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.

    Black marking: a laser method for stainless

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    Picosecond laser-based systems provide a turnkey solution for permanent, high-contrast marking of stainless. They are ideal for applications from unique device identifier (UDI) marking of medical devices to consumer appliances, with no negative impact on surface passivation.

    Featured Story: Owning Your Work, An Interview with Rob Crena De Iongh

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    After almost four decades of working for one of the top five oil and gas companies, Rob Crena De Iongh has gained invaluable knowledge...

    Spiders and ants inspire unsinkable metal

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    University of Rochester researchers, inspired by diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants, have created a metallic structure that is so water repellent, it refuses to sink—no matter how often it’s forced into water or how much it is damaged or punctured.

    Featured Story – Growth opportunities for superalloys

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    Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Growth Opportunities for Superalloys, finds that the industry is expanding at a rapid pace. The increasing application of superalloys in sectors such as industrial gas turbines, aerospace, heat exchangers, oil and gas, and chemical processing industries is pushing demand.

    Casting upgrade welding – requirements, techniques and concepts

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    The world of fusion welding has effected many industries and fabrication opportunities worldwide. Countless industrial items are assembled using a vast number of different welding techniques governed by numerous rules, codes and norms. Casting upgrade welding is a very specialised series of operations. The casting process offers a unique opportunity as the casting is an economic preform. Weld upgrade is inherent to the process.

    Schneider Weisse: high demands on equipment & process line design

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    German, or better put Bavarian Weissbier (wheat beer), has a long tradition. Dating back more than a century, its recipe hasn’t changed. What has changed is the market. Weissbier has become a global product, which has placed higher demands on the production and the individual equipment components.

    50-year old furnace upgraded

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    When Sandvik Materials Technology needed to upgrade a critical furnace that was purchased half a century ago, it turned to ABB for a modern solution.

    Arctic LNG 2: the gas that comes in from the cold

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    The Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas, both of which contain enormous gas reserves, are solidifying Russia’s position in the global oil and gas market. With the advance of the Arctic LNG-2 project, production is expected to increase in the coming years to serve Asian and European demand.

    New superalloys need careful purging during welding

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    Significant developments recently have resulted in the introduction of new nickel alloys that offer major improvements in mechanical properties. Not least is Inconel 740H1, an alloy offering enhanced resistance to coal ash and therefore of considerable interest to fossil fuel fired boiler manufacturers.

    Applications of nickel alloys for piping and valves

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    Inconel alloys such as Inconel 625, 718 and X750 are widely for piping and valves in the offshore sector. Although these alloys are used widely for both internal and external corrosion resistance, they have different applications such as increasing mechanical strength, reducing friction and galling, facilitating cycling and mitigating fatigue stress.
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