Tag: stainless steel

Swaging units to reduce installation time and cost

Swagelok Company has introduced the Swagelok air-actuated hydraulic swaging unit (AHSU), the industry’s first air-actuated device for swaging multiple fractional and metric tube-fitting sizes.

Mitsubishi and Stelax announce joint venture

Mitsubishi International Corp., a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., and Stelax Industries Ltd, Dallas, Texas, have announced the execution of a letter of intent whereby the parties, subject to final documentation and due diligence, have agreed to become strategic partners.

Robotic welding of pressure vessels

At the Eynsham factory of Oxford Magnet Technology, 750 liquid helium-filled vessels are produced each year for housing the superconducting magnet that forms the heart of magnetic resonance imaging systems for body and brain scanners.

AvestaPolarit adds stainless line

AvestaPolarit Oyj Abp (Finland), has placed an order with Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) for the supply of an automation system and electrical equipment for a new stainless steel production line at the Tornio Steelworks.

AmEuro expands

Messier Dowty, a UK-based manufacturer of aircraft and helicopter landing gears, has awarded AmEuro Metals BV (The Netherlands) a “supplier quality approval.â€? - Ameuro Metals is producing a new technical brochure.

Spence stainless safety relief valve

Spence Engineering Company Inc., Walden, New York, has announced the introduction of the new RXSO-S stainless steel safety relief valve.

Plea for nickel recycling information

Nickel Development Institute (NiDI has asked European recyclers of stainless steel to provide information related to the use of nickel in their business.

Allegheny Ludlum idles Houston facility

Allegheny Ludlum, an Allegheny Technologies Incorporated company, will indefinitely idle the melt and associated service operations located at its facility in Houston, Pennsylvania.

Honeywell Ultravalve used in UK water mains

New UK water regulations now allow the use of Honeywell RPZ assembly Ultravalve (made of all stainless steel) in water mains where, originally, break tanks may have been used to provide an air gap.

Welding enclosures

For the welding of titanium as well as other metals like stainless steel, Zirconium and its alloys, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd has developed a range of welding enclosures, so that welding can take place in an inert argon gas environment to eliminate all oxygen, hydrogen and water vapour.