The advantage of 202 stainless steel price is better than 304 stainless steel, most of the 200 series stainless steels sold on the Chinese market have almost no control of sulfur and carbon content in accordance with national standards, and manganese (and nitrogen) has replaced some or all of nickel to produce lower nickel content austenitic stainless steels.
The 200 series stainless steel was first developed in the United States as a substitute for the 300 series stainless steel during World War II. At that time, due to the war, nickel as a strategic material was strictly controlled by various countries, and the nickel supply in the United States was seriously insufficient.
