Jindal Pipe USA Inc. takes pride in producing the best quality pipe. This facility is backed by sound technology and equipment in collaboration with leading design and engineering consultants.
Policies are in place to govern JPU’s Quality Management System. These policies define the intended arrangements for managing our operations and activities in accordance with the framework established by API Spec. Q1 9th Edition and ISO 9001:2015 standard representing the Jindal Pipe USA’s plans or protocol for achieving product quality and customer satisfaction.
The organization shall follow requirements of Annex- A of API Q1, 5L & 5CT for the application and removal of API monogram for the products manufacture as per API 5L & 5CT latest editions. The organization is also producing the pipes using different national / international specifications like CSA and ASTM specifications for gas, oil, and structural applications.
JPU has established, documented, implemented, and maintained a quality management system, continually improving its effectiveness in accordance with the requirements of standards, customers, and interested parties. It has also determined processes, their sequence and interaction, method of control, resources planning, monitoring, analysis, and actions to achieve planned results and improvement.
INSPECTION
Material integrity and quality control are at the very heart of the Jindal Pipe USA Inc. pipe manufacturing process. Every pipe will undergo very rigorous destructive and non-destructive integrity testing, as well as each pipe is visually inspected for surface defects and welding consistency inside and out.
Testing
In our best-in-class mechanical & coating testing laboratory we complete an independent analysis on coil as well as pipe sections to ensure that the components of the steel are of the quality our customers deserve and demand. Through this testing we can guarantee our customer that our pipe meets or exceeds the required chemical and mechanical properties.
Different Methods of Testing
Through this testing we can guarantee our customer that our pipe meets or exceeds the required chemical and mechanical properties. Those tests include:
MECHANICAL TEST
- Tensile Test: Used to determine the overall strength of steel.
- Guided Bend Test: Used to test the quality of a weld seam.
- Charpy Impact Test: Used to determine overall toughness of steel including absorbed energy and brittle appearance.
- Computerized Hardness Test: Used to verify steel hardness values.
- Chemical Analysis Test: Used to determine the chemical analysis of steel.
- Drop Weight Tear Test: Used to determine point of brittle fracturing and/or cracking in steel.
COATING TEST
- Cathodic Disbondment: Cathodic Disbondment testing provides an assessment of the resistance of the coating to disbondment when subjected to cathodic protection.
- Adhesion: Adhesion testing is necessary to ensure coating will adhere properly to the substrates to which it is applied.
- Interface Contamination: Contamination testing is performed to identify an excessive amount of foreign contaminants.
- Interface Porosity: Porosity testing is performed to determine the degree of porosity or voids in the applied coating.
- Cross-section Porosity: Cross-section Porosity testing is similar in nature to Interface Porosity Testing only rated on a separate scale.
- Gel Time: Gel Time testing is performed to determine the length of time a coating powder takes to gel at a specified temperature.
- Flexibility: Flexibility testing is performed to determine flexibility of the coating during transportation and field bending.
- Differential Scanning: Scanning Calorimetric or DSC is used to determine the glass transition temperature and the exothermic heat of reaction of epoxy powders and coating.
- Impact Resistance: Impact Resistance testing is performed to provide a method for assessing the coating’s resistance to damage by impact from a falling weight.