Product traceability is an essential quality criterion. This also applies to longitudinally welded stainless steel pipes. With this in mind, BUTTING has optimized its manufacturing process for pipes from the coil. In the future, pipes produced from the coil will be marked using a new procedure. This offers the customer one crucial advantage: the marking is permanently easy to read.
BUTTING had already addressed the issue of pipe marking some time ago. Various new procedures were analyzed and extensively tested, based on customer requirements. The objective also included guaranteeing traceability and preventing product counterfeiting.
This new marking brings distinct advantages. The marking can be selected individually and variably; the quality of the characters is very good and therefore easy for everyone to read. The marking on the pipe is permanent, even after chemical treatment of the surface, for example by pickling.
Integration into the production facilities started in mid-February and will be continued step by step. In this way, newly manufactured products will be marked on selected production machines using the new marking process and will gradually come onto the market.
