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First Purchase From China? Five Things You Should Know.
1. Have a basic understanding of the products you are about to purchase. After the Spring Festival in 2023, many of our customers complain that the prices of stainless steel and nickel-based alloys have risen too much. And the price gap is particularly large. This is mainly due to the high price...Read more -
What is Inconel 718?
Is Inconel 718 a stainless steel? Inconel 718 is a precipitation-hardening nickel-chromium alloy containing significant amounts of iron, columbium, and molybdenum, along with lesser amounts of aluminum and titanium. Inconel 718 materials maintain high strength and good ductility up to 1300°F ...Read more -
What Is API 6ACRA?
API 6A CRA is a supplement to API 6A, covering a group of high-performance alloys – specifically age-hardened nickel alloys, which includes Alloy 718, Alloy 725 and Alloy 925 as well as Alloys 716, 935 and 945. From a material supplier’s perspective, it covers the most relevant aspects of the me...Read more -
Hardness Conversion Calculator: HRC, HB, HV and HRB
BRINELL (HB) ROCKWELL-C (HRC) ROCKWELL-B (HRB) VICKERS(HV) STRENGTH (N/mm2) 800 72 780 71 760 70 752 69 745 68 746 67 735 66 711 65 695 64 681 63 658 62 ...Read more -
Gauge To MM, Gauge To Inch
SWG INCHES MM SWG INCHES MM SWG INCHES MM 7/0 0.500 12.700 13 0.092 2.337 32 0.0108 0.274 6/0 0.464 11.786 14 0.080 2.032 33 0.0100 0.254 5/0 0.432 10.973 15 0.072 1.829 34 0.0092 0.234 4/0 0.400 10.160 16...Read more -
What is Inconel 601?
Inconel 601 alloy is a nickel-chromium-iron-based solid-solution strengthened alloy, which has good high temperature corrosion resistance and oxidation resistance, excellent cold and hot processing and welding performance, and has satisfactory thermal strength and high plasticity below 700 °C. Th...Read more -
What is Inconel 600/UNS N06600?
The Inconel 600 nickel alloy, a solid solution strengthened alloy with nickel, chrome and iron as principal elements, is a standard engineering material suitable for heat resistant and corrosion resistant applications. Owing to excellent mechanical property and strength as well as great cold ...Read more -
What is Inconel 625?
Inconel 625 is a corrosion and oxidation resistant nickel alloy that is used both for its high strength and outstanding aqueous corrosion resistance. Its outstanding strength and toughness are due to the addition of niobium which acts with the molybdenum to stiffen the alloy’s matrix. Alloy 625 h...Read more -
What is Stainless Steel?
Stainless Steel is an extremely versatile metal that is selected by many manufacturers for its broadly desirable characteristics. Contrary to what most people believe, the term “Stainless Steel” doesn’t refer to one particular alloy. Rather, the general term is used to refer to a variety of iron-...Read more -
What are high temp alloys?
High temp alloy is the alloy based on the element of Fe, Ni and Co, a kind of metal material that can work for a long time under the action of high temperature above 600℃ and certain stress; It has good high-temperature strength, oxidation resistance, corrosion resistanc...Read more -
Effects of Alloying Elements in Nickel-Base Alloys
The different elements that make up an alloy can drastically change the mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and the metal’s microstructure. While chromium, nickel, molybdenum, iron may be the primary alloying elements, other elements like tungsten, carbon, alumin...Read more -
Classification of nickel alloys
Nickel will alloy readily with many other metals, including chromium, iron, molybdenum and copper. This allows for a wide variety of alloys that demonstrate outstanding resistance to corrosion and high-temperature scaling, exceptional high-temperature strength and other ...Read more
