Company News

Brazilian company Vale is a finalist for the 2014 Swedish Steel Prize for developing a highly durable mining screener for iron ore in high strength steel.The Swedish Steel Prize is awarded annually by SSAB to recognise the most innovative design utilising high-strength steel.

The Timken Company's board of directors has elected Maria A. Crowe a director of the company for a term that expires at its May 2015 annual meeting.

Wärtsilä Shipham Valves has extended its full range of duplex and super duplex stainless steel valves to cover higher pressure ratings.

Nordex has received a further contract from Lithuania for the ‘Mazeikiai’ project located in the north-west of the country, close to the town of the same name.

Harald Pihl, Swedish distributor and stockholder of nickel based alloys, titanium and refractory metals, has opened a new office in Bergen, Norway.Kjetil Aksdal joins the company to head the new office from his sales and marketing role with Titanium Industries.

BG Brasil celebrated 20 years of history in 2014. Over the last 20 years, the company has grown with Brazil and is now among the leading private oil and gas producers in the country. It has achieved record production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, only counting BG Brasil’s share in the pre-salt exploration blocks operated by Petrobras in the Santos Basin.

Enel Green Power has been awarded the right to sign 20-year energy supply contracts in Brazil for a total of 344MW of wind and photovoltaic (PV) capacity following the ‘Leilão de Reserva’ public tender.

NLMK Group received the status of preferred category A supplier of transformer steel by the Alstom international group.

In 1887, Scotsman James Blyth built the first ever wind turbine for power generation. At that time, he had no idea how big and powerful wind turbines would be more than 125 years later.

BS Stainless are currently finalising the details of a new jacketing system, which is the result of a powerful two-year project focused on sound reduction, in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University.SoundMet is a BS Stainless trademark and had been designed with three main principles in mind – effective damping of sound and vibration, a reduction in person-hours, thus labour costs and the prevention of corrosion under insulation (CUI).