Cut raw material cost by 10%–50%
Relyon Metals supplies explosion-bonded stainless clad plate, cold-rolled and hot-rolled stainless clad plate, stainless clad pipe, and a full range of stainless steel materials — engineered so the corrosion-resistant surface never separates from the steel that carries the load.
Have you ever thought that the material you are using can, while keeping the same safety and the same quality and the same dimensions, save you 10%–50% of the raw material cost simply by replacing part of it with another material — and at the same time give it the performance of that other metal? Then you must not miss it: stainless clad plate.
Single-sided clad is normally 30%–50% cheaper than the solid stainless it replaces. Double-sided cold-rolled clad is the conservative case: some gauges save about 10%, and the saving grows with thickness and with the choice of core material — up to 50%. That is why we quote a range: 10%–50% cheaper than the material it replaces.
Two metals bonded into one plate. The base — carbon steel, low-alloy steel, or a more economical stainless such as 201 — carries the load and the pressure; a stainless or nickel-alloy cladding layer is metallurgically fused onto the face that meets the medium. It is a bond, not a coating — ≥210 MPa shear strength at the interface, verified 100% by ultrasonic testing.
How clad plate is madeNot sure which construction your project needs? Send us the medium, the pressure and the thickness and we will tell you — single-sided, double-sided or explosion-bonded.
Thickness shown is the total sheet — base steel plus cladding, not the cladding alone. As a rule: thin and double-sided goes cold-rolled; 4–16 mm single-sided goes hot-rolled; heavy sections go to explosion bonding.
Beyond stainless. The same explosion-bonding line joins titanium, copper, aluminium, nickel alloys, zirconium, tantalum and niobium onto carbon or low-alloy steel — with the standard shear and service-temperature limits shown pair by pair. See the metal-pair table
Three product families that cover most corrosion-resistant projects — a cost-optimised clad solution, a pipe solution for long-distance service, and the ordinary stainless materials a fabricator needs alongside them.
A corrosion-resistant alloy fused onto a carbon or low-alloy steel base. Single-sided or double-sided, explosion bonded or hot-rolled, in the thickness combinations your design calls for.
The same composite idea formed into a tube: a corrosion-resistant bore on a pressure-bearing steel wall. Metallurgically bonded clad pipe and clad square and rectangle tube, plus mechanically lined pipe where the service allows it.
A stocked range of stainless steel in every common product form, from everyday 304 and 316L through to duplex, super duplex and nickel alloys — with the material certificates to go with them.
In a solid stainless vessel or pipeline, only the surface that touches the medium needs alloy. Everything behind it is there to hold pressure — and carbon steel does that job just as well, for a fraction of the price.
The right steel grade depends on what the metal touches — chlorides, acids, temperature and flow. We supply the full ladder, and we will tell you honestly when the cheaper steel grade is the correct one.
Anywhere a carbon steel wall would corrode away and an all-alloy wall would cost too much.
A clad plate fails in service for one reason: a bond that was never fully bonded. That is why the whole surface — not a sample of it — goes through ultrasonic inspection before it leaves the works, and why every delivery travels with a full material test certificate.
Third-party inspection by SGS, BV, TÜV or Intertek can be arranged at your nominated stage of production, at cost, on request.
Tropical humidity, coastal salt spray and freeze-thaw cycles are hard on ordinary steel. For export markets worldwide we routinely supply 304 and 316L plate with passivated and protected surfaces, 2205 duplex for chloride and seawater service, and moisture-barrier export packing specified for the long ocean voyage rather than the domestic run.
Tell us the medium, the temperature, the pressure and the quantity. We will come back with the steel grade, the thickness combination, a weight calculation and a price — usually within one working day.
