Technical

Working together with global Stainless Steel Materials’ experts, engineers and companies involved in the manufacture or use of stainless steels/CRAs, we provide here a selection of original, non-commercial articles. These in-depth technical papers are written or co-written by operating companies, describing commercially viable new technologies and case histories of successful applications, backed by data. Topics include tubes & pipes, cladding, offshore, chemical process industry, welding & fabrication, 13Cr stainless steels, titanium, nickel alloys, pulp & paper and duplex stainless steels.

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Prelude still going strong

At 488 meters, Prelude is still the largest FLNG in the world. Joanne McIntyre gives an update on the 2015 Stainless Steel World article.

Honouring the past, inspiring our future

The National Spitfire Project is raising money to create a Duplex monument to those who designed, built, flew and maintained the Spitfire

Gordie Howe International Bridge

The Nickel Institute talks about the 2.5km long, 220 meter high Gordie Howe bridge currently under construction

An era of challenge for aviation

Swiss Steel Group explains the challenges the aviation industry is experiencing and how stainless steels may help solve this.

Reducing costs for a new hydrogen plant

A new hydrogen plant in Texas uses Sulzer pumps to improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption and capture CO2

INASSDA – serving the Indonesian stainless steel sector

Joanne McIntyre interviews Steven Sutiono, founding member of INASSDA, the Indonesian Stainless Steel Development Association

Blue Laser DED brings metal additive manufacturing mainstream

An interview with Lucas Hoppe, Meltio, about industrialising metal Additive Manufacturing using wire-laser metal 3D printer Meltio M600

Hyper duplex stainless steel: a sustainable choice for high-performance applications

Dr Vahid A. Hosseini (ESAB) explains what must be considered when choosing welding filler material in hyper duplex stainless steels

Finland moves to the forefront of Nordic materials research

The first plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope in Finland recently became operational at VTT in Espoo, Finland.

Ambient air cleaning for large-scale fabrication

Nederman's Chrich Meacher talks about ambient air cleaning for large-scale fabrication, to protect the wellbeing of workers.