Aluminum Jacketing

Aluminium jacketing is the protective metal skin over insulation on pipes, tanks and vessels — the coil is cut, rolled and fitted on site or in the fabricator's shop. The supplier's full-range site lists Aluminium Jacketing Insulation Coil as a strip family product, alongside transformer strip, color coated strip, PCB entry board strip, plastic composite strip, slit strip, shutter strip, corner strip, air duct strip, car license strip and heat exchange strip.

Jacketing — documented data

Product	Aluminium Jacketing Insulation Coil
Catalogue position	Strip family, full-range site
Related product	Stucco embossed sheet — the embossed sheet form used in the same insulation work
Alloys (category listing names)	Roll jacketing coil in 1100, 1060, 1235, 1200, 3003, 3105, 5052; insulating jacketing foil in 1100, 1145, 1235
Moisture barrier (category listing name)	Kraft paper for moisture barrier is a named product in the same jacketing category
Gauges	The category listing names the products without a gauge table — gauges confirmed per enquiry

Two specification questions dominate jacketing orders, and both belong in the first enquiry. The first is surface: smooth or stucco-embossed (the embossed sheet family on this site is the same insulation world in sheet form). The second is the underside: the same category names a kraft paper for moisture barrier product, so state whether your order needs the barrier version or plain coil — the quotation confirms which documented product your specification maps to.

Jacketing is bought by area coverage in practice — coil width against pipe circumference and overlap. Send the pipe sizes or the total area with the width you run, plus the surface and barrier answers above, and the quotation can be built on the documented jacketing coil product.

Jacketing orders: what the quotation needs

Jacketing is measured in covered area and bought as coil, so the quotation arithmetic runs on width and total area rather than sheet counts. Pipe work consumes width by circumference plus overlap and insulation thickness — a 100 mm pipe under 50 mm of insulation jackets at roughly 200 mm diameter before overlap — so the enquiry that prices fastest states the insulation outside diameters or the coil width already standardised by your fabricators. The two open specification questions (surface: smooth or embossed; underside: barrier or none) are the remaining variables, and both are answered at quotation: the category listing names a kraft paper for moisture barrier product, so a barrier underside is a documented product in this family — but the listing does not state that every jacketing coil carries it, so which version your order maps to is confirmed rather than assumed. The stucco sheet page is the reference for the embossed surface in this catalogue; if your jacketing standard calls for stucco coil, say so explicitly and the answer will confirm whether the jacketing coil is supplied embossed or whether the sheet product is the documented route.

Jacketing programmes are usually framework business — a fabricator or insulation contractor draws coil against a project schedule rather than ordering project by project. The enquiry that starts such a relationship states the standard widths and surface the yard runs, the barrier question, and the expected draw pattern; the quotation then fixes the commercial frame — per-ton coil supply against the documented jacketing product, with widths and surface settled — inside which individual project call-offs stay simple.