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.

San Diego’s Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge, opened in 2011. Photo: Jeffrey Beall - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13268076

Spanning the decades: how stainless steel became the material of choice for modern bridges

James Chater talks about how stainless steels became the material of choice for bridges, and the (dis)advantages of several grades
Cost saving super duplex

Cost-saving super duplex

IMOA shows why 2507 Super Duplex stainless steel was chosen as the best option to replace a sintering facility exhaust stack

BUTTING creates new Plant Construction division

Stainless Steel World talked to BUTTING's Mr Marcel Bartels, and his appointment as CEO of the Plant Construction division.
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.