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The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has released figures for the first nine months of 2019 showing that stainless steel melt shop production increased by 3.4% year-on-year to 39.8 million metric tons.

Honeywell announced that Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. is using a Honeywell UOP Polybed™ pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit to supply high-purity hydrogen to its integrated refining and petrochemicals complex in China.

Alfa Laval has won an order to supply large heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in Russia. The order has a value of approximately SEK 90M and is booked in the Welded Heat Exchangers unit of the Energy Division.

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.

The operation of adjusting the composition of titanium alloy in the process of making titanium rod is called alloying. In a modern electric furnace, titanium rod alloying is usually finished in the titanium bag during the process of producing titanium, while the alloying in the titanium bag is pre-alloyed, and the accurate adjustment of alloy composition is finished in the furnace.

The Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Benteler Distribution, a division of Benteler International AG.

Valmet and Metsä Board have signed an agreement for the supply of key technology for the planned renewal of the Husum pulp mill in Sweden.

Recently, Royal Vopak announced that it has been selected by Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), the petrochemical joint-venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, to design, build, own and operate a new industrial terminal on the U.S.

Outokumpu has reinforced its drive for sustainability by becoming the world’s first stainless steel manufacturer to publish environmental product declarations (EPDs) covering its portfolio of stainless steel grades.

The technology group, Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40 MW extended engineered equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung, a southern central part of Myanmar.