The difference between 304 stainless steel mirror tube and industrial tube

Production process
‌304 stainless steel mirror tube: It is usually produced by cold rolling or cold drawing. The raw material is round steel, which is perforated into a tube billet and then formed by cold rolling or cold drawing. This process makes the tube wall seamless and the surface smooth.
‌Industrial tube: Most of them are stainless steel welded tubes, which are welded with stainless steel coils and have seams on the inner wall. The production process of industrial tubes includes hot rolling and cold rolling, and finally formed by cold drawing or cold rolling. The tube wall is generally thicker.

Surface treatment
‌304 stainless steel mirror tube: The surface is polished and usually presents a mirror effect, with a flat, smooth and shiny appearance. This treatment makes the surface of the tube very smooth and suitable for occasions requiring high gloss.
‌Industrial tube: The surface treatment is mostly pickling and passivation to form a dense oxide film to improve corrosion resistance. The surface of industrial tubes is usually rough and sometimes polished, but the effect is not as good as that of mirror tubes.

Uses
‌304 stainless steel mirror tube‌: Mainly used in places with high requirements for decoration and aesthetics, such as balcony protective windows, stair handrails, bus station handrails, bathroom clothes drying racks, etc.
‌Industrial tube‌: Mainly used in industrial fields, such as boilers, heat exchangers, mechanical parts, sewage pipes, etc. Due to its high thickness and high pressure resistance, it is often used to transport fluids such as water, coal gas, natural gas, oil, etc.

GNEE specializes in the production of: stainless steel seamless pipes, stainless steel welded pipes, sanitary stainless steel pipes, food grade stainless steel pipes, austenitic, duplex steel, urea grade stainless steel, super stainless steel and other series of steel pipes, pipe fittings, coils, round steel, flanges and other products.
GNEE equipment: The main equipment includes Zhong 50~Zhong 250 series hot rolling and piercing units, LG30~LG450 series cold rolling units, VLB5T~YLB1000T series high-precision hydraulic cold drawing units, large-scale drilling and boring units, computer automatically controlled natural gas roller bottom and box-type furnaces, solid solution furnaces, normalizing furnaces, tempering furnaces and box-type furnaces, MU25M~MU711M stainless steel automatic welded pipe units, various pipe fitting production units, etc.
The stainless steel seamless pipe production line has an annual output of 15,000 tons. The specifications of stainless steel seamless steel pipes are $6~Ф914x0.5~70mm; the specifications of stainless steel welded steel pipes are medium 15~medium 2200x0.5~80mm; steel pipe fittings and flanges.