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Sandvik billets and blooms

Sandvik billets and blooms
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Sandvik billets and blooms

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Introduction
Sandvik specializes in providing a diverse range of billets and blooms, highlighting their technical expertise and ability to deliver customized solutions with consistent material properties. Their global reach ensures they can meet specific customer needs with a wide variety of products and material grades.
Product Specifications
Sandvik offers over 600 grades of stainless and specialty steel products. Billets are available in multiple sizes and conditions, including unground, spot ground, fully ground, and peel turned. They also provide extrusion billets that meet high material property and surface standards.
Quality Assurance
Sandvik maintains high-quality standards through a comprehensive quality assurance program compliant with ISO 9001. Billets undergo ultrasonic and eddy current testing to ensure quality.
Research and Development
Sandvik operates one of Europe's largest R&D facilities for stainless steels and special alloys, facilitating full-scale production trials and product testing. This has resulted in the development of new steel grades with enhanced properties.
Applications
Sandvik's materials are utilized across various industries, including chemical and petrochemical, offshore, nuclear, food, and pulp & paper. They offer a wide range of austenitic and duplex stainless steels and high alloy materials.
Production Process
The production process at Sandvik involves melting in an electric arc furnace, followed by AOD converter and ladle furnace processes. They also use continuous casting and vacuum arc remelting (VAR) for producing high-quality materials.
Environmental Commitment
Sandvik is dedicated to environmental sustainability, holding ISO 14001 certification and integrating environmental considerations into all business activities.
Conclusion
Sandvik positions itself as a dependable partner in the steel industry, offering high-quality, customized products with extensive technical support and a strong emphasis on research and development.
Overview
The document details Sandvik's production processes and global presence, including manufacturing capabilities like a hydraulic forging press and billet mill, and provides contact information for Sandvik's offices worldwide.
Manufacturing Specifications
Sandvik uses a hydraulic forging press with a maximum force of 1,800 tonnes. The billet mill is designed for rolling round and square billets under 200 mm. The production process includes billet conditioning with operations such as straightening, cutting, peel turning, grinding, marking, and quality inspection.
Production Routes
The primary production routes include the use of an electric arc furnace (75 tons), high-frequency furnace (10 tons), AOD converter (75 tons), ladle furnace (75 tons), continuous casting, ingot casting, billet mill, forging press, blooming mill, vacuum arc remelting, heat treatment, and quality inspection.
Global Presence
Sandvik has a significant global presence with offices in numerous countries, each equipped with contact phone and fax numbers for customer service and sales.
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Sandvik billets and blooms – the perfect choice

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Sandvik billets and blooms Let us be your reliable partner! We offer… ... technical expertise. Technical support and advice are always available from our product specialists. If you have any questions about material selection, processing or our product program, please contact us through our Sales Units or via our website www.smt.sandvik.com/billets We have a wide range of products, sizes and material grades – many of which have been specially developed to meet particular demands and applications. Close cooperation with customers to meet individual needs has always been part of the Sandvik way...

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Sandvik billets and blooms – a strong link in the chain Sandvik offers you a wide range of stainless and specialty steel products. We have a great variety of steel grades in our programme. With high exibility in raw material sourcing and our willingness to nd solutions, we can produce tailor-made new grades to meet specic market, country and customer requirements. Sandvik Group The Sandvik Group is a global high technology enterprise with 38,000 employees in 130 countries. Sandvik’s operations are concentrated on its three core businesses of Sandvik Tooling, Sandvik Mining and Construction, and...

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Sandvik billets – advantages • Wide range of stainless steel grades and specialty steels – Sandvik produces more than 600 grades. Experience and know-how in special grades Complete size range of billets in sizes 80–350 mm. Larger sizes are being offered on request Close cooperation with customers Full service and technical support Global sales and marketing organization Strong research and development organization Quality system approval to ISO 9001 Sandvik produces blooms and billets in a range of stainless steels, duplex steels and high alloyed materials for customers to further process, by...

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Billets for tube and prole extrusion Extrusion billets are used to manufacture tube and prole with a high demand on material properties and surface standard. As a leading producer of extrusion billets, Sandvik has many years experience in this eld, which has proven to be a prerequisite for uniformity and consistent high quality. We supply extrusion billets in a size range of 80–325 mm round in the peel turned condition with polished or belt-ground surfaces. An efcient production route involves continuous casting followed by rolling or forging in a single stage to the nished diameter. We offer...

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Sandvik grades for your applications Sandvik’s wide range of austenitic and duplex stainless steels and high alloy materials are used in equipment in many different industries such as: • Chemical and petrochemical • Oil & gas / Offshore • Nuclear • Food • Pulp & paper Sizes and tolerances Square billets We produce round-cornered square billets in the unground, spot ground or fully ground condition, as well as round billets in the peel turned or black condition – depending on steel grade and size. Special grades are normally supplied in the fully ground or peel turned condition. Size range, mm:...

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Stainless steel grades EN No. Sandvik grade Type of steel AISI UNS Round Square/Rect Concast Extrusion billets billets blooms billets Sanmac 304/304L Sanmac 316/316L Sanmac 1.4435 Sanmac 1.4571 Sanmac 1.4541 Some grades require a minimum quantity of AOD heat (50–60 tonnes) or one HF heat (5–10 tonnes). Contact your Sandvik sales ofce regarding delivery quantities for grades in which you are interested. Sandvik, Sanmac, Sanicro, SAF 2304, SAF 2205 and SAF 2507 are trademarks owned by Sandvik AB. 253MA and 254SMO are trademarks owned by Outokumpu Stainless. Recommendations are for guidance only,...

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Sanmac materials are easy to machine Through collaboration with Sandvik Coromant, the world leading producer of cemented carbide inserts, we have gained experience of chip forming during machining of stainless steels, which is unrivalled in the steel industry. The outstanding properties of Sanmac grades have been discovered by many manufacturers of stainless steel components such as anges, valves, rings, discs etc. Modied inclusion contents, accurate chemistry and controlled production are the secret behind these materials. The high level of machinability has been achieved without compromising...

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Sandvik production routes for primary products Sandvik’s production plants are designed specially for the efcient manufacture of long product in stainless steel and high alloy materials, in round, square and rectangular sections. High frequency furnace 10 ton Ingot casting Continuous casting Blooming mill Forging press Billet mill Heat treatment Billet conditioning Quality inspection After melting in a 75 tonne electric arc furnace, steel is tapped into a ladle and transferred to the AOD (Argon Oxygen Decarburization) converter, where the principal metallurgical process is performed. The steel...

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Sales and service all over the world Argentina SANDVIK ARGENTINA S.A. Buenos Aires Phone 011-4484 32 41, Fax 011-4482 46 19 Finland SANDVIK TAMROCK OY Vanda Phone 09-87 06 61, Fax 09-87 06 62 30 Australia SANDVIK AUSTRALIA Pty. Ltd. Wetherill Park, N.S.W. 2164 Phone 02-98 28 05 00, Fax 02-98 28 05 05 Austria SANDVIK IN AUSTRIA Ges.m.b.H. Wien Phone 1-277 370, Fax 1-277 37-225 Germany SANDVIK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY GmbH Düsseldorf Phone 0211-50 27-0, Fax 0211-50 27-666 Middle East SANDVIK DIVISION MIDDLE EAST Milan, Italy Phone +39 02-3070 5312 Fax +39 02-7005 60991 Netherlands SANDVIK BENELUX B.V....

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