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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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New oxygen level monitors from HFT

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques' (HFT) hand held, battery driven PurgEye® 100, monitors oxygen levels from atmospheric level (20.94%) down to 100 ppm (0.01%).

EU supports iron production technology testing

The European Union has agreed to contribute EUR 7.4M towards testing a new iron production process being developed at Tata Steel’s IJmuiden steelworks in the Netherlands.

Drydocks World completes largest turret

Drydocks World, the provider of maritime and offshore services to the shipping, oil, gas and energy sectors, marked a major milestone with the completion of the world’s largest turret mooring system.

Gazprom, Gasunie to co-operate on small-scale LNG

newsitemThe Gazprom headquarters hosted a meeting between Alexey Miller, chairperson of the Gazprom Management Committee and Han Fennema, CEO and chairperson of the Executive Board of Gasunie.

Tethys appoints representative in Tajikistan

newsitemTethys Petroleum announced that, with effect from 6 July 2015, Ozodkhon Davlatshoev will join Tethys as director of the Representative Office of Tethys Tajikistan in Tajikistan. Ozodkhon joins Tethys from the Industrial Promotion Services/Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development in Central Asia, where he was responsible for the development and execution of high profile investment projects in Central Asia in the fields of Energy, Telecommunications, Banking and Industrials.

Wood Group wins onshore pipeline work

Wood Group has secured a USD 1M contract with Origin Energy to provide detailed design engineering for the onshore pipelines related to the Halladale, Black Watch & Speculant (HBWS) Natural Gas Project in South West Victoria, Australia. The HBWS gas fields are located in the offshore Otway Basin in Victoria but due to their proximity to shore, and to avoid sensitive marine environments, they are being drilled using extended reach drilling (ERD) techniques from onshore location and tied back to the existing Otway Gas Plant.

New stretcher leveller at Olympic Steel, Winder

Olympic Steel, a US metals service centre, announced that it has commenced operation of a new cut-to-length stretcher leveller at its Winder, Georgia, facility.

"To satisfy demand for higher strength steel able to withstand complicated laser cutting and other tight-tolerance downstream operations, Olympic Steel has long provided fabricators with perfectly levelled materials containing no coil memory, and thereby eliminating residual spring back", said Sean Heenan, general manager of the Winder operation.

Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new recycling process for Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants. They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust gases on a laboratory scale.

Mechel steel for Power of Siberia

Mechel, Russian mining and metals company, is supplying rebar, structural shapes and hardware rolls for construction of Power of Siberia and Altai gas pipelines.

Sun Valley selects Axium Process’ filters

Sun Valley, supplier of quality processed and raw nuts to European retailers and major blue chip manufacturers, recently purchased a number of bespoke filter systems designed and manufactured by filtration specialist Axium Process. The company, which traditionally used a sheet filter system for removing nutshell debris from oils, was looking for a flexible system capable of filtering from 2000micron down to 50micron that would require only a small footprint as well as being easy to maintain and clean.