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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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Metso to rebuild Quebec paper mill

Metso Paper will supply a major rebuild of on-line printing and writing super-calendered coated paper line to Gaspésia Papers in Chandler, Quebec.

Site found for biopharma plant in Switzerland

Lonza Group Limited (Basel, Switzerland) has selected a site for a cGMP facility that will produce microbial biopharmaceuticals.

Golden choice

Two 2205 duplex stainless steel elution columns over 12 metres long have been installed in a replacement project at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines in Western Australia.

Raccortubi: changes at the top

Raccortubi Group announces that Mr Ottavio Carollo has been appointed General Manager of Raccortubi.

W. Australian co-generation plants

Western Australia-based utility AlintaGas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Alcoa Australia to jointly develop co-generation power plants at Alcoa's alumina refineries in Western Australia.

South Pars 9 & 10 contract imminent

Iran's oil ministry is close to awarding a USD 1.6 billion contract for phases 9 and 10 of its giant South Pars gas field to a consortium headed either by Korea's LG Construction Co. or France's Technip-Coflexip SA (TKP), head of the Pars Oil and Gas Company said.

Biopharma plant for Canada

Dutch chemicals company DSM NV will invest EUR 7 million in a new biopharmaceutical plant in Canada.

Refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded, by Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co., a lump-sum turn-key contract worth about USD 480 million for the expansion of the Ruwais Refinery to modernise the existing facilities and to add new units for the production of unleaded gasoline and low sulphur gas oil.

South Pars contract “ready for signatureâ€?

Oil Minister Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh has said that the contracts for phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars Gas Field are ready to be signed.

Lukoil to build oil terminal in Leningrad region

Russian oil major Lukoil is to invest USD 150 million in the construction of an oil product terminal in the port of Vysotsk (Leningrad region), Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov said.