Company News

SIJ (Slovenian Steel Group), a leading producer of stainless and special steels in Europe and Slovenia, has recently begun the operations of a new company, Ravne Systems d.o.o., established by a merger between Ravne Knives d.o.o., Sistemske tehnike d.o.o.

Tubos Reunidos, the international company has its new facility equipped with DANOBAT machines for the manufacture of threaded pipes and hoses.

Norsk Titanium AS has recently declared that Dawne S. Hickton has been elected to Norsk Titanium’s board of directors. Hickton served as Vice Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer of publicly traded RTI International Metals (RTI) from 2007 to 2015.

NVBOTS, provider of automated, enterprise 3D printing solutions has recently established NVLABS, dedicated to meeting the needs of any company seeking to commercialize their innovations through ultra-high-speed, multi-metal 3D printing.

Weld Purge Monitors® are an essential instrument to help obtain non-oxidised, zero colour welds by monitoring the oxygen content, ideal when purging with inert gas, when welding metals such as stainless steel, titanium and nickel alloy where a high quality weld is required. Advancing in the science of manufacturing beyond other designs, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT®’s market leading PurgEye® 100 helps to eliminate the post weld cleaning costs.

Alcoa, one of the lightweight metals leaders has declared that Karl Tragl will become President of the Company’s Transportation and Construction Solutions Group. Tragl’s appointment will be effective from February 15, 2016.

TWI has recently appointed one of the world-leading experts on friction welding, Dr Mike Russell, as its Operations Director.

Schuler group, German equipment manufacturer, has recently opened its new research and demonstration centre for hot stamping at its home base in Göppingen, Germany.

French stainless steel wire rod producer Ugitech has awarded the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) to Primetals Technologies for its custom engineering solution to upgrade and automate the compacting and coil handling process in the company’s rod mill, which recently achieved all performance goals. The upgrade for its stainless steel rod mill in Ugine, France includes a new vertical compactor and unloading station design which allows the automatic loading of loose coils from a floor mounted cradle onto a vertical compacting system, replacing a former manually operated secondary processing system.

Outokumpu has recently appointed Steve Letnich as the Vice President of Sales for Coil Americas. Steve joins Outokumpu with more than 20 years of commercial experience within the metals industry, most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at A.M.