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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.

Stainless steel cable ties a growing market

In terms of revenue, the global stainless steel cable ties market is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of ~5% during the forecast period, owing to numerous factors, states a recent market report.

Stainless charm in Venice

A recent project in Venice, Italy, was undertaken to produce a uniform range of municipal water taxi pontoons.

Stainless steel and fire resistance

What is the fire rating of stainless steel? This is a common enquiry in the construction industry, especially with the current concerns about flammable cladding. The three major branches to this question are addressed in this article.

New tanks for Haacht Brewery

The rising popularity of its special beers meant that Belgium’s third-largest beer brewery needed to expand. New specialist stainless steel brewing tanks were required.

Featured Story: Working with a myriad of heat exchangers

Located at Rotterdam in The Netherlands, Shell’s Pernis facilities form part of the largest refinery in Europe and one of the biggest in the...

The role of stainless steel in offshore applications

Stainless steels, including duplexes and super duplexes are of enormous benefit to the offshore oil and gas industry. They offer reduced weight, increased strength and corrosion resistance, and favourable lifecycle costs, compared to other materials.

On board with marine scrubbers: Resilient solutions for lower emissions

Ever-tightening sulphur oxide (SOx) emission regulations are increasing the use of marine scrubbers globally. Scrubbers operate in a highly corrosive environment and require the resilience of nickel-containing alloys to prevent failure.

Shortage of engineers starting to impact industry

According to reports from various countries, there is a shortage of qualified engineers in general across many industries. If the public and the private sectors are not pro-active, this shortage could lead to significant economic losses and collateral damage. The good news is that there many ‘fixes’ but, given the complexity of the issue, a comprehensive approach is required.

Swedish industry joins forces for electrical heating

The Swedish Energy Agency has granted a project that will evaluate the potential of replacing gas-fired furnaces with electrically heated furnaces for material heating. The goal is to reduce CO2 emissions through better energy efficiency and reduced loss of material.

Tubes for demanding applications

The rolling process for the production of seamless tubes was invented by the Mannesmann brothers in 1885 in Remscheid, Germany. Today the Mannesmann Stainless Tubes team is proud of its long heritage and is committed to the continuous development products to support the most demanding of customer needs and applications.