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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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Extra-heavy SS cable ties

Panduit has announced the launch of what it claims are its strongest ever, labour-saving stainless steel ball-locking cable ties.

UK North Sea: Wood reappointed

Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd, part of John Wood Group PLC, has been reappointed as one of BP’s two main engineering, modifications and maintenance (EMM) providers to its assets in the North Sea arena.

AMEC and Clough win Indonesia contract

AMEC has teamed up with Clough (Australia) to win a multi-million dollar contract from ConocoPhillips to provide operations and maintenance services for the Bayu-Undan development, SE Asia.

Welding SS exhausts

A new robotic facility entered production in July 2004 at the Coventry factory of first-tier automotive supplier, Unipart Eberspächer Exhaust Systems (UEES), to manufacture stainless steel exhausts for the Land Rover Discovery 3, due for launch this autumn, and for a future model of Range Rover.

Norway: another Ormen Lange contract

Hydro intends to give Aker Kvaerner the main installation contract for the new Ormen Lange onshore plant on the NW coast of Norway.

BASF to increase Ultrason production

BASF is to increase the production capacity for its high-temperature Ultrason® polymer resin by 20% at its Ludwigshafen site by the end of 2004.

AMEC wins North Sea contract

AMEC has been awarded a GBS 10 million contract by Petro-Canada Netherlands for engineering, design and procurement services for the De Ruyter development in the Dutch sector of the Southern North Sea.

BHP Billiton announces LNG site

BHP Billiton has selected a preferred site for a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Alternative to tube and bar

Spirol Industries is offering a range of standard spacers as a low-cost alternative to tube or steel bar.

Foster Wheeler to build power plant in Italy

Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract for a combined-cycle plant in Teverola, Italy.