Quality is of paramount importance at OCTL. In the pursuit of this goal, the OCTL Quality Assurance Program actively involves personnel at all levels, in the continuing effort to produce the highest level of quality products consistently. At OCTL, Quality is a continuous process and is embedded in every event, right from the receipt of the Customer Order, procurement of raw materials, processing and shipment of the finished products.

The Customer Order is reviewed for all the specifications and special customer requirements and are translated to manufacturing documents.

The incoming raw material procured only from high quality API Mills, approved by OCTL, are checked for chemistry and dimensional parameters with the raw material specifications of OCTL, prior to processing. Any deviations noted in the raw material are immediately notified to the Mill for corrective action.

During each of the processing stages, strict quality controls are performed to ensure the highest levels of Quality and full compliance with the specified requirements. The best controls, testing, inspection concepts, and practices are integrated into the system. The inspection procedures are designed to detect imperfections, assess their severity and assure that all products comply with the specified standards. These include mechanical and metallurgical testing, non-destructive testing for possible longitudinal and transverse defects, wall thickness, and steel grade verification, pipe hardness, drift, and hydrostatic testing, magnaflux and ultrasonic inspection, and threading inspection.

To accomplish this, the facility is equipped with the latest testing and inspection equipment's, metallurgical laboratory including ARL Spectrometer for chemical analysis, and metrology laboratory for gages and tooling control. A complete set of Master and Working Gages are maintained and the calibration of the gages is strictly scheduled for verifying working gages against master gages, as well as all the inspection, measuring, and testing equipment.

The OCTL QA Program provides complete process and product traceability for each pipe, starting from the raw material stage through finishing. A unique product number is die stamped on every product to ensure complete traceability. At any time, the Customer can be provided with a comprehensive account of his product.

OCTL, a complete integrated facility with the quality conscious personnel having the required expertise at all levels, presents itself as the best option to manufacture and supply Quality products consistently with the 'Competitive Edge' to your complete satisfaction.