Sandvik secures large orders for nuclear tubing

Citation

(1999), "Sandvik secures large orders for nuclear tubing", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 46 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.1999.12846dab.009

Sandvik secures large orders for nuclear tubing

Sandvik secures large orders for nuclear tubing

Keywords: Sandvik, Steel, Tubing

Swedish steelmaker AB Sandvik Steel has announced that it has secured two large orders for steam generator tubing for nuclear power plants in the USA and Belgium (Plate 1).

With a combined value of well over $15 million (120 MSEK), both orders are from new customers and are seen by Sandvik as an acknowledgement of their ability to manufacture and to meet the stringent and ever increasing quality standards of the nuclear industry. Sandvik Steel has the experience from having been selected for over 30 years as the main tube supplier by many of the world's leading steam generator fabricators.

Plate 1 Packing of steam generator tubes for shipment from Sandvik Steel

The larger of the two orders, for 26,000 tubes totalling 520,000 metres, has been placed by Ansaldo Energia in Milan for replacement of steam generators at the Palo Verde power station in Arizona, USA.

The second order is equally significant since it is Sandvik's first order from a Japanese steam generator fabricator. Ordered by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, the requirement is for 16,000 nickel base alloy, nuclear quality tubes which will be used in steam generators being built as part of a scheduled replacement programme at the Tihange 2 plant in Belgium.

The orders are due for delivery progressively over the next two years.

Mats Tynell, Sandvik Steel's General Manager -- Steam Generator Tubing comments, "This is the first time a foreign supplier has successfully competed with Japanese suppliers for this kind of order. It will provide a good opportunity to demonstrate our quality and will improve our prospects of delivering steam generator tubing to Japan in the future."