News

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.

If you wish to include your news release on our website and email newsletter, please feel free to contact the editor.

Upgrades for power plants

Basler Electric and E Squared Power Systems have formed an alliance to provide complete turnkey power plant excitation retrofits.

Electrolysis plant to Norway

Norsk Hydro (Oslo, Norway) has commissioned Uhde GmbH in Dortmund with the construction of a chlor-alkali electrolysis plant with a capacity of 130,000 tpy of chlorine and 146,000 tonnes/year of caustic soda solution.

Cork pharma plant

ALTANA Pharma AG (Konstanz, Germany,) is set to lodge a formal planning application for its proposed production facility at the IDA Industrial Estate, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork, Ireland.

Lathe facilitates precision cylindrical welding

Orbimatic has released the Varioturn RS 80-1R precision welding lathe.

Nuclear reactor vessel closure head replacements

Framatome ANP Inc. and Washington Group International, Inc. have announced that their SGT Ltd. joint venture has signed a contract with Florida Power & Light Company to provide engineering and construction services for the replacement of reactor vessel closure heads at four nuclear power generating units

Texas water desalination project

Brownsville, Texas and the Rio Grande Valley will soon have access to another water source. The Southmost Regional Water Authority's desalination plant will convert 9.5 million gallons of salty groundwater into drinking every day.

Computer learning package

The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) has prepared Stainless SteelCAL, a computer-aided learning package sponsored by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF).

BSSA reports

The British Stainless Steel Association (BSSA) has published a report aimed at targeting designers and specifiers in applications for stainless steel with significant market potential.

Trojan wins water contracts

Trojan Technologies Inc. has been awarded four new contracts totalling more than GBP 1.1 million pounds.

BASF builds in Minden

BASF Aktiengesellschaft’s Fine Chemicals division is expanding its production site for pharmaceutical active ingredients in Minden, Germany, and is investing an eight-digit sum in the construction of a new multi-product plant.