Fine Tubes Ltd - Stainless Steel Tubes, High Pressure Tubing

Stainless Steel Tubes | High Pressure Tubing

Precision seamless and welded tubes for the most challenging environments

Fine Tubes can offer over 65 years experience in precision metal engineering. We support our customers from the initial design, the material selection through to the production, test certification and delivery of the high performance tubes we manufacture. Our reputation for quality and reliability, drive for innovation in materials, exceptional customer service and continuous improvement underlines our strong commitment to high quality precision tubing. The tubular products we develop are for critical tolerance applications in extreme conditions.

Fine Tubes manufactures tubes in two principle forms:

Seamless stainless steel tubing, nickel alloy tubes and titanium tubes as straight tubes or coiled
tubing from 3mm (0.040in) outer diameter (OD) to 31mm (1½in) OD.

Welded tubes, welded and drawn or seam free stainless steel tubes and nickel tubing as
straight tubes or coiled tubing from 3mm (0.118in) OD to 28mm (1¼in) OD.

Available profile tubes include not only round but also rectangular tubes, square tubes, oval tubes and elliptical and other profiles. The standards and specifications for these tubes and coils are extremely high and serve a wide range of markets.

Fine Tubes can manufacture and supply stainless steel tubes in a wide range of grades in seamless or welded tube form from less than 1mm (0.04”) to 50.8mm (2”) Outside Diameter. Seamless and welded stainless steel tubes are supplied in straight lengths up to 20m (65.6ft) whereas welded tubes as coils with orbital joints can be up to 10,000m (33,000 ft) long.

Fine Tubes supply top quality high pressure tubing to a range of industries with the tubes being rated up to 60,000psi operating pressure and with tensile strengths greater than 220ksi (1,515MPa)

Fine Tubes supplies aerospace tubes to many of today's leading aerospace programmes where excellent weight: strength ratio materials such as Titanium 3Al2.5, 6Al4 and 425, CP and also high temperature Nickel Alloys, stainless grades such as 21-6-9 are required.

Aerospace tubes are used as mechanical tubes, hydraulic tubes and high pressure tubes for torque control rods, hydraulic and pneumatic control systems, landing gear, waveguides, convoluting, ducting systems and cryogenic heat exchangers. We have achieved Nadcap approval for heat treatment, NDT and laboratory testing of our tubing. We have also achieved many customer approvals, including Airbus & Rolls-Royce.

Oil and Gas Tubes

Fine Tubes’ oil and gas tubing are used in the most challenging subsea and down hole conditions in seawater and sour oil well environments. Materials used are Austenitic, Super Austenitic, Duplex, Super Duplex, Titanium and Nickel Alloys. Seamless tubes are used for hydraulic tube and instrumentation tubing and chemical injection tubes, in onshore control panels, topside processing facilities, on subsea manifolds and templates up to 2,500m below the sea’s surface. Seam welded & redrawn tubes with orbital joints are used for subsea umbilical's, subsea control lines and chemical injection tubes. We can produce straight tubes or tube coils up to 10,000 m long.

Nuclear and Power Tubes

Supplying the nuclear and power industry since the 1970s with nuclear fuel cans our product range has expanded to support of PWR, CANDU and Fossil Fuel Power Generation. Applications include fuel cladding, control rods, leak detection, tie bars, canister tubes, poison tubes, vent tubes, boiler tubes, ERW tubes, heater tubes and C tubes, absorber tubes as well as control and instrumentation tubing.

For the power industry generally, we provide a range of products from turbine, steam generator tubes, condenser tubes or cooling tubes to hollow conductors, heat exchanger tubes to FGD applications. Our profile tubes include rectangular tubes, square tubes and other profiles.

Chemical Process Tubes

Utilising Fine Tubes’ unique strength of being both a welded tube and seamless tube manufacturer gives our customers complete product flexibility in choosing between a welded tube, a welded and cold drawn tube, a seam free tube or a completely seamless tube. In the chemical process industry our tubes are used in applications for the shell and tube heat exchanger tubes and flow meter tubes, tubes for measurement systems, hydraulic tubes, pneumatic tubes, condenser tubes as well as control and instrumentation tubing, paper production tubes and tubes in acetic acid plants.

Medical tubes

Fine Tubes offer medical tubes used in implants, surgical and dental instruments such as biopsy needles, coronary stents, endoscopy equipment, Marknagel, cannulas, spinal cages and trauma nails in stainless steel and titanium alloys. High levels of ID and OD surface finish, tolerance and ovality controls yield precision tubes at competitive prices versus alternative gun drilled products. For Medical tubes excellent strength to weight ratios, highest levels in microbiological corrosion resistance and fatigue life are critical. Our cold drawn seamless tubes offer the added benefit of extremely high consistency, and can be supplied in 10ft (3m) lengths optimized to work efficiently with bar feed set-ups.

High Purity Tubes

Fine Tubes supply tubes covering all the standard sizes required for manufacturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) columns. Our HPLC tubes is at the forefront of technology used in chemistry and biochemistry, providing unparalleled peak performance thanks to the innovative manufacturing and process control methods we’ve developed. This market requires equipment with specialty smooth ID and OD conditions, and we offer tubes at an Ra of 0.35 microns ‘as drawn’, and below 0.20 microns Ra after electro polishing. Our Ultra High Purity (UHP) tubes are used throughout both the semiconductor wafer processing and medical industries. Similar to HPLC these UHP clean bore tubes are offered ‘as drawn’ at 0.40 microns Ra and below 0.20 microns Ra after electro polishing.