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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ATI signs a long-term agreement with BWX technologies

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated announced recently that it has signed a new long-term agreement with BWX Technologies, Inc.

Qilak LNG executes HOA with Exxonmobil

Alaska-based Qilak LNG Inc a Lloyds Energy company, announced recently that a Heads of Agreement (HOA) has been entered into with ExxonMobil Alaska Production Inc.

UR10e cobot to power the Vectis Cobot Welding Tool

Vectis Automation has chosen Universal Robots’ UR10e cobot to power the Vectis Cobot Welding Tool launching at FABTECH 2019 in Chicago, giving smaller weld shops a low-risk, easy solution to increase weld capacity, quality, and stability.

MHMM to acquire Siemens’ 49% stake in Primetals

Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery (MHMM) – an MHI group company – and Siemens AG reached an agreement that MHMM will acquire Siemens’ 49% stake in Primetals Technologies.

Outokumpu set off EIA to build a slag furnace in Tornio

Outokumpu is assessing options to build a new slag furnace in Tornio, Finland, and the company has initiated an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure as a basis for decision making.

Hardide-A coating improves fatigue life

New independent testing has proven that Hardide-A tungsten carbide/tungsten metal matrix composite coating improves the fatigue life of metal components by 4.5% compared to uncoated substrates.

TechnipFMC & DNV GL to qualify digital twin technology

TechnipFMC and DNV GL have entered into a partnership to develop the oil and gas industry’s first methodology for qualifying the integrity of digital twin technology.

ASIPP develops a large-scale vacuum EBW system

The Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) has developed a large-scale vacuum electron beam welding (EBW) system, including China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) vacuum vessel collar as a pre-research part completed by this system, and it has passed the expert acceptance test recently.

Triangle Tube increases Technical Support Staff

Triangle Tube, the original innovator of the residential fire tube boiler, announces the appointment of five new technical staff member to it’s growing support team.

TISCO duplex stainless steel applied to Slowson bridge

TISCO duplex stainless steel has been successfully applied to the Slowson steel structure bridge project in Sweden. Sweden's Slowson Bridge is located in the Slowson District of Stockholm, Sweden.