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Kobe Steel's Pressure Vessels
Kobe Steel is the only company in the world to be self-sufficient in the supply of the main materials for pressure vessels such as forged shells, heavy steel plates and even welding materials.
With our high level of technology, developed through decades of experience in the manufacture of pressure vessels, and through the cooperation between our materials divisions including the welding division, we deliver the world's highest quality pressure vessels to oil refineries and a variety of chemical plants.
Since 1967, Kobe Steel has been manufacturing desulphurization and hydrocracking reactors and delivering them to oil refineries around the world.
Successful development of modified 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V steels
Kobe Steel succeeded in developing modified 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V steels which, compared with the existing reactor material of 2 1/4Cr-1Mo steel, have higher strength and are superior in hydrogen resistant properties and overlay disbond prevention. We shipped the first reactor in the world made of the modified 2 1/4Cr-1Mo-V steel in 1998.
Authorized quality assurance system from ASME and others
The quality assurance system of Kobe Steel's pressure vessel plant is authorized under the following codes:
ASME U, U2, U3
ISO 9001, ISO 14001
Manufacture Lisence of Special Equipment (Pressure Vessel) People's Republic of China
KGS for pressure vessel manufacture
Product line-up
Kobe Steel's pressure vessel plant manufactures and sells the various pressure vessels as follows:
For oil refineries - Heavy oil, light oil desulphurization reactors
Heavy oil hydrocracking reactors
High pressure vessels for heavy oil desulphurization and hydrocracking plants - For fertilizer plants
- Ammonia converters
Urea reactors
Heat exchangers for urea plants - For other chemical plants
- Pressure vessels for acetic acid plants
Pressure vessels using special anti corrosion materials (Titanium, Copper, Zirconium, Monel, etc.)
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Machinery Business
Kobe Steel, Ltd.
