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.

The role of robotics in stainless steel welding

Ellie Gabel, Revolutionized, talks about how robotics improve productivity and help with automatic complex welding tasks

Built to Last: Nippon Yakin Kogyo celebrates 100 years of materials excellence

An interview with Mr Shigemi Urata, President and Representative Director, Nippon Yakin Kogyo on the company's past, present and future

Flexible pipes – workhorse of the offshore industry

Domenico Di Giambattista, Vice President, Flexible Pipe Systems (FPS) at Baker Hughes explains the use and advantages of flexible pipe

The world nickel market in 2025 – a growing surplus in an uncertain global...

Ricardo Ferreira and Francisco Pinto (INSG) talk about the world nickel prodcution, usage and pricing in 2024 and 2025

Understanding the evolution of CO2 footprint standards

The Life Cycle Assessment is a great tool to measure environmental impact of goods, but standardisation of the LCA is still a challenge

Chemical and petrochemical challenges

James Chater discusses the challenged that the chemical and petrochemical industry faces, with less demand and more regulation

Molybdenum: a key to carbon capture

Iris Rommerskirchen and Nicole Kinsman, IMOA, explain why molybdenum-containing materials are indispensable for CCUS

Outokumpu releases white paper on the future of steel

In a white paper, Outokumpu identifies five critical shifts to accelerate the green transition in steel production

Turbulent times for the aerospace industry

James Chater talks about the use of nickel, titanium and stainless steels in the aerospace industry and the impact of current events

Vasa receives new super duplex skeleton

Alleima helps preserving the slowly deteriorating 17th-Century ship Vasa by creating an internal skeleton of super duplex