What factors are closely related to the price of welded steel tube

In our industrial production and construction, the application of welded steel pipe is everywhere and it is often seen in our daily life. For example, the use of steel pipes can be seen in the water supply pipes in urban construction, gas and liquefied gas transportation in residential buildings as well as piling of urban bridges. As steel pipes used to these occasions are often hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters, the relevant procurement staff maybe not only pay attention to the specifications of the steel pipe, but also be concerned with steel pipe price. However, do you know what factors are closely related to steel pipe price? This question is very important because steel pipe supplier can reduce their production cost according to these factors and the adjustment will be to the point. So we can have a look at these factors for a reference.

As a matter of fact, the price of square steel pipe is closely related to its manufacturing process. So what are the main processing craft. The first type is processing steel by forging. This is an old and traditional way of processing as steel has a relatively good flexibility, it will be processed into the length and shape required by customers under the pressure of the steel hammer. The second type is rolled steel. This process is accomplished by using certain equipment. The third type is extruded steel whose process is to place the steel in the extrusion mould and then use the external force to make the metal steel out of the die hole. Most non-ferrous metals are processed by this method. Of course, the welding method is the most common one such as round steel pipe whose main processing method is welding.

After understanding the several processing ways of the steel pipe, we can find that the steel pipe price is mainly related to the following two factors when fluctuation factors of market price is eliminated. One is about productivity. For example, it is more efficient to process steel by means of equipment rolling, so the price of rolled steel tube is lower than that of forging steel pipe. Second, it is closely related to labor cost. In the past few decades, the steel pipe price is much lower. With the cost of labor soaring, the price of every meter of steel tube is double. So steel pipe manufacturers can make efforts in these factors to lower production cost to occupy more market share.