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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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Super duplex pump

The Port Klang Power Station in Malaysia routinely faced "unacceptable" costs associated with downtime on their existing pumps.

Sandvik Steel UK merges with RGB

AB Sandvik Steel (Sweden) has announced that it is to merge Sandvik Steel UK and RGB Stainless Ltd.

Forth Welding & Cladding Services

Scottish company Forth Tool & Valve Ltd (FTV) has re-entered the weld cladding industry with the recent opening of Forth Welding & Cladding Services (FWC).

Joints in high-temperature alloys

A one-day meeting is to be held at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) on 20 November 2002.

TMR appoints manager

Dr Gary Carinci has joined TMR Stainless as a Senior Development Manager.

Tackling superalloys

A research project at Cranfield University has employed Holroyd's superabrasive Edgetek machines to achieve significant breakthroughs when machining nickel-based superalloys.

Corrocean moves

CorrOcean srl, the Italian office of CorrOcean, the supplier of corrosion monitoring services, has moved to a new address.

Foster Wheeler wins Dutch award

Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has been awarded a contract by Kuwait Petroleum Europoort for the revamp of a vacuum unit and some hydrodesulphurisation units at its refinery at Europoort, near Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Braemar award

Technip-Coflexip has announced that one of its UK entities, Coflexip Stena Offshore Ltd (CSOL), has been awarded the pipelines and subsea infrastructure EPIC contract from Marathon Oil UK Ltd for the Braemar field and the Brae B to Miller gas transfer pipeline developments in the Northern North Sea.

Shell pulls out of South Pars

Shell pulls South Pars plans