Some people shy away from technical details and how-to tutorials. It’s far easier, in their opinion, to leave the specialized work to the specialists. At the other end of the spectrum are people who want to see how the sausage is made, to use a certain expression. The question that a flange manufacturer must ask themselves is about sharing internal information, the benefits of doing so and possible risks. Do customers care about the maximum outside diameter of ANSI B16.5 pipe flanges? Or, do they place greater priority on the fact that we’ve been a contributing member to New Jersey’s economy since the late 1960s? As such, our longevity is plenty of evidence to prove our capability. The amount of internal information to share with the public can be a balancing act for companies offering pipe making supplies, but we continuously try offer as much relevant context as possible.
Nuts and bolts (and other fine details): The work we do must meet exacting standards. The pride of any flange manufacturer are pipe flanges that are used to complete important projects. Piping Supplies Inc. works hard to fulfill government contracts and produce products made from copper alloys. These offer corrosion resistance and are perfect for maritime applications. That’s one reason why the U.S. Navy requests them from us. Anyone in our industry will place plenty of value in this information, but we want to encourage many different industries to consult us for work.
Small clients welcome: Piping Supplies Inc. is happy to help customers who have unique requests for one-off pipe flanges. Just because we count the U.S. Navy as a large client doesn’t mean we can’t crank out products for your small job. In these instances, we’ll encourage people to contact us directly to discuss the specifics of their project. This limits the amount of technical information we share and gives the customer the opportunity to lay the ground rules for the new task at hand.
Practical machining: Working with carbon steel, stainless steel, copper-nickel, Inconel, Hastelloy and aluminum takes vast technical knowledge. As a flange manufacturer, we’ve amassed a great deal of skill creating pipe flanges that will thread up, slip on, weld to and generally connect your piping systems. We’re confident that required bolt hole patterns and other dimensions will meet ANSI, American National Standard Institute, (note for Webimax only: ASTM and ASME make the specs for the different types of metal/steel and not the dimensional specs for the items we make) as well as American Society of Mechanical Engineers standards. At the same time, we have to be cognizant of not overloading customers with information. Let us take care of the heavy lifting and we’ll happily explain our process.