BENKAN PIPE FITTINGS a ON tr Benkan Corporation CAT BW-l2]CONTENTS Benkan: Fitting Specialist . Inspection Procedure . Applicable Standards . Benkan’s Butt-Welding Fittings Wall Thickness Schedules Butt-Welding Fittings Weight and Volume Long and Short Radius Elbows Straight and Reducing Tees Concentric and Eccentric Reducers Caps . Stainless Stee! Lap Joint Stub Ends Dimensional Tolerances Welding End Preparation Scraper Bar Tees Y-Pieces Benkan’s Socket-Welding & Threaded Fittings. Socket-Welding Fittings ............- Threaded Fittings .. . Plug and Bushings Welding Outlet ... Union Socket Welding and Threaded . Materials Specifications for Butt-Welding Fittings ASTM A234/A234M-97 ASTM A420/A420M-96a ASTM A403/A403M-97a ASTM A815/A815M-97 ASTM B366-97a ASTM B363-95 MSS SP-75-91 .... ASTM A182/A182M-97¢ . ASTM A105/A105M-97 ASTM B361-95Benkan: Fitting Specialist Bonkan Corporation is the largest fitings manufacturer in Japan and one of the world's leading makers in this highly specialized field. Its three main factories use the most up-to-date manufacturing facilities and equipment 10 produce. Benkan brand is known and respected in ‘more than 100 countries around the word, The result thousands of Benkan Fittings in use in a wide variety of energyantensive industries - power generation, oll refining, petrochemical, chemical processing, LNG and LPG production, iron-stoeimaking, and shipbuilding To. meet the everincreasing demand for high quality, large-diameter fittings required for an ever wider variety of applications, the company expands production facilities and initiates research projects to develop new products and improve existing ones. For example, to meet the need for superlarge-diameter fittings, the company developed equipment which is capable of producing elbows with a maximum diameter Cf up to 80 inches in qutside diameter for use in various kinds of large-diameter pipelines. ‘And to move raw materials to matket from such remote ‘areas as Alaska and Siberia, Benkan developed low temperature use steel lageciameter butt-welding fittings. ‘As a fully integrated manufacturer of fittings with stress placed on the development of a full product line, Benkan has the capabilties to meet the requirements Of the industries it serves. Benkan's three main factories have the following ‘manufacturing capabiities. Kiryu Factory mass-produces steet-pipe butt-welding fitings including small- and medium-diameter elbows, tees and reducers, as well as medium- and semidarge- siameter carbon steel pipe elbows in sizes ranging from 8 to 24 inches in outside diameter and specia-purpose fittings tzllored to client specifications. t's_main products include steel butt-welding fittings from 1/2 to 24 inches. Yuki Factory mass-produces stainless steel elbows, to0s, reducers, caps and lap joint stub ends from 1/2 10 36 inches, Osaka Factory specializes in the manufacture of large- diameter steel end stainless stool elbows, tees, reducers and caps up to 80 inches in outside diameter, Besides the mass production of buttwelding fittings ‘made of carbon, alloy and stainloss stool, the company is also actively working on the development of special alloy, hastelloy and aluminum fittings. Benkan's factories are authorized by several ‘governmental agencies and classification and engineer ing societias including MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan), Lloyd's (Lloyd's Register of Shioping), NK (Nippon Kaji Kyokai), DNV (Det Norske Veritas), JIS (Japan Industral Standards), and SO 9002 (ROA