Since 1992, Arch City Steel & Alloy, Inc., has been supplying metal products to industrial customers in Fenton, Missouri. These include carbon steel, stainless steel, alloy steel, and nickel alloys. Its customers are those people who receive that phone call when something is not right – plant engineers, maintenance managers, and purchasers. They know how a small issue can become a big problem. A crew stands around on overtime. A furnace sits cold. A customer starts asking questions nobody wants to answer. Arch City Steel & Alloy keeps grade 310 stainless tubes in stock so those buyers have one less thing to worry about.Heat is tough on metals. Take grades like 304 above their heat tolerance levels, and the metals will scale, warp, and weaken. The last inspected components will be worn out even before the next shutdown. Grade 310 performs well since the alloy contains about 25% chromium and 20% nickel. This makes it corrosion-resistant at high temperatures. For this reason, 310 is used in furnace parts, heat exchangers, burners, kilns, and heat-treating equipment. Buyers searching for 310 stainless steel tube sources often face long lead times from mills because of large minimum orders.
A company representative said, “Nobody calls us when things are going well. They call because a tube cracked in a furnace or another supplier just pushed the ship date back three weeks. Our job is to give a straight answer fast. Do we have the 310, what size is it, and when can it ship? If we don’t have it, we say so and help find another way to get the job done.” The representative added that buyers should always ask for the mill test report and confirm that the grade, heat number and specification match the order before any tube goes into service.
Grade 310 is only one part of what the company carries. Arch City Steel & Alloy has in its inventory stainless steel pipe, sheets and plates; 321 and 416 tubes and bars; carbon and chrome steel pipes and welding fittings; 4130 chrome molybdenum tubing; alloy mechanical tubing; and nickel alloy pipe, tubes, sheets, plates, round bars, sheets and coils. The crew accepts orders for uncommon sizes and delivers specialized products not on its inventory list. Plants holding surplus metal can also sell it to the company through its Sell Steel program. That turns idle stock sitting in a corner of the yard back into cash.
About Arch City Steel & Alloy, Inc.
Arch City Steel & Alloy, Inc. is a steel and nickel alloy distributor in Fenton, Missouri, and has served industrial customers since 1992. Arch City offers stainless steel, carbon steel, chrome moly, alloy steel and nickel alloys in pipe, tube, bar, sheet, plate and fittings. Engineers and purchasers who usually have to wait for a new mill run from 316 stainless steel tube manufacturers can turn to 316 stainless steel tube suppliers like Arch City, where 316, 310, 304, and many other grades may be available from stock. For more information, please see https://archcitysteel.com/ .