Thanks for the feed back so far.
to clarify the affected element here is Ni, the 3.51% is the melt analysis.
Unexpectedly the product check analysis has come out at 3.6% for Ni which is concerning (I have been informed that product check has a permissible extra tolerance of +/- 0.07%)
My first thread so please go easy on me!
So we have a raw material (stainless steel) with an element tolerance of 3.0 to 3.5%, the Mill cert supplied records the element at 3.51" which exceeds the tolerance range in the specification. Our supplier is arguing that the material is compliant based...