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.

Featured Story – Sun Mark Stainless: the evolving arm of Sunrise Group

What does trust, reliability, and commitment look like in the global stainless steel market? For Mr. Pratik Shah of Sun Mark Stainless, the answer is best given in the form of an anecdote: “In 2014, a client placed a large order with us. Then the market price suddenly increased by more than $500 per ton before the order had been processed.

Featured Story – Hempel Special Metals: Alloy 24 resurrected to tackle demanding applications

The Hempel Special Metals Group is an international sales specialist for highperformance materials in demanding industries such as implants, offshore, aviation and the process industry. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story – TUBACEX builds on its value proposition with new capabilities

Over recent years TUBACEX has made significant progress towards its vision of becoming an integrated supplier of tubular solutions in stainless steel. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story – Langley Alloys: striding confidently into the future

With over eighty years of experience, Langley Alloys provides a range of high-performance duplex and super duplex stainless steels, nickel-based alloys, and unique copper-nickel alloys for the harshest of conditions, whether it’s for sub-sea systems at great depths, oil and gas industry components operating under intense pressures, or the aggressive environments found within modern chemical plants. Stainless Steel World News last interviewed company members in November 2018.

Featured Story – NSSC – continuous improvement and upgrade to expand synergy effects

Following the successful integration of three business units to create NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel Corporation last year, the company has grown from strength to strength. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story: Mannesmann Stainless Tubes, Ready for the future

When Stainless Steel World met with the team at Mannesmann Stainless Tubes, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were still evident. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story – Kobelco become Maruichi; commitment to quality remains unchanged

On June 1, Kobelco Steel Tube Co., Ltd. changed its name to Maruichi Stainless Tube Co., Ltd. The company continues to provide a stable supply of high-quality seamless stainless pipes and tubes. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story- BUTTING – More than pipes

BUTTING is a renowned pipe specialist with a worldwide reputation. More than 44,000 tons of its longitudinally welded stainless steel pipes and clad pipes are used in many industrial sectors each year. Read our Featured Story.

Featured Story – Reaching for the skies…aerospace propels HARALD PIHL to greater heights

The past year has seen records shattered left and right at Swedish distributor HARALD PIHL. The recent years have been a long period of rapid growth, from turnover and new global locations to investments in value-added services. The start of 2020 has been a roller coaster ride including continued growth but also facing the virus crisis spread across the world and the drastic change of the business climate.

Featured Story – IMOA publishes updated Life Cycle Inventory Dataset

The International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) has published an updated Life Cycle Inventory dataset for Molybdenum Products for Metallurgical Applications.