| A Tradition of
Meeting Customer Challenges, as We'll Meet Yours |
Since our founding
over 70 years ago, engineers, scientists, and manufacturers
have come to depend on Superior Tube for solutions in tubing.
Solutions may be an over-used word, but we couldn't figure out
a better way to say it. Our customers come to us with problems
and we solve them. With tubing that has made a difference, in
science and defense, in cars and consumer goods, in the medical
and the mundane. |
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Why does our pride matter to you? Because
it gives you an idea of how we'll work with you. Whether you
have a well defined need, or just an idea that involves the
kind of tubing we make, we'll work with you to figure out the
best answer-whether it's driven by cost, schedule, application
challenges, or taking steps never taken before. Just as we've
worked with our customers over that proud history. |
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First tube mill to draw unalloyed titanium A-40. Ti development efforts would eventually lead to introduction of Ti3Al-2.5V alloy. |
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Began development of L605 alloy in tubular form. |
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Introduced tubing in titanium 3Al-2.5V. |
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Introduced tubing in niobium (columbium) and niobium (columbium) 1% zirconium. |
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Introduced tubing in tantalum and its alloys. |
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Introduced seamless, heavy-walled cobalt-chromium-nickel tube for the manufacturing of pacing wire for the medical implant market. |
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Supplied titanium hydraulic line tubing to McDonnell-Douglas Corp. for use in the new F-15 Eagle fighter airplane being built for the US Air Force. Tube diameters ranged from 0.250" to 0.625". |
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Supplied stainless steel fuel cladding and instrumentation tubing to the Department of Energy’s Fast Flux Nuclear Test Facility located near Hanford, Washington. This advanced, sodium cooled reactor, served as a large scale testing facility for fuels, alloys and other reactor materials required for breeder reactor technology. |
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Introduced MP35N to the marketplace in tubular form. |
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Production of 21-6-9 hydraulic tubing for commercial and military aircraft began, which continues to this day. |
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Supplied titanium hydraulic line tubing to McDonnell-Douglas/Northrop for use in new jointly developed F/A-18 Hornet being built for the US Navy. Tube diameters ranged from 0.250" to 0.625". |
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Supplied thin wall, stainless steel heat exchanger tubing to Rockwell International for use in the new B-1 Bomber being built for the US Air Force. |
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Produced stainless steel stents, tubing to make pacing and defibrillating wire, heavy-walled tubing for orthopedic implants; cobalt-chrome for implant devices (stents/leads). |
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Developed process to manufacture extremely thin-wall zirconium tubing for a critical nuclear application. |
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Performed additional development work with tantalum/2.5% tungsten. |
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Supplied seamless IN 102 tubing for a military aircraft engine retrofit. |
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Supplied a Haynes 214 Alloy tubing in a square shape having 1/8" flats x 0.012" wall. |
