What is Clad steel
WHAT IS CLAD steel?
The Power of Clad: Joining Dissimilar Metals for Better Results
Clad steel offers supreme ability to resist abrasion and collision. Haina Science uses plasma fine cladding technology to offer steel of top class performance at a reasonable price.
What is clad?
Clad metals are defined as two or more distinct metals or alloys metallurgically bonded together to achieve better functions.
One of the first known industrial clad applications was bonded nickel to carbon steel for railroad tank cars in 1930s, allowing safer transport of caustic materials.
Today, clad metals are used in many applications across critical global industries such as aerospace, chemical processing, oil & gas, mining, transportation, etc. The most common consumer use of clad is in cookware. The pots and pans you may find in your kitchen use aluminum and stainless steel to take advantage of both metals.
How to clad?
Understanding how to clad, using precise parameters—often with extreme pressure, velocity, or explosive load to form the bond—allows clad suppliers to help industrial businesses unlock the desirable characteristics of clad metal with the cost-efficiency and protective qualities compared to solid metals.
Common welding technologies include explosion welding, which joins metal plates together in a solid state while retaining each metal’s mechanical, electrical, and corrosion properties; roll bonding, which is a solid-state welding process that passes two or more metals through a pair of flat rollers to bond distinct metals; or welding overlay which melts a cladding layer onto the surface of a similar metal to form a stronger base material.
Clad metals most often consist of clad steel, which joins steel or stainless steel with reactive metals and nickel, copper or aluminum alloys. Clad metal is then designed into cylinders, plates, tube sheets, and transition joints used for equipment like heat exchangers, tanks, pressure vessels, piping and elbow systems, and others.
Every clad metal application, every customer interaction, and every order are opportunities to demonstrate our commitment to quality. We are ready to work together with our customers, from specification through delivery and support.
