The ferritic structure of SEA-CURE® stainless steel provides a high strength/low work hardening material with good ductility. These properties allow high design stress limits with good fabrication characteristics. Because of the nickel addition, SEA-CURE® has a lower ductile to brittle transition temperature than similar ferritic steels without nickel additions.

Advantages of High Performance Stainless Steel

• Full cold working of the weld using tooling on both OD and ID surfaces prior to annealing ensure optimum homogenization
• Can be used as an alternative to several materials
• Cost-effective in high chloride applications and where the potential for microbiological influenced corrosion exists
• Special anneal & water quench dissolves secondary phases present in the strip material and prevents the re-formation of them
• Chemical pickle and passivation removes surface oxides and protects against chromium depletion, by creating a chromium rich surface layer.
• 20 years of commercial history with an outstanding performance record, accepted by both Section III and Section VIII of the ASME Boiler Code
• Special anneal & water quench dissolution of secondary phases that may be present in the strip material and to prevent the re-formation of them
• Ensured by proprietary chemistry for optimum corrosion resistance, developed by Plymouth Tube Company

• Technical and customer support for tube processing based upon 25+ years of experience and 100+ Million feet of shipments.

SEA-CURE® stainless is a patented alloy made exclusively by Plymouth Tube Company. Its composition is given in Table 1. Plymouth manufactures tubing in sizes from 1/2 to 2-1/2 inches (12-65 mm) in diameter, and in continuous lengths up to 150 feet (45 m). To produce feedwater heater tubing Plymouth has state-of-the-art U-bending and stress relieving equipment. Such tubing is used in fossil, nuclear, geothermal and hydroelectric power stations throughout the world