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Stainless Carbon Steel Clad Plate

Explosion bonded stainless steel/carbon steel clad plate combining corrosion resistance of cladding with structural strength of base plate.

Explosion-bonded clad plate puts a 2-6 mm stainless skin on a thick carbon steel base: most of the corrosion performance of solid stainless at a fraction of the material cost, on large vessel shells where the savings compound fast. The bond is metallurgical, not mechanical - it bends and welds like one plate.

Grades and Combinations

  • Cladding: 304L, 316L, 2205 and other stainless grades, 1.5-6 mm typical
  • Base plate: Q345R, SA516 Gr.70 and vessel-grade carbon steel, 6-100 mm
  • Produced per NB/T 47002 (explosion bonded vessel plate)

Sizes and Supply

  • Parent plate sizes up to 3500 x 12000 mm depending on combination
  • Supplied ground and UT-inspected, ready for head forming and shell rolling

Quality Documents

100% ultrasonic bond inspection with a map of the bond area, shear strength test per lot (typical requirement 200 MPa and up), plus full 3.1 MTC for both layers. These three documents decide clad tenders - we supply all of them as standard.

Where This Plate Goes

  • Pressure vessels with corrosive media
  • Desalination and petrochemical columns
  • Heat exchanger shells needing stainless contact surfaces

Questions Buyers Ask

Q: Clad or solid stainless? A: Above roughly 12-16 mm total thickness, clad usually wins on cost. Below that, solid plate is simpler to fabricate.
Q: Can it be rolled into shells? A: Yes - that is what most of it is for. Forming trials on scrap edges are available for first-time fabricators.
Send cladding grade, base grade and total thickness - bond test data comes with the quote.