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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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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

Wild Goose tender

Wild Goose Storage Inc. is planning to expand its facility located in Butte County in northern California and connected to PG&E for service commencing as early as 1 April 2003.

Foster Wheeler to build power plant in Ireland

Foster Wheeler Ltd. has announced today that its Finland-based subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, has been awarded a USD 342.2 million power plant contract by the Irish state-owned Electricity Supply Board (ESB).

Valve transplant restores incinerator

A vacuum separator on a municipal incinerator has been restored to better-than-new state following the fitting of a double-flap gate valve from European Gate Valves.

DSM expands Dyneema production

DSM will expand its production capacity for Dyneema, the super-strong polyethylene fibre, by at least 40% by building two new production lines in Greenville (North Carolina, USA) with a combined capacity of 1300/1600 tons per year (depending on product grade mix).

Lybian EPIC

Bouygues Offshore has signd an EPIC contract for a subsea production system, offshore Libya with Agip Gas BV.

Uhde lands China contract

Dortmund-based Uhde GmbH has been awarded a contract by Sinopec International in Beijing to engineer China’s biggest vinyl chloride (VCM) plant with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year.

Mexican water contract

Earth Tech has been awarded a contract from Fideicomiso del Sistema de Aguas Residuales del Alto Rio Blanco (FIRIOB) for a wastewater treatment plant in the city of Orizaba, about 200km SE of Mexico City.

Stainless butter packer

APV recently redesigned and launched the fully automatic Butter Bulk Packer, type FMG.