Company News

In this section you can find updates from suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators and stockists of stainless steel material. This company news section is updated regularly with the latest company news from within the global stainless steel world community. If you wish to include your news release on our website and email newsletter, please feel free to contact the editor.

Lloyd’s Register Energy, MaxGrip advance RBI software

Lloyd’s Register Energy, compliance, integrity and specialist risk consultancy services company, is forming a strategic alliance with MaxGrip. The alliance sees the development of a new risk-based inspection (RBI) software module called ‘strEAM+ RBI’.

Enerquip upgrades Wisconsin facility

Enerquip, a company that specialises in a wide variety of shell and tube heat exchangers, broke ground on construction of facility improvements to meet its plans for continued growth. Enerquip provides heating and cooling equipment for production plants and the OEM's and system integrators that support them.

Sandmeyer Steel expands marketing department

Kathleen Carr has joined Sandmeyer Steel Company in the newly created position of Marketing Analyst. Carr is the stepdaughter of Sandmeyer Steel's president and CEO, Ronald P.

TMK acquires metal scrap company

TMK, producer of tubular products, acquired 100% interest in ChermetServis-Snabzhenie. The deal value totalled about EUR 38.3M.

Best innovators award for Sandvik

Sandvik in Chomutov, Czech Republic, has been announced as the winner of the prestigious award Best Innovator of the year in the Czech Republic – recognition of the company's way of working with innovation.

IPP Group acquires SMS

newsitemIPP Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of the business and assets of Specialised Machining Services Limited (SMS) effective 16 February 2015. SMS, based in Deeside have for a number of years been a market leader in the field of precision machining, particularly in subsea applications.

Abbey forges ahead

Family run company, Abbey Forged Products based in Sheffield at the heart of the stainless steel industry in the UK, have enjoyed a very successful time in the last year.

Phased commissioning begins at Pellet Plant #3

newsitemA ceremonial launch of the main drive of Pellet Plant #3 at Mikhailovsky GOK, part of Metalloinvest, took place in the Kursk region.

ThyssenKrupp, Fraunhofer, and LIMO’s new project

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, the Fraunhofer Institute for Materials and Beam Technology IWS, and LIMO have initiated development work on a new laser technology that the partners will use to improve the properties of steel strip surfaces.

ABB electrical systems for floating LNG facilities

ABB, the power and automation technology group, won a contract worth more than USD 50M to supply the electrical system for commercial floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities to be owned by Malaysian oil and gas company PETRONAS.