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Our dedicated news department gathers news and press releases from around the world to bring our community the latest developments in the stainless steel industry. Here you can find news involving the people and companies involved in the manufacturer, supply and use of corrosion resistant alloys (CRAs).

Topics such as tubes & pipes, cladding, offshore, chemical process industry, welding & fabrication, 13Cr stainless steels, titanium, nickel alloys, pulp & paper and duplex stainless steels are covered as well as interviews with materials specialists, manufacturer and end users alike.

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SSW gets off to flying start

Stainless Steel World 2001 Conference and Expo took off on Tuesday 12 November at 8.15am with Chairman Michael Renner's opening speech.

New brochure from Spectro

Spectro has introduced a 12-page brochure of its petroleum analysers and monitors.

World’s largest deepwater oil processing project

Fluor Corporation and AMEC have announced that their Fluor Daniel/AMEC alliance (AFD) has been named by Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea as its subcontractor to design and manage a major portion of what will be the world's largest deepwater crude oil production facility.

Start-up of mill stand at Böhler Bleche

A new three-high mill stand has been successfully completed for the rolling of special steel at Böhler Bleche GmbH, Austria.

Allvac wins award to develop casting technology

Allvac, an Allegheny Technologies Incorporated company, and joint recipient General Electric Company Corporate Research and Development have been awarded a contract to develop a new technology to enable the production of very large nickel-based superalloy ingots required for the next generation of high-efficiency land-based turbines for power generation.

Chinese power plant alliance

H-share Beijing Datang Power Generation has forged an alliance with Aluminium Corp of China (Chalco) for a power project in Shanxi province.

Shell plant tour great success

Stainless Steel World 2001 Conference's pre-conference seminar and technical plant tour at Shell Pernis was a great success.

Swaging units to reduce installation time and cost

Swagelok Company has introduced the Swagelok air-actuated hydraulic swaging unit (AHSU), the industry’s first air-actuated device for swaging multiple fractional and metric tube-fitting sizes.

L. & T. may bid to build India power plant

Larsen & Toubro Ltd may bid for construction of a nuclear power plant to be built by the Indian government, with support from Russia, in Tamilnadu state, a company official has said.

Kvaerner secures contracts from Shell UK

Kvaerner has been awarded a Frame Agreement from Shell UK Exploration and Production, for the supply of subsea umbilicals.