Tag: stainless steel

voestalpine Böhler Welding flux-cored wires offer a productive and versatile alternative for the welding of stainless steel.

New infrastructure in the heart of Sydney, Australia, is set to transform the busy transport hub and provide a stylish new gateway to the Barangaroo development.

Outokumpu Long Products has won a contract to supply more than 2,500 metric tons of stainless steel rebar to the Rodanthe Bridge project in North Carolina, USA. Deliveries will be started in Q2 2018 and continue through 2020.

It is no exaggeration to say that the tank container has revolutionized freight transport. From its humble origins, the ISO tank container industry now numbers more than half a million units across the globe. Tank production is growing at nearly twice the rate of the world economy and they are almost always made of molybdenum-containing stainless steel. Such is their popularity that these containers now represent a significant end-use application for molybdenum.

The spirit of the ANZACs* is evoked in an architecturally stunning, stainless steel walkway that unfolds around the cliffs of Newcastle in New South Wales Australia.

voestalpine Böhler Welding flux-cored wires offer a productive and versatile alternative for the welding of stainless steel.

Counterfeit products are increasingly finding their way into the stainless steel supply chain, with potentially devastating consequences for safety, the economy and the environment. For this reason, during the 2017 Stainless Steel World conference a dedicated workshop explored and proposed additional industry initiatives that could further mitigate the manufacture and use of counterfeit products. The conclusions are presented here.

In April a ground-breaking stainless steel 3D printing project reached a major milestone with the successful completion of the bridge span section of a fully functional 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam.

The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has recently recognized Outokumpu with the 2018 gold-level sustainability award for applying a pelletizing method in its Sheffield melt shop to increase material efficiency and reduce environmental impact in stainless steel melting process.

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.