Niobium Tubing

Eagle Alloys Corporation (EAC) is the leading global supplier of Niobium tubing and pipe.  EAC stocks a wide variety of sizes in Niobium tubing and can supply custom tubing and pipe sizes with short lead times. Eagle Alloys supplies DRC Conflict Free material.  EAC only sources our Niobium from Level 1 smelters.

Eagle Alloys Corporation can supply Niobium tubing and pipe from 0.039” OD up to 6.500” OD and 20 foot long.  If you do not see your Niobium tubing size listed below, please contact our courteous sales team to assist you. Please view or print our Niobium stock list for our complete stock sizes and capabilities.

In addition to commercially pure Niobium EAC also supplies Reactor Grade Niobium, Niobium Zirconium Alloys, Niobium Hafnium Alloy, Niobium Tungsten Alloy, Niobium Titanium Alloy.

Niobium is typically supplied to meet the requirements of ASTM-B-392, ASTM-B-393, ASTM-B-394, AMS 7850, ASTM-B-654, ASTM-B-655, RO4200 Type 1, RO4210 Type 2, RO4251 Type 3, RO4261 Type 4, C129Y, FS-85.

Niobium applications include sputtering targets, nuclear reactors, gas pipelines, jet engines, chemical processing equipment, particle accelerators, turbine blades, automotive components, capacitors, superconductors, sensitive magnetic imaging equipment, vacuum furnaces, reactor vessels, heat exchangers, sodium lamps, jewelry, steel additive, and optics.

Niobium is less corrosion-resistant than tantalum at high temperature. Niobium is not attacked by nitric acid up to 100 °C, but aggressively attacked by mixture of nitric and hydrofluoric acids. Hot, concentrated hydrochloric, sulfuric, and phosphoric acids attack it, but hot, concentrated nitric acid does not. Niobium is unaffected at room temperature by most acids. It is attacked by alkaline solutions to some extent at all temperatures.  Due to its low capture cross section for thermal neutrons, Niobium has application in the nuclear industry. Niobium can be electrically heated and anodized to a wide variety of colors that makes it very attractive in the jewelry industry.