Stainless Steel Sheet/Plate
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Stainless Steel Sheet/Plate |
In Middle east countries the industrialisation is at an all time high in the last 2 decades, Especially in Saudi Arabia and Qatar many industries like petrochemical, Fertilizer, Chemical processing and food processing industries are set up. Al Jubail in KSA has become the largest industrial development city in the world which was earlier Mexico till 2019. Either construction or industrial development in all high quality steel play a major role.
Without steel no infrastructure can be built up, Major steel producing countries are China, Japan, India and USA., Steel from the USA and Japan is too expensive as well as shipping cost to UAE and Saudi Arabia is also quite high compared to China and India. In China there are renowned mills they produce steel plate like BaoSteel, Leeco Steel and in India there are very large size manufacturers like Jindal, SAIL, AM/NS, POSCO and Outokumpu, Plates, Sheets and coils comes in variety of steel and grades like stainless steel, mild steel, alloy steel, carbon steel, Corten steel, nickel alloys and duplex stainless steel.
Each type of steel is used in different applications, for example carbon steel plates are used in ship building, bridges, structures, and construction. There are many grades comes which are mainly used for Shipbuilding. Such as ASTM A131 Grade A, B, C, D, AH32, DH32, EH32 and IS 2062 E250, E 275, E350, E410 and E450. At the same time stainless steel is used to create chemical storage tanks, chemical processing plants and other marine environments.
Corten steel plates are also known as weathering steel and used in outdoor structures, planters, facades, decorative outdoor panels. Nickel alloy plates are used in highly corrosive and high temperature applications due to high nickel content. These Nickel Plates cost are very high compared to SS Plates. Inconel 625, Alloy 825 and Hastelloy C276 are the most popular nickel grades. Due to massive construction and upcoming industries the demand of steel is increasing in gulf countries as well as based on market research conducted by a renowned magazine steel info the demand of steel plate will increase 35% in next five years.
There are many distributors and suppliers of steel plates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Few of them are stockists and dealers of big brands like Nippon Yakin, SSAB for Hardox plates, Nippon Sumitomo, JSL for Stainless steel sheets and HR coils. Finding the local suppliers in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, Jeddah, Riyadh, Muscat saves lot of cost and delivery time. However before buying the sell plates buyers should ask MTC ( Mill test certificate), Batch no. and origin of raw material. These documents are very essential to get genuine and prime quality material.
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