Stainless Steel Companies

[adam]

Can anyone recommend a company where HPLC column vendors get their stainless steel. I have called a few HPLC column companies but they don't want to give this information out. Didn't have much luck surfing the internet either.

I need to contact a company that makes the steel because I have some questions about the properties of steel that only they could provide.

Thanks in advance. Adam

[DR]

I'd look for manufacturers of "precision 316 stainless steel tubing"

[Mark Tracy]

Good luck. Even our suppliers don't tell us much. One column hardware vendor says "Germany" the other "Japan."

[SIELC_Tech]

Almost all columns are made out of SS 316. You can get content from any SS manufacturer. You can try to contact McMaster-Carr and they will send you a spec for SS 316. I gueas you ale looking for Ni, Cr and other additives
Base on the look of hardware a lot of companies are using Isolation Technologies hardware (at least that’s what they were using originally)). It might be that right now a lot of SS as 100 ft. tubing comes from Asia (or at least the source for SS is Asia)

Regards,

Vlad

[adam]

Thank You!

Isolation Technologies was a hit.