Friday, July 20, 2012

Food Grade Machining

The team at ALNO Product Services have vast experience in machining food grade Stainless Steel. Our team machines a free machining chromium-nickel austenitic stainless steel with good strength and good corrosion resistance, as in the annealed condition.

The characterized of our material offers excellent machine-ablity and non galling properties due to its higher sulphur content, which has the effect of lowering slightly its corrosion resistance. It is however, fairly resistant to general atmospheric corrosion, general foodstuffs, sterilizing solutions, dyestuffs, most organic chemicals, plus some inorganic chemicals but has very limited resistance to acids.

Our Food Grade stainless steel cannot be hardened by thermal treatment, but strength and hardness can be increased substantially by cold working, with subsequent reduction in ductility.
It is used primarily for production runs involving extensive machining, or complex parts requiring excellent machine-ability.

Our Stainless Steel in not our use in food production yet it has been utlised in Architectural Components, Processing Equipment, Dairy Equipment, Dying Industry, Hardware and Kitchenware manufacturing and allied industries. We commonly used it in the manufacture of  Bolts, Washers, Nuts, Bushes, Gears, Shafts, Valve Bodies and Fittings to name a few components.

Thus material non magnetic in the annealed condition, but can become mildly magnetic following heavy cold working furthermore annealing is required to rectify if necessary.

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