This document establishes a procedure for verifying that the manufacturer of special materials for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries has sufficient competence and experience of the relevant material grades of metal, and the necessary facilities and equipment, to manufacture these materials in the required shapes and sizes with acceptable properties according to the applicable standard, material specification and/or material data sheet specified by the purchaser.

This document is applicable to manufacturers of various materials, product forms and manufacturing processes when specified by the purchaser. This document has been established considering especially, but not exclusively:

a) duplex stainless steel;

b) high alloyed austenitic stainless steel;

c) nickel-based alloys;

d) titanium and its alloys.

This document is also applicable to the processes of induction bending and strain-hardened products.