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.

Tenmat secures 2nd Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Tenmat Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of highly technical composite materials, has announced that they have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Outstanding Achievement in International Trade for the second year in a row.

NRG plans to propose 3 new NY plants

newsitemNRG Energy has plans to offer up to three proposals for a new natural gas-fired plant to replace the nuclear reactors at Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York, according to a report from Reuters.

A new VX1000 for Schmolz + Bickenbach

The Schmolz + Bickenbach Guss Gruppe is a market and quality leader in the area of special steel casting in Europe.

Outokumpu supplies lean duplex for Nevada plant

newsitemOutokumpu has won another contract for a pioneering Crescent Dunes solar plant project in Tonopah, Nevada, USA.

Helix announces BP contract for Q5000

newsitemHelix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced that it has entered into a five-year contract with BP to provide well intervention services to BP in the US Gulf of Mexico with Helix’s deepwater well intervention semisubmersible vessel, the Q5000, currently being constructed in Singapore.

Keighley Labs achieves Nadcap accreditation

Keighley Laboratories’s Technical Services division has achieved Nadcap accreditation for a Materials Testing Laboratory (MTL), a status recognised by the majority of global aerospace primes as a mark of quality assurance excellence.

EnerMech secures GBP 16M contract

EnerMech, a mechanical engineering services company, has been awarded a process services contract by BG Group worth up to GBP 16M.

Former Dounreay employee lands ROV position

Mr. Kevin Macleod of Caithness, who was working as an instrument technician with Johnson Controls at Dounreay until recently, has been taken on as an apprentice ROV pilot technician with Fugro, one of the world’s largest ROV operators.

SENER opens office in Brazil

Engineering and technology group SENER has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil. The company establishes an operating and permanent division in the country made up of about 300 Brazilian professionals specialized in engineering and construction that will carry out projects in the fields of power and process, civil engineering and architecture, aerospace and marine engineering.

Essar to get mining rights in Zimbabwe

newsitemIndustry and Commerce Minister Mr Welshman Ncube said that there are no sticking issues to the transfer of mining rights to Essar Global which acquired a 60% stake in Ziscosteel from the Zimbabwean government. However, Minister Ncube said that it was only a matter of time before the government transferred the mining and prospecting rights over Ripple Creek and Mwanesi Range to the Indian steel company. He said that “As far as I know there are no sticking points because all the matters are covered by specific Cabinet resolutions, the mining claims whether it is on the Ripple Creek or Buchwa, they agreed they have already written letters for the transfer of those.