Tag: stainless steel

Stainless steel production in the western world this year will exceed the 2001 figure by more than 600,000 tonnes (3.3%), according to Stainless Steel Review (September 2002).

China has become world's largest consumer of stainless steel, overtaking the USA and Japan, according to professor Li Cheng, executive vice president of the China Stainless Steel Council.

AB Sandvik Steel (Sweden) has announced that it is to merge Sandvik Steel UK and RGB Stainless Ltd.

Velan Inc. and McJunkin Corporation, North America's leading distributor of industrial pipe, valves and fittings have established a distribution arrangement for cast carbon, stainless and alloy steel gate, globe and check valves across the United States, with the exception of the Gulf Coast.

Swagelok has announced that its patented DR series radial diaphragm valve is now available with a polyethersulfone (PES) actuator, which it claims offers excellent resistance to caustic wash-down.

APV recently redesigned and launched the fully automatic Butter Bulk Packer, type FMG.

A monument using stainless steel was dedicated at a ceremony held on Friday, 6 September, at US Steel's Minnesota Ore Operations (Minntac) plant.

New from Potterton Commercial is an alternative to the installation of new condensing boilers. The Fumeco condensing heat recovery unit, made of high-grade stainless steel, is designed to convert a standard gas boiler into a high performance, fully condensing unit, producing cost and emissions reductions comparable with those achieved by condensing boilers.

Throughout 2001 and for all this year, stainless steel selling prices in the EU were reasonably steady, according to an article in the August issue of Stainless Steel Review

AK Steel is donating 20,000 pounds of stainless steel produced in western Pennsylvania to a project raising money for a permanent memorial to the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93