JIT Process

While our manufacturing process and equipment is similar to that of other manufacturers, we manage the timeline of our operations differently to provide unique value to the market. Rather than filling capacity and standardizing product offerings like traditional mills, CRA focuses on maintaining reserved capacity for quick needs and unique sizes and lengths.

CRA’s finished tubes are manufactured by traditional methods. The material starts off as an ingot or continuous cast billet. It is then hot worked to achieve a sound wrought structure and converted to a hollow tube shell by hot working or trepanning. The choice of which process route to use is dependent upon several variables including quantity and the customer delivery need. The tube shells are annealed to obtain the required microstructure, cold-pilgered to achieve the finish size and mechanical properties, straightened, submitted to non-destructive/destructive/visual testing, and finished with final cutting/inspection/marking.

Quality is in our DNA. We have a 98% customer quality rating. We are ISO 9001:2015 certified and currently the only mill in North America holding an API 5CRA license. The license extends to all API 5CRA products from groups 2, 3, and 4 meeting PSL 1 and 2 requirements. We are also able to accommodate any key 3rd party inspection points or customer QA/QC requirements. In addition, our technical and quality teams are actively involved in several API and AMPP subcommittees.

Our manufacturing processes have a long history of quality, our facilities are growing, and our capabilities are expanding. Our model may be simple, but it can provide huge value.