The magazine of STEEL PIPE is founded in 1964, with International Standard Continuous Publication No. ISSN 1001-2311 and China National Unified Continuous Publication No. CN 51-1164/TG is a national S & T journal as authorized for public distribution both at home and abroad by the former State S & T Commission and General Administration of Press and Publication of the People’ Republic of China. It is administrated and sponsored by Pangang Group Research Institute Co., Ltd. with assistances from Steel Rolling Sub-society of China Society of Metals and Steel Pipe Sub-association of China Association of Steel Structures.
The coverage of STEEL PIPE mainly involves the highlights of recent domestic and foreign development and progresses of the disciplines concerning the steel pipe industry, focusing on such aspects as the research achievements as made in the steel pipe (both seamless and weld tubular products)manufacturing circles and associated industries involving R & D, design, production, operation and management, etc., reporting and popularizing relevant new processes, technologies, equipment and products, and giving priority to reporting achievements of the scientific research projects supported by relevant science funds from relevant national or provincial or State Ministry authorities and similar projects awarded by such authorities, particularly new technologies and achievements with proprietary IPRs of Chinese companies.
STEEL PIPE has been certified as a Bi-effective Journal of the first China Journal Matrix, and been honored many a time as Excellent Metallurgical Journal of China and Excellent Metallurgical Journal of Sichuan Province. STEEL PIPE has had memberships of the data bases as follows: 《Data Base of Core Journals(Selected) of China》, 《Data Base for Comprehensive Evaluation of Academic Journals of China》, 《Wanfang Data Base-Digital Journal Group》, 《Data Base of S & T Journals in Chinese (full contents)》, 《Data Base of Metallurgical Digests of China》, 《China Journal Network》,《China Academic Journals(ROM version)》, etc.
The main columns of STEEL PIPE include Expert Forum, Comprehensive Review, Experiment and Research, New Product Development, New Equipment, Design and Development, Steel Pipe Standardization, Discussion and Suggestion, Automation Technology, Computer Research and Application, Energy Application, S&T Highlights, etc.
STEEL PIPE is published bimonthly (issued in Feb., Apr., Jun., Aug., Oct. and Dec.).