Tag: medical
Featured Story – 3D-printed titanium goes mainstream
Manufacturing in titanium has become both easier and more sustainable, bearing fruit in better products and new alloys.
Strange but true…
Occasionally the editorial team at Stainless Steel World comes across a use for stainless steel that is a little obscure but nonetheless interesting. Having come across several examples recently, we thought we’d bundle them together for your education and reading pleasure…
Solid endless stainless belts in medical & pharmaceutical applications
Traditionally, the medical and pharmaceutical industries have been highly conservative and regulated environments where changes in material take inordinate amounts of time, primarily driven by the proclivity to corrosion of those materials. Due to their nature and specific applications, devices designed for medical or pharmaceutical uses must meet extremely demanding design and manufacturing criteria.
US Steel inks deal with Lambda
US Steel Corporation’s tubular products subsidiary, US Steel Tubular Products Inc, has entered into an agreement with Surface Enhancement Technologies, part of Lambda Technologies Group, to improve the quality of its tubular steel products. As per the agreement, US Steel has received an exclusive permit by SET to use its patented low plasticity burnishing technology
Gas spring with corrosion resistance
Stabilus, the designer and manufacturer of gas springs and hydraulic vibration dampers, introduces the Lift-O-Mat INOX stainless steel gas springs for a variety of industries, including marine, medical, food processing, RV's, kitchens and more.
New titanium alloy
Aichi Steel Corporation (Japan) has developed a new titanium alloy called ASTA (Aichi Steel Titanium Alloy).
Big news for small components
Sandvik Coromant's CoroTurn XS tooling solutions for internal turning, grooving and threading bring all the performance of CoroTurn down to smaller bores than ever, in a design conceived with small part machining.
Lightweight titanium coupling
In response to customer demand for a lightweight coupling with high fatigue life and strength, Huco Engineering Components has added a titanium Multi-Beam coupling to its range
New stainless steel from Sandvik
Sandvik Materials Technology has developed a new stainless steel, Sandvik Nanoflex.
Gehry’s cancer centre opens
Frank Gehry, who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has unveiled his first building in the UK.
