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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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Liquid and gas filters

Boll & Kirch, a manufacturer of automatic filtration equipment, has launched a new range of liquid and gas filters – showing for the first time at Offshore Europe 2005.

USA: environmental project

Skanska has been contracted to perform upgrades at the 26th Ward water pollution control plant located in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

New cut-off wheel

J. Walter Inc. introduces the Zip type 27 cut-off wheel.

VirTual freeze drying

The new VirTual freeze drying system is based upon the VirTis Ultra series freeze dryers. The VirTual range is suitable for pilot scale, bulk or high vapour load, rapid freeze drying applications.

India: petrochemicals plant

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will be investing in its Hazira petrochemicals plant within the next year.

High capacity load cells

The CCD range of high capacity compression load cells from Applied Measurements are now available with an accuracy of 0.1% enabling them to be used as reference standards.

North Sea: expansion project

Contracts worth a total of NOK 590 million have recently been awarded by Statoil for its Skinfaks development and Rimfaks expansion project in the North Sea.

Submersible level sensor

Sensortechnics’ new KTE6000CS series offers level measurement for ranges from 2.5m water column (250 mbar) full scale.

SS air motors

Aerosol filling equipment company Aerofill, has specified Parker Hannifin P1V-S series stainless steel air motors during the design and development of a new aerosol filling adjustment system.

Italy: refinery agreement

Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has agreed rto provide engineering services for Italiana Energia Servizi SpA.