As Sandvik’s preferred UK partner for the distribution of duplex stainless steel and special grades of hollow bar, we are able to offer customers improved availability and access to stock.
Our investment in Sanmac™ 316L and Sanmac™ 2205 hollow bar stock makes this product form more readily available in small quantities as an alternative to solid bar.
Using hollow bars instead of solid bars can help you to achieve direct savings in material and tooling costs, reduced machining time and increased productivity.
By starting with a near-net shape hollow bar, less metal is lost as low-value swarf and obviously less tooling is consumed too. Therefore, there can be immediate input cost savings when using this more sophisticated product form.
More significantly, reducing machining time or totally eliminating machining steps can dramatically improve productivity. This can either be valued as reduced machining time or cost for a given part, or also as higher throughput when machines are fully-loaded.
Finally, replacing solid bars with stainless steel hollow bars eliminates the need for trepanning when producing components with a central bore, which causes material to work harden and is detrimental to subsequent machining operations.
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The combination of hollow bars in Sanmac™ alloys creates the maximum possible productivity gains for machinists.
What are the advantages with Sanmac™?
Langley Alloys has a solution to suit your requirements.
Stainless Steel Hollow bars from stock:
– Sanmac 316L and Sanmac 2205 ex-stock
In-house deep-hole boring:
– I/D up to 200mm (8″)
Potential for special grades:
– Super duplex and nickel alloys
– from production or bored bar
