General

Edcon Steel sells a wide variety of round steel Hot Dip Galvanized pipe to all sorts of customers.  Pipe or Circular Hollow Sections (CHS) is available in a variety of grades, finishes and materials.  All Pipes are in standard sizes or a schedule of sizes.   We stock & cut a comprehensive range of these sizes. There is a vast array of types and sizes of pipe for all manner of different applications.  Pipe may be referred to as schedule pipe or line pipe and these are based on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) sizes.  

Characteristics

Mild Steel pipes or Circular Hollow Sections (CHS) are :

High Strength to weight ratio

Easy to weld and fabricate using standard processes

Lower carbon content

Common ranges are readily available

Large ranges of fittings and accessories available for many applications

Common Applications

Our steel pipes are used for a vast array of applications. Our stock holdings are selected to help you get the pipe you need to get your job done.  Typical pipe applications are:

Structural - Columns and Frames

Mechanical - pipe and gas transfer

General Engineering

Furniture

Automotive

Marine

Fencing

Rural and Agriculture

Steel water Pipes

Electrical Poles

Edcon Steel Tips

These pipe sizes are not to be confused with Tube sizes.  There are a huge verity of tube also available also at mild steel ERW tube .  The easiest way to describe tube would be a thin wall pipe, but the standard sizes will differ from our pipe schedule sizes.  Our steel stores are well stocked in Pipe with 350 grade mild steel, 316 Stainless Steel, 6060 Grade Aluminium and brass.   All of our stocked Pipes (CHS) can be cut to your requirements, and you can take part lengths or cut pieces while only paying for what you need (cutting charges apply).  Our Stores will stock Circular Hollow Sections in the manufactured lengths.  The stocked length, as well as the sizes (schedule sizes), will vary according to the material grade.  The changes in length may be small, however, we recommend customers do their research on the lengths that their selected product comes in.  A small change in the design lengths, can lead to greater product yield and less waste - saving you money.

Electricians Service poles are a common use for our Hot Dip Galvanized pipes .  We stock pipes sizes with this in mind and we sell hundreds of these every month.  We also have stock of quick-set cement and j-bolts to provide a one stop shop for our electricians. 

We stock pre-cut hot dip galvanized fence posts & stay sizes  at our Rural Sites please feel free to check out our range here.

We also have many accessories to suit our ranges of Hot Dip Galvanized Pipes. We have plastic caps, metal post caps and a wide range of . 

NOTE : Australian Pipe & Tube Mills make very little Hot Dip Galvanized Pipe, it very hard to source and will be expensive compared to imported pipes just because of scale. Most Hot Dip Galvanized Pipes in Australia will be imported from mills in India, UAE, Pakistan or China. Quality & manufacturing standards varies from Mill to Mill. Care needs to taken when sourcing this product for critical applications.

Telescoping

Most Mild Circular Square Hollow Sections will be Electro-Resistance Welded (ERW).  This welding process will result in a weld seam.  The external weld seam will be scarfed off resulting in a smooth finish on the external face, but the internal weld seam will remain protruding on the internal face of the tube.  This is important to any customer who is looking to "Telescope" their Round tube or pipe Section.  Telescoping of Circular Hollow tube is common to allow parts to sleeve together or to be extendable with one typically smaller CHS sliding inside a larger CHS.  There is a telescoping chart available on our website.

We also have many accessories to suit our ranges of Circular Hollow Section (CHS) we have plastic caps, metal post caps and mild steel base plates to suit our mild steel square hollow sections to enable our customer to make their own posts and columns. 

Surface Protections and Coatings

Hot Dip Galvanized Pipe(CHS) products are coated on the external and internal surface by hot-dip galvanizing process resulting in a higher coating thickness than inline processes.  The galvanizing process is conducted after manufacture following preparation of the metal surface to produce a fully inter-metallic bonded coating.  There will be all the surface variation and colour variation from Hot Dip Galvanizing but the coating will be around 3 times thicker than a "pregal" finish.