Tag: stainless steel

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.

The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has released figures for the full year 2017 showing that stainless steel melt shop production increased by 5.

Expanite has recently developed surface hardening solutions for the pump and valve market. The main problems in the past in these industries have always been wear and galling – all applications where either metal sealing is needed or, due to high operational temperatures (far above 300 °C) and/or corrosive environments, conventional coatings and most non-metallic bushings cannot be used.

Stainless steel is increasingly popular for large scale sculptures and public installations around the world. Companies that specialize in the creation of such pieces are both pioneers in the techniques required and promoters of this versatile material. Sino Sculpture is one such company that was created to produce works almost exclusively in stainless steels.

Succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid with the chemical formula (CH2)2(CO2H)2. The name derives from Latin succinum, meaning amber. Nickel-containing stainless steel is playing an essential role in the production of innovative ‘green’ succinic acid which is highly corrosive to low alloy and carbon steel.

Two historic milestones have been reached in 2017: For the first time ever, the global stainless steel crude steel production has exceeded the 50 MT mark last year.