Tag: stainless steel

Doughty streamlines production

Doughty Precision Engineering (Nottingham, UK) has doubled its number of Nakamura Tome 7-axis CNC mill-turning centres to four in an effort to minimise the number of separate machining operations.

Inovati wins R&D 100 award

Inovati (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) has won an R&D 100 award for 2002 from R&D Magazine for the development of equipment and processes for its low-temperature metal deposition technique, Kinetic Metallization (KM).

New metal service centre in Orlando

Jenks Metals LLC has purchased the assets of Metals USA's Specialty Metals operation in Orlando, Florida, according to Jenks' President and CEO Lee Feiereisen.

Stainless long-life ball valves

When Worcester Controls' valves and Norbro actuators were installed at a fine chemicals manufacturing plant in Middlesbrough in 1997 they had a target to achieve one million uninterrupted cycles.

New report reveals corrosion costs

A recently released study sponsored by NACE International estimates the annual direct cost of corrosion in the USA to be USD 276 billion.

Stainless Virgin

A 33-foot-tall, 4-ton stainless steel statue of the Virgin Mary is on tour through the Midwest area of the USA, according to the Chicago Daily Herald.

Figure 800 safety relief valve

Spence Engineering Company Inc., Walden, New York has announced the Figure 800 Safety Relief Valve with all stainless steel internals for improved corrosion resistance.

High-temperature grade tubing

Sterling Tubes, part of the Sandvik Group, has set up a stock facility for Sterling 310, stainless steel, commercial high temperature grade tubing in order to supply its independent distributor customers.

Vacuum technology reduces hospital costs

Vacuum technology from Siemens Elmo is proving an enormous success, particularly in hospitals.

Vacuum inlet trap

A new, high-capacity vacuum inlet and exhaust trap for manufacturers in the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries has been introduced by MV Products of North Billerica, Massachusetts, USA.