Abstract: A method of applying a metallic coating to metallic sealing and/or threaded regions of steel pipes which are under high pressure per unit of surface by a pretreatment of the surface to be coated which consists of a cleaning and degreasing and an electrolytic deposition of a layer of tin by a first heat treatment at a temperature between about 150.degree. and about 200.degree. C. and a second brief heat treatment above the melting point of tin with subsequent cooling is provided. A metallic coating which is formed using said method is also provided.

Abstract: The thread of tubing to be used in the oil and gas industry and possibly additional services such as fee ing surfaces are cleaned, degreased, and pickled, nickel-coated without electric current at a layer thickness of about 1 micrometer, followed by electrolytic plating, preferably tin-plating, followed by storage at a temperature within the range from 150.degree. to about 200.degree., which is followed by brief heating for melting the tin coating, whereupon the article is quenched.

Abstract: Steel is to be austenitic-ferritic at a 1:1 ratio of austenite to ferrite and contains particular alloy elements. The principal feature is, limiting the sulphure content to below 0.005% in order to obtain a particularly high toughness transversely to the main direction of working.