Flanges of all kinds are used to connect pipes and seal them as they are connected. Without the flange, most things people have are taken for granted. For example, you could not have indoor plumbing without the flanges used to connect all the pipes in your home and secure your toilet to the floor and to the main sewer stack. Some of the most popular flanges are made of different metals, including carbon, aluminum, and stainless steel. Stainless flanges have multiple benefits over and above carbon and aluminum. 

Stainless Steel Flanges Will Not Fail Like Aluminum Flanges

Aluminum flanges should only be used when pressure of liquids or gases is low, and when the liquids have a neutral PH and the gases are non-corrosive. If you avoid this warning, the aluminum flanges will fail. On the other hand, if you use stainless steel, they will not fail, regardless of the liquid or gas, and regardless of the pressure running through or around them.

Stainless Steel Will Not Corrode Like Carbon

Carbon cannot stand up to the effects of water like stainless steel can. Carbon flanges very quickly corrode and fail when they are used in plumbing and channeling water and other liquids. You will find that you have to replace carbon flanges dozens of times more often than if you had just used a stainless steel one instead. 

Under Crush Resistance Testing, the Stainless Steel Flange Keeps Going

If you were to place a stainless steel, a carbon steel, and an aluminum flange in a crush resistant testing machine, guess which flange would survive? The stainless one would, because it is the strongest of the three. The carbon steel would buckle and crumble first, followed by the aluminum flange, and the stainless flange would still be there with nary a fold or a scratch to it. 

Worried about Flange Shape?

The biggest concern many customers have is in regards to the flange's shape. They are concerned that they cannot get any shape other than a round flange, but that simply is not true. The stainless flanges come in square shapes and round, and you can get watertight stainless flange squares as well as 6x6 stainless flange squares as well. There are dozens of other sizes of these popular flange shapes, and if you are looking for something in particular, all you have to do is ask the company or manufacturer.

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