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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ExxonMobil signs an alliance agreement with Axens

ExxonMobil announced that ExxonMobil catalysts and Licensing LLC and Axens have signed a licensing alliance agreement to allow Axens to provide ExxonMobil’s FLEXICOKING™ technology and integrated resid conversion solutions.

Chi Zhang joins as Sverdrup Steel’s representative

Mr. Chi Zhang joins as Sverdrup Steel’s representative in the Chinese market. Mr. Zhang is very experienced in sales of high-performance alloys and has an extensive knowledge about the market.A further asset for both the customers and Sverdrup Steel is his technical expertise, that has been required through his education as a metallurgist and his previous employment at Outokumpu.

EMN signs DP deal & BGRIMM joins as Lead Plant Engineer

Euro Manganese Inc. (EMN) announced that the Company’s technical team has significantly progressed the design, engineering, planning and permitting of a high-purity electrolytic manganese metal (HPEMM) and high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) demonstration plant (the DP) for the Chvaletice Manganese Project (the Project), which will produce multi-tonne, high-purity manganese finished product samples for customer testing and qualification.

Board of thyssenkrupp Materials Services restructured

Following the appointment of Dr. Klaus Keysberg to the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp AG, the Board of the thyssenkrupp Materials Services business area is being partly restructured.

Garrison Crossing built with UR duplex stainless steel

As the city of Toronto keeps expanding, accessibility and connectivity are becoming key topics. To ensure a connection between downtown Toronto and the neighborhood of Fort York, the Garrison Crossing was built with UR 2205 Duplex stainless steel from ArcelorMittal Industeel.

Nuclear scientist focuses on stress corrosion cracking

Dr. So Aoki is a research scientist at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. For the past five years, he has researched the stress corrosion cracking mechanism of low carbon stainless steels used in light water reactor environments.

New research alliance for additive manufacturing

Together with the Swiss technology group Oerlikon and the industrial gas manufacturer Linde, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has entered into a research alliance for additive manufacturing (AM).

Galling is serious…but there are solutions

Galling is a form of wear that is caused by metal surfaces in gliding contact with one other, such as the potentially hundreds of stainless steel bolts and fasteners holding production equipment and its moving parts together. With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, industry players are advised to counter this threat.

A new pressure equipment certified by BASF

Additive manufacturing is a new manufacturing technology to produce parts that are used in both research and production plants at BASF.

3D Printing for the marine industry

The marine industry in general has been slow to embrace the 3D printing concept. The use of continuous liquid metal deposition under computer numerical control has created opportunities to produce complex shapes such as forgings and castings whilst avoiding the need for expensive tooling and the time delays in fabricating moulds. Notwithstanding this slow start, development work at Delft Technical University in 2017 has led to the production of the world’s first metal deposited marine propeller.