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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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Taiwan power project

ATI Allegheny Ludlum will supply specialty metals for a reactor building service-water piping system at a power plant in Taiwan.

Indonesia: fertiliser and particle board factories

PT Perkebunan Nusantara III and PT Surya Bumi Agro Langgeng agreed with China’s Guangcai Jing Xu Ltd Co. to build fertiliser and particle board factories in Indonesia.

Bayer in China

Bayer MaterialScience will invest EUR 2.1 billion worldwide by 2006 to modernise and expand its plants and facilities.

JSL ferro-chrome unit

JINDAL Stainless Ltd (JSL) completed the foundation work for its ferro-chrome furnace at Duburi in Orissa in October

Pressure sensor for sanitary use

The new 1700/1701 range of sensors from Gems Sensors features an integral diaphragm made of AISI 316 stainless steel.

USA: paper upgrade

Kadant Black Clawson Inc., a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., has received an order from Inland Empire Paper Company, Spokane, Washington, for a Liquid Cyclone™ cleaner and a SansGrit™ sand and grit separator.

Syria: power plant

The Syrian Minister of Electricity, Muneib Saem al-Dahr, has said that the European Investment Bank has approved a loan of EUR 200 million to finance a power transformation plant.

Digital welding technology

Fronius (the Netherlands) has developed a CrNi welding software for joining parts made from high-alloy steels.

Accurate measurement of gases and liquids

American Sensor Technologies Inc. has introduced a new line of differential pressure sensors.

China: Roche plant in Shanghai

Roche has announced that it is building a second high-tech manufacturing facility in Shanghai to produce the cancer medicine Xeloda and the transplantation medicine CellCept for the Chinese market as of 2006.