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What you can buy
Stainless steel
- Tube & pipe
Sizes
- Diameter range
- ½" to 144" (12.7 mm to 4 m) welded pipe in schedules 5S, 10S, 40S and 80S plus other walls and gauges
- Lengths
- Up to 60 ft (18 m) or more from continuous lines and 48 ft (15 m) from batch mill lines
- Forming
- Continuous mills form pipe to 16" (400 mm) in 60 ft lengths; tandem presses form up to 36" (900 mm) diameter in 48 ft lengths
- Welding
- GTAW (TIG) and plasma arc welding; autogenous welds to 0.688" (17.5 mm) wall and filler-metal welds to 1" (25.4 mm); 2" and larger double welded
- Cold working and planishing
- Full cold working or planishing of the weld bead on ½" to 36" pipe, in-line on continuous mill products
- Heat treatment
- In-line and off-line furnace and localized heat treating of material up to 144" OD and 60 ft long
- Surface finishing
- Pickling and passivation in five process tanks and two rinse tanks for pipe up to 72" diameter and 60 ft long; ID and OD sandblasting
- End preparation
- Machine beveling per ASME B16.25 or special requirements, with end protection
- Alloys
- Stainless steel, duplex, super duplex, 6 moly, nickel alloy and titanium welded pipe and tube, with stocked inventory of common sizes
- Project services
- Pre-manufacture and insured storage on site for just-in-time delivery, databooks, testing, inspection, color coding, special packaging and crating; company-owned truck fleet
About Bristol Pipe and Tube
Bristol Pipe and Tube, formerly Bristol Metals (BRISMET), manufactures welded stainless steel, duplex, super duplex, 6 moly, nickel alloy and titanium pipe and tube at a 190,000 sq ft plant on an 80-acre site in Bristol, Tennessee. It forms and welds pipe from ½" to 144" in diameter in lengths up to 60 feet, heat treats, pickles and passivates, bevels and tests in-house, and stocks common alloys for power, chemical, oil and gas, water, mining and process piping projects.
- Processing
- Pickling, Tube making, Warehousing
- Industries served
- Power generation, Chemical, Petrochemical, Oil and gas, Mining, Water and wastewater, Pulp and paper, Renewable energy, Steel and metals, Pharmaceutical, Food and beverage, Nuclear, OEM skid and modular piping
- Certifications
- ISO 9001:2015, PED 2014/68/EU, ASME S and U stamps, NSF-61/372
- Ownership
- Owned by Ta Chen International, Inc. (acquired from Ascent Industries in April 2025)
Location
Bristol, TN
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