Sumitomo Metals Gets Major Order for High End Stainless Boiler Tube

Sumitomo Metal Industries announced on Wednesday the firm and Sumitomo Corporation got more than 3,000 tonnes order of high grade stainless boiler tube, TP347HFG from Hitachi Power Europe. Sumitomo Metals provides the tube products for heat exchanger of coal based power plant in South Africa. TP347HFG grade tube has both steam resistant oxidation characteristics and high temperature durability. The product is the first Japanese material to be registered as standard material for American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The order is the largest lot in the history of TP347HFG, which the firm sold total 7,136 tonnes since 1982. The firm supplies the product from July to July 2010. The firm tries to expand the supply after 1.5 times output capacity expansion to annual 18,000 tonnes in October 2007.