STLIX Academy
STLIX Academy
A technical reference for buyers of metal raw materials: standards, reading quality certificates, and product selection criteria. Written for those who buy and fabricate, not those who browse.
Stainless steel sheet prices in Egypt: how the price of a 304 or 316 sheet is set
Sheets are sold by the kilo: weight × today's price per kg. The six factors behind the price, a weight table, and how to get today's quote.
Stainless steel grades guide: 201, 304, 316, 310 and 430
Composition, density, magnetism, temperature limits and price tier of the seven grades sold in Egypt — and when the cheaper grade is a false economy.
Product range: tubes, hollow sections and sheets
Sizes, wall thicknesses, grades and production routes for every family, with weight tables and dimensioned sections.
Welded vs. seamless tube: where they differ
Where the two overlap, where they part ways, and why welded is the specification on sanitary lines — and when we recommend seamless.
How to read a mill test certificate, line by line
Chemistry against the specification range, mechanical properties, delivery condition, heat number — and the signs of a bad certificate.
ASTM A249 requirements for welded stainless tube
Mandatory production route, chemistry limits, minimum mechanical properties and the tests every tube must pass.
Tools
Stainless Steel Weight Calculator
Eleven shapes — hollow sections, sanitary tube, DN and schedule pipe, sheets, coils and bars — with full reference tables in the sizes used in the Egyptian market.
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