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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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Veritas Steel hires new president & CEO

newsitemVeritas Steel, a portfolio company of Atlas Holdings, hired Tracy Glende as the president and CEO. Glende brings over 20 years of global management experience, commercial, and operational expertise and a highly successful track record to Veritas.

DMT commissions by-product plant for SAIL

newsitemThe Essen-based consulting and engineering company DMT together with the EPC company McNally Bharat Engineering (MBE) from Kolkata, India, has designed, engineered, supplied, built and now put into operation a complete by-product plant for the cleaning of coke oven gas.

HMTL’s Unit III commissioned

Heavy Metal & Tubes Ltd. (HMTL) has recently announced the commissioning of its manufacturing facility, Unit III, for hot finish seamless tubes/pipes in carbon steel and alloy steel.Unit III has an annual capacity of approximately 75,000MTPA, has already started commercial production, and has executed orders from Indian refineries and export jobs.

Severstal JV begins production of blanks

newsitemSeverstal-Gonvarri-Kaluga, a joint venture between OAO Severstal and Gonvarri, and part of OAO Severstal’s Russian Steel division, began producing blanks for interior and exterior parts of the Volkswagen Jetta. This is the second model of Volkswagen to use parts manufactured at Severstal-Gonvarri-Kaluga and then stamped at Gestamp-Severstal-Kaluga, Severstal’s joint venture with Gestamp.

Rostov governor, Gazprom discuss gasification

The Gazprom headquarters hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, chairman of the company's Management Committee, and Vasily Golubev, Governor of the Rostov Region. The parties addressed the progress with and the prospects of the cooperation, in particular, the regional gasification issues.

Shah Deniz project to use Nexans’ DEH system

newsitemNexans’ Direct Electrical Heating (DEH) cable systems will be installed to help in maintaining the reliable flow of products from the Shah Deniz field, located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.

Huta Š?abędy orders HF tube welding line

newsitemHuta Š?abędy has ordered an HF tube welding line with API finishing facility from SMS Meer, Germany, for its works in Gliwice, Poland.

Vallourec wins supercritical power plant order

Vallourec, the premium tubular solutions provider, has been selected to supply 10,000 tons of tubes for the construction of the Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant (SSPP) in Saudi Arabia. Deliveries are scheduled for the first, second and third quarters of 2014.

Outokumpu wins duplex stainless steel contract

Outokumpu secured a contract to deliver 22,000t of Outokumpu Duplex 2205 stainless steel to a natural gas field project in Oman. Deliveries will start during the first half of 2014 and continue until 2016.

NSSMC and UTC2 sign steel structure memorandum

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) and joint stock company UTC2, a technical consulting company whose parent equity-holder is the University of Transport and Communications (UTC) of Vietnam, have executed a memorandum respecting the spread of steel structures, aiming to spread the use of steel pipe piles, steel sheet piles and other steel structures in Vietnam.