The Cost-effectiveness of Tantalum

In today’s world, where maintenance periods, downtime and the associated loss of production play a role at least as important as procurement prices, components made from Tantalum offer an outstanding price/performance ratio. As these TANTEC components are always customised precisely to your requirements and applications, procurement prices can be optimised. Where the right choice is made on the basis of the list of corrosion resistances, no substantial costs are incurred over the period of use of the Tantalum components, except for possible cleaning works.

The components manufactured for you by TANTEC generally incorporate rolled-in and welded tubes/tube base connections which do not require any maintenance, as can arise due to leaking seals or sealants. This is the case, for example, with heat exchangers.

When looking at the entire lifespan of your facility (“total cost of ownership” – TCO), there is a permanently positive effect on costs that other materials simply cannot offer. As such, a comparison with materials such as noble metals, high-alloyed stainless steel, silicon carbide, graphite etc. is thoroughly feasible.

Tantalum – as reliable as noble metals, but a lot less expensive

In the past, Tantalum was wrongly assumed to be a very expensive material. As so often is the case in life, however, appearances are deceiving. Even though no alternative product is available for some applications, Tantalum is very cost-effective once you take into consideration both the considerably longer lifespan and very low maintenance requirements, both of which derive from the extremely high resistance to corrosion. At this point, it again becomes clear that plastics, glass, silicon carbide and graphite are no longer viable alternatives.

If you are interested to know how cost-effective Tantalum components can be, please get in touch with us. Our experts will be happy to provide you with a comprehensive consultation based on their special technical knowledge and experience. TANTEC will be pleased to submit you an individual quote, and will present evidence of the product durability in the form of recognised recommendations from practical applications.

Tantec Cashback

Because of its durability, Tantalum is a valuable material. That is precisely what we seek to substantiate when we guarantee to take Tantalum components back from you once they reach the end of their many years of operational use. The material can be recycled any number of times, and in this way TANTEC is able to make a contribution to introducing valuable raw materials to new applications, rather than disposing of them.