Manufacturing, Processing and Uses of Superaustenitic Stainless Steels

The final building block related to the understanding of superaustenitic stainless steels concerns the techniques by which these materials can be produced, manufactured, processed and brought to market. It is known how the material influences the production process dedicated to it, and also how in some cases it is the process that determines whether the material can be produced or not. The manufacturing and processing characteristics of each material then force the choice of the most suitable process for it, the exclusion of its production by certain techniques, and also the development of technologies that can process it in a way that has never been done before. In this context, the knowledge of the properties of the material is as fundamental and important as knowing the aspects of each technological process to be employed in the production cycle. Manufacturing and processing possibilities strongly influence the type of product that can be realized and, in combination with material characteristics and associated cost, contribute to the determination of the reference markets.