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 pool reactor from the KIMA fertilizer plant in Aswan, Egypt. The plant was designed based on Stamicarbon’s technology. Photo provided by Stamicarbon.

Dynamic duplex materials: strong and sustainable

Duplex Stainless Steels are becoming more and more indispensible in water management and architecture projects, and 3D printing and WAAM
UK metals sector optimistic despite trade, energy & labour challenges

UK metals sector optimistic despite trade, energy & labour challenges

According to a report from the UK Metals Council, the sector faces challenges but has reasons to be optimistic.
stainless steel propeller

Stainless steel grade 431; the better choice for propellers

Shrikumar Chakraborty shows how stainless steel grade 431 is better suitable for propellers than mode traditiononal metals such as aluminium
Induction annealing of welded pipes.

Venus Pipes & Tubes: On the way to becoming India’s largest manufacturer of stainless...

Sonja Wingels talked to Stefan Müller-Bernhardt, Dhruv Patel and Thomas de Vos of Venus Pipes & Tubes regarding the company's growth.
A large-scale desalination and power plant Dubai.

Water in the Middle East – tackling a chronic shortage

Joanne McIntyre talks about possibilities to deal with water scarcity in the Middle East, such as desalination and advanced storage.
Welder wearing fall safety body harness

Stainless steel welding characteristics & suitability with dissimilar metals

A.K Vaish et. al. discuss the mechanism of the welding of stainless steels to different other types of steel and metals.
The water gate under construction.

Kamihirai Flood Gate: a stainless steel solution to global climate change

To help against the effects of climate change, NSSC has built the Kamihirai water flood gates out of stainless steel.
The Headquarter of A.D. Tubi Inossidabili in Casnate con Bernate (CO) Italy.

A.D. Tubi Inossidabili and CPC Inox: complementary leading companies for Cardinali Holding

Stainless Steel World's Joanne McIntyre talks to Mr Stefano Cardinali about how Cardinali Holdings' acquisition of A.D. Tubi benefits both companies
The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (right) is the flagship for the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class RJ Stratchko/Released).

US Navy installs metal AM on board USS Bataan

Meltio and Philips installed a wire-laser metal 3D printer on USS Bataan with the purpose of printing spare parts and repairs.
Scanning Acoustic Microscopy has attracted the interest of design engineers in the semiconductor, aerospace, and energy industries.

Advanced SAM validates integrity of diffusion bonds

James Chater talks about the water conservation, recycling, conversion, desalination and the role stainless steel plays in this.