Featured Story

Our Featured Story archive is a collection of the Featured Story’s which have been published in our magazine and taken pride of place as the ‘unique feature article’ on our Stainless Steel World home page. In addition to industry updates, market news and topical issues of the day the Feature Story provides an interesting mix of company profiles, in-depth technical articles, reports from major end users and features projects in a variety of industries ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to the architecture, power generation, medical and food and beverage industries.

BIBUS GROUP: a family of experts with global reach

BIBUS METALS Group is one of the leading stockists and suppliers of bar, sheet, coils, plate, tube/pipe, wire and strip in high-performance materials.

Botanickel: using plants to extract nickel

Using plants to extract nickel from soil and then turning that nickel into stainless steel maysound like science fiction.

Kalbarri Skywalk

Stainless steel has contributed to one of Western Australia’s architectural masterpieces overlooking the Murchison River Gorge.

Sluice gates brave the shifting tides

Thanks to their strength and corrosion resistance, molybdenum-containing duplex stainless steels are the ideal construction material.

Filler Metals used in the Nuclear Industry

Special attention must be paid to the welding procedure and the production and delivery of welding consumables.

Oman’s largest duplex pipeline: best practices & fabrication experience

This article discusses procurement and construction challenges and the best practices developed to overcome these challenges.

Schmidt + Clemens: Innovations to increase customer productivity

The Schmidt + Clemens Group has expanded worldwide, particularly with tube systems manufactured using centrifugal and static mold casting processes.

Powerful mill produces first plate

The rolling force of 109 MN in relation to the roll barrel length of 4.3 meters provides the mill a very innovative design and high environmental compatibility.

Tubes and pipes benefitting from high-growth industries

The current economic uncertainty has left the tube, pipes and fittings sector relatively unscathed.

Printing a stainless steel dragon

Not only do they have their use in highly technical applications; sometimes these structures can take the shape of beautiful art.