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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.

The Duplex Dragon

Deep within the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, pipelines transport natural gas as it is extracted and refined for distribution throughout the country. However, gas leakage has been a recurrent issue as a result of pipeline corrosion. Enter the ‘Pipeline Dragon’: constructed entirely of molybdenum-containing 2205 duplex stainless steel, a new pipeline promises to reduce gas leakage, preventing environmental disaster while conserving resources.

Streamlining the H&I tubing market

Andreas Furukrona is Product Manager for hydraulic & instrumentation tubing at Sandvik Materials Technology. In this short interview, he spoke to Stainless Steel World about the H&I tubing market and the benefits of sustainable purchasing.

Duplex tanks facilitate CO2 reduction project

A recent project in the Netherlands to reduce CO2 emissions at a chemical production plant utilised duplex stainless steel for four large tanks.

Water delivery efficiency with stainless steel

Stainless steel is playing an important role in delivering effective infrastructure to achieve water savings, securing a sustainable environment and future for irrigation communities in Australia.

Chevron’s ultramodern LNG fleet

Chevron’s six newest liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers feature stainless steel containment tanks specially designed to reduce boiloff during transport. As global exports of natural gas continue to rise at a record-setting pace, the enhanced efficiency of Chevron’s new vessels will help the company remain competitive in an increasingly crowded market.

Nuclear scientist focuses on stress corrosion cracking

Dr. So Aoki is a research scientist at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. For the past five years, he has researched the stress corrosion cracking mechanism of low carbon stainless steels used in light water reactor environments.

Galling is serious…but there are solutions

Galling is a form of wear that is caused by metal surfaces in gliding contact with one other, such as the potentially hundreds of stainless steel bolts and fasteners holding production equipment and its moving parts together. With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, industry players are advised to counter this threat.

At the heart of the stainless steel industry

On the 30th of September, John Rowe will be leaving the offices of the International Stainless Steel Forum for the last time, having handed over the role of Secretary General to Tim Collins. In a joint interview, SSWN asked John and Tim to outline the role of the Secretary General and to touch on the challenges facing the stainless industry.

Precision stainless steel consumption growing

The global market for precision stainless steel (also known as thin strip) is expected to expand 1.5x in terms of market volume by the end of 2029. East Asia currently accounts for over 50% of consumption and this is expected to grow.

3D Printing for the marine industry

The marine industry in general has been slow to embrace the 3D printing concept. The use of continuous liquid metal deposition under computer numerical control has created opportunities to produce complex shapes such as forgings and castings whilst avoiding the need for expensive tooling and the time delays in fabricating moulds. Notwithstanding this slow start, development work at Delft Technical University in 2017 has led to the production of the world’s first metal deposited marine propeller.