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PIPE AND TUBE QUALITY PRODUCTION
AND QUICK DELIVERY
POWER GENERATION OCTG
& BOILERS
M I C H I G A N S E A M L E S S T U B E M A N U FA C T U R E S
SPECIALIZED SEAMLESS MECHANICAL AND
P R E S S U R E PIPE AND TUBE FOR A WIDE RANGE
O F I N D U S TRY APPLICATION.
Michigan Seamless Tube, located in the heart of the
mechanical market, has been producing carbon, alloy
and high chrome mechanical and pressure tubing since
1927. The modernization of the facility ensures fast
set up and offers big mill capacity, small mill flexibility
and the shortest delivery lead times possible.
Globalization requires that our products meet today’s
world quality standards. We offer complete non-
destructive testing equipment including ultrasonic,
eddy current and hydrostatic to ensure quality
standards are met for all worldwide industry and
customer specifications. Export sales managers are
trained in the essentials of export regulations and
offer trouble-free exportation of your order.
AIRCRAFT AUTOMOTIVE
& AEROSPACE
We know that you’ve got a business to run and we
want to be there for you. Our priority is to you, our
customer, to quote competitive prices, offer short
lead times and provide expert technical support.
Michigan Seamless Tube has operated successfully and
continuously for 75 years from its 320,000 square
foot manufacturing facility on 60 acres in South Lyon,
Michigan. MSTube will continue to provide the long
tradition of flexible and responsive customer service
and manufacture quality pipe and tube as experienced
by our customers for over 75 years.
MSTUBE IS FLEXIBLE AND RESPONSIVE TO CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS
QUICK DELIVERY SMALL TO LARGE MILL QUANTITIES
COMPETITIVE PRICES TECHNICAL SUPPORT
TRANSPORTATION HEAVY EQUIPMENT
& AGRICULTURE
Pipe and tube manufactured by Michigan Seamless
Tube is cold drawn (cold finished) to customer
specific order requirements. Raw material in the
form of solid round billets arrives in a broad
selection of grades and sizes. Heated in a rotary
hearth furnace, each billet is indented in the exact
center before entering the rotary piercing mill
where a hydraulic ram feeds the billet between
heavy rollers that drive it over a piercing point to
produce a tube shell.
While still hot, the tubes are reduced in size in a
stretch reducing mill. This produces tube shells of
superior concentricity. After cooling, the tube
shell is cold worked. The draw bench pulls it over
the stationary die and over a mandrel improving
grain structure, surface condition, increasing
MINING
& CONSTRUCTION
hardness and reducing the tubes to the desired
size and thickness within very close tolerances.
After cold working, the tubes go to the annealing
furnace where variations of temperature, time
and the number of cycles produces a wide range
of hardness and tensile strength to meet the
standards and customer requirements.
After straightening to desired tolerances, the
tubes are cut to length then checked by eddy
current and demagnetized. Throughout the
process the tubes receive minimal handling to
ensure excellent surface finishes. Before being
shipped, the tubes are extensively tested to
ensure quality and a test report is then provided
to the customer with each shipment.
 PRODUCT INFORMATION
Michigan Seamless Tube offers a full line of mechanical and pressure products to ASTM
ASME and API in a broad selection of grades, shapes and sizes for a variety of
applications: Power Generation, Boilers, OCTG (Oil Country), Aircraft & Aerospace,
Automotive, Transportation, Heavy Equipment, Agriculture, and Mining to name just a few.

We specialize in quenched and tempered tubular products through strategic alliances

with state-of-the-art heat treating facilities.

Michigan Seamless Tube is TUV, QS-9000, and ISO 9001:2000 certified. MSTube also
meets ASTM/ASME, AMS, SAE, DIN, JIS and military specifications. MSTube offers NCA-
3800 nuclear capabilities and complies to “Buy American” requirements.

TUBING Mechanical Tubing is cold drawn (cold finished) and possesses exceptional strength-to-
weight ratios, excellent surface quality, and dimensional accuracy in a wide range of
mechanical properties.

Pressure Tubing requires an uncompromising level of quality because of the critical

end-use applications. Strict production standards and procedures are required to meet
the precise ASTM/ASME and individual specifications required for heat exchangers,
condenser and boilers. We offer complete non-destructive testing equipment including
ultrasonic, eddy current and hydrostatic to ensure quality standards are met for all
worldwide industry and customer specifications.We produce MLR (multi lead rifled)
boiler tubing.

4130 Aircraft Tubing is cold drawn (cold finished), stress relieved annealed and heat
treated to meet the needs of the aircraft and aerospace industry. MSTube 4130 is
certified to the following general specifications: A519, MIL-T-6736 B (AMS-T-6736A), AMS-
6371 and AMS-6360 with decarburization levels to AMS-6371.
WE MEET DOMESTIC-ONLY REQUIREMENTS..

PIPE Standard Pipe is available in numerous grades, alloys and specifications. As design
engineers find more uses for pipe, and operational requirements on pipe are more
demanding, today’s specifications are intensely precise. Michigan Seamless Tube is capable
of supplying steel pipe of impressive superior quality to meet exact specifications. Cold
drawn seamless pipe is produced to 1/2” IPS through 4” IPS schedules (12.7 mm IPS
through 101.6 mm IPS). Single and double random, or custom lengths. Michigan Seamless
offers NCA-3800 nuclear capabilities.
 SIZES Cold Drawn Seamless Tube
.625” through 5” OD (15.875 mm through 127 mm OD)
.072” through .875” wall (1.83 mm through 22.23 mm wall)

Shapes and MLR Rifled/Ribbed Tubes available

Cold Drawn Seamless Pipe

1/2” IPS through 4” IPS schedules
(12.7 mm IPS through 101.6 mm IPS)
Single and double random, or custom lengths

GRADES Carbon Grades - 1010 through 1060

Alloy Grades - 15xx, 23xx, 40xx, 41xx, 43xx, 46xx, 48xx, 50xx, 51xx, 61xx, 63xx,
70xx, 86xx, 87xx, 93xx

Free Machining Resulfurized Grades - 1118, 1119 mod, 1137 and 1141
See XTROCUT chart for more information

Bearing Grades - 4118, 8620, 8630

Chrome Grades - SA 213 - T2, T5, T9, T11, T12, T22,T91, 9 Chrome, 13 Chrome

COMMON ASTM/ASME (A/SA)

SPECIFICATIONS Pipe - 106, 333, 334, 335 - P1, P2, P5, P9, P11, P12, P22, P91
Boiler Tube/Heat Exchanger -179, 192, 199, 209, 209 T1, 209 T1A, 210, 213, 423
Mechanical Tube - 519
Military, API, AMS, BS, DIN, JIS, NCA - 3800
For other specifications, please inquire
 XTROCUT
Michigan Seamless Tube free machining steel
tubing includes all the popular resulfurized
and rephosphorized grades. Users can
realize a definite economic advantage
between comparable free machining bar and
XTROCUT tubing when manufacturing
parts that require hole drilling. Production
time is improved, tooling is cheaper, waste is
minimized. The bottom line is that costs are
reduced. In addition to the XTROCUT line,
special chemistries that enhance
machinability can be developed by Michigan
Seamless Tube experienced Technical
Services Engineers.
WHY XTROCUT?
Time after time, industry applications have proven that you can choose
XTROCUT over bar stock and improve machinability and the quality of
the finished part. With the “hole” already in place, expensive time-
consuming drilling stations can be replaced with less expensive faster
boring operations. Coolants can be directed to the inside as well as
outside surface. Using XTROCUT for through-bored parts means less
scrap, more parts per hour and improved profit.
Extensive metal movement during hot forming coupled with cold drawing
work through a die and over a mandrel provides precise control over
mechanical properties and orderly distribution of sulfide inclusions giving
XTROCUT excellent lubricity. Heat generated during machining dissipates
quickly helping control build-up and slough-off on tool edges. Tools run
cooler, stay sharp longer and surface finish is improved considerably.

TABLE OF XTROCUT GRADES

MST XTROCUT & FREE-MACHINING STEEL TUBING vs. PLAIN CARBON STEEL TUBING
GRADE XTROCUT 150 XTROCUT 220 C1018 C1026 FREE-MACHINING
COMPARABLE AISI GRADE 1137/1141 1119 Mod. 1118

Steel grade carried in Slightly higher

High carbon Intermediate carbon Distributor’s stock. properties than C1018. Intermediate carbon,
DESCRIPTION
resulphurized steel resulphurized steel Recommended for Good for carburizing. resulphurized steel
general use

MACHINABILITY
SURFACE FEET-PER-MINUTE
150 220 130 140 170

PERCENT RELATIVE SPEED

BASED ON 1112 AS 100%
90 98 76 85 91

0.32/0.45 C 0.13/0.18 C 0.13/0.18 C 0.22/0.28 C 0.11/0.18 C

1.35/1.65 Mn 1.30/1.60 Mn 0.60/0.90 Mn 0.60/0.90 Mn 1.30/1.60 Mn
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS ( % ) 0.04 Max. Phos. 0.04/0.07 Phos. 0.040 Max. Phos. 0.040 Max. Phos. .040 Max. Phos.
0.08/0.13 Sul. 0.08/0.16 Sul. 0.050 Max. Sul. 0.050 Max. Sul. 0.08/0.13 Sul.

TYPICAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES (STRESS-RELIEVED CONDITION)

TENSILE 90,000 psi 90,000 psi 85,000 psi 85,000 psi 90,000 psi
YIELD 80,000 psi 80,000 psi 70,000 psi 75,000 psi 80,000 psi
ELONGATION 12.0% 12.0% 15.0% 15.0% 12.0%
HARDNESS RB 90-105 RB 90-(105) RB 90-100 RB 90-100 RB 90-(105)

AVAILABILITY MST MST MST MST MST

OD's to 4.250" OD's to 4.250" OD's to 5.000" OD's to 5.000" OD's to 4.250"
SIZES
Walls to 0.750" Walls to 0.750" Walls to 0.875" Walls to 0.875" Walls to 0.750"
VALUE ADDED SERVICES
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

CUSTOMIZED SHAPES - SQUARE, HEX, OVAL,

COMBINATION OF SHAPES (i.e. round OD with hex ID)

CUSTOM SPECIFICATIONS

BAR CODING

EDI

SPECIAL CHEMISTRIES THAT REQUIRE UNIQUE

MODIFICATION TO MEET YOUR PIPE AND TUBING NEEDS

SALES OFFICE
AVAILABLE SHAPES TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Toll Free Phone: 800.521.8416
International & Local Calls: 248.437.0210
Fax: 248.437.2779

INQUIRIES
Fax: 248.437.2779
Email: info@mstube.com
Website www.mstube.com
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