904L superior resistance to localized attack pipe prefabrication
Stainless steel 904L / 1.4539 material can be used to make hot and cold rolled sheet and strip, semi-finished products, bars, rolled wire and profiles, as well as seamless and welded pipes for pressure applications.
The low carbon version of Type 904 stainless steel also offers users other benefits including non-magnetic properties and greater corrosion properties than Types 316L and 317L. It is also highly resistant to pitting corrosion in chloride solutions and is highly resistant to crevice and stress corrosion cracking. It is widely used in chemical plants, refineries, petrochemical plants, bleaching tanks in the paper industry, gas desulfurization units, seawater, sulfuric and phosphoric applications. Due to the low C content, resistance to intergranular corrosion is also guaranteed under welding conditions.