Impressive Pipes & Plumbing System: Fabricated With Stainless Steel Installation!

Stainless Steel is gaining popularity in the Plumbing systems. Many of the new state of the art buildings are incorporating stainless steel plumbing. Stainless Steel not only impresses everyone with its anti-corrosive property but is also considered the most hygienic metal & comes with an easy to install plumbing system.

Let’s understand why Stainless steel cannot be ignored in the plumbing business with few basic facts. Stainless steel is an alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass. This metal derives its name because it does not stain, rust or corrode, hence, christened as “STAINLESS STEEL”. Its properties are more enhanced with other elements such as Molybdenum, Nickel and nitrogen. With addition of these elements SS is produced in variety of grades for usage in range of industries as per their requirement. Passive layer on stainless steel ensures that this material doesn’t corrode and lasts for as many as 30-40 years. With oxygen available in atmosphere and chromium available in material, it ensures formation of passive layer again once the metal is cut or fabricated.

Stainless Steel is also Dubbed as ‘Wonder Metal’ because of its many distinguished characteristic like Aesthetic appeal, Low maintenance, dexterity, durability, low life cycle cost, good corrosion resistance to name a few. These qualities make it an ideal material for many applications for usage in Hotel & Restaurant Industry. One can actually reflect, how from the start of our day till its end, Stainless Steel touches our lives in so many different ways!

Plumbing systems have a huge impact on our modern lives, though we rarely ever think about them until something goes wrong. Plumbing systems distribute water throughout the building as pipes fitted in or around walls run from a water source into and throughout your building to valves and knobs that control water flow to your sinks, tubs, washing machine, and toilets.

A good water piping system increases the life and safety of the building. The most commonly used material for water piping is carbon steel but it tends to corrode heavily over a period of time and can cause leakages and subsequent damages to structure.

With increasing awareness Indian Architects, designers and plumbing consultants have started looking for alternatives to galvanized iron, PVC or copper to meet the demanding performance requirements from customer going for state-of-the art buildings.

Stainless Steel plumbing is often seen as expensive and crafty to work with but the new and innovative “Press Fit Technology” has made stainless steel to be cost effective and easy to install alternative to most systems. These pipes are available in 304 & 316 stainless steel grades along with full set of couplings.

Apart from the material benefits on account of very low corrosion rate in water, its hygienic, high flow rates and high strength there are some direct economic benefits of it such as

• Expected lifetime of stainless steel system is more than 50 years way ahead of many competing materials
• It requires no additional coating
• No maintenance and replacement results in cost saving
• Lower thickness of pipe on account of high strength thus lower material cost
• High flow velocity allows to use lower diameter pipes thus reducing cost
• With press fit technology (75% less installation time) savings in labor cost
• Savings in installation time results in saving in project overruns.

In many projects in India, stainless steel plumbing systems have been installed. Central Public Works Department under the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India has gone for fully state-of-art stainless steel plumbing in one of their residential projects in New Delhi. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is building a five story lecture hall in their campus in which SS plumbing system is being used. In a recent project done at Central University of Jammu, District Samba, Jammu stainless steel has been preferred for plumbing at high altitude cold region area. Many building & construction companies have used stainless steel plumbing in their prestigious projects.

Jindal Stainless group is largest & fully integrated manufacturers of stainless steel flat products in India with state of art production facilities located in Hisar, Haryana; & Jajpur, Odisha having a cumulative capacity of 1.8 M tones is contributing largely in development of stainless steel  for the nation.

Brief Profile of Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta, Director, Jindal Stainless

Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta is an Alumni of the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and a Post Graduate in Physics from Delhi University.  Mr. Gupta started his career as a Management Trainee in Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and has worked in leadership positions in various Steel Companies.

Currently, Mr. Gupta is Whole-time Director of Jindal Stainless (the largest producer of Stainless Steel in India having a turnover of Rs. 20,000 Crore).  Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of APL Apollo Tubes (having a turnover of Rs. 4,000 Crore). Earlier he has worked for Arcelor Mittal, Jindal Industries, Surya Roshni, Bhushan Steel, etc.

Mr. Gupta has played pivotal role in increasing production levels, improving profitability by reducing cost and establishing quality culture across organizations.  In last company, Market Capitalization has grown by over 10 times during his tenure.