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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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Swagelok honours “spirit of invention”

Swagelok Compan has honoured 53 active and retired Swagelok associates whose patent-winning inventions are protected by 500 current or pending company patents in 23 countries world-wide.

Prize winners at CTI

Castings Technology International (CTI), the Sheffield-based cast metals research and development organisation, has been playing host to two young Australian competition winners.

Bespoke levelling

Nu-Tech Engineering Services has manufactured a set of heavy-duty levelling feet, tailor-made to suit the requirements of a client in the pharmaceutical industry.

Giant ammonia/urea complex in Oman

Technip-Coflexip, in a 50/50 joint venture with Snamprogetti, has just signed, with Oman-India Fertilizer Company (OMIFCO), a lump-sum turn-key contract worth about USD 770 million for the design and construction of a fertiliser complex in Oman.

BASF to build chemical plants in Shanghai

BASF will build a new integrated production facility for polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the newly developed Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) at Caojing, Shanghai, China.

Miniature bellows provide flexible couplings

Rino Industries has added a miniature bellows couplings to its range of mechanical couplings.

Equatorial Guinea offshore contract

FMC Technologies Inc. has announced that its FMC Energy Systems business has been awarded a contract worth about USD 100 million for subsea systems to be installed offshore Equatorial Guinea, Africa, by a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation.

North Sea oil deal

British engineering firm AMEC PLC has said that a joint venture in which it is a partner had signed a GBP 750 million pound seven-year deal to provide support services to North Sea oil producer Shell Expro.

New welding consumables for nuclear industry

Sandvik Steel has launched a new range of welding wire, covered and strip electrodes and fluxes for welding nuclear steam generator tubing.

Syrian petrochemical plant

Syria’s Ahmed Daaboul & Sons, a detergent manufacturer, and Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi are setting up a new USD 50 million alkylbenzene manufacturing plant, announced Zaher Daaboul, general manager.