Tag: stainless steel

Think stainless steel, and most people think ‘bright, shiny and silver’. But did you know that specifying stainless steel is not limited by its silver appearance? Coloured and textured stainless steel is an exciting material choice for designers and architects.

While screens can be manufactured with different mesh counts and wire diameters, they can also be woven with different materials. Type 304 and Type 316 stainless steel are by far the most common materials of construction for screens used in the processing of granular and powder materials.

Japanese architecture studio, SANAA has revealed its design for a museum in Shenzhen, which will be enclosed by a collection of hemispherical forms blanketed by a mesh louvred roof.

Sandvik has won a contract to supply seamless coiled tubing made from its SAF 2507®super duplex stainless steel to a geothermal plant in Central America.

Ultimate Resistant Application (URA) is a new and revolutionary non-stick technology using a unique stainless steel process whereby the pot’s steel inner surface is made more compact, hard and uniform.

What does trust, reliability, and commitment look like in the global stainless steel market? For Mr. Pratik Shah of Sun Mark Stainless, the answer is best given in the form of an anecdote: “In 2014, a client placed a large order with us. Then the market price suddenly increased by more than $500 per ton before the order had been processed.

With over eighty years of experience, Langley Alloys provides a range of high-performance duplex and super duplex stainless steels, nickel-based alloys, and unique copper-nickel alloys for the harshest of conditions, whether it’s for sub-sea systems at great depths, oil and gas industry components operating under intense pressures, or the aggressive environments found within modern chemical plants. Stainless Steel World News last interviewed company members in November 2018.

The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has released figures for the first nine months of 2020 showing that stainless steel melt shop production decreased by 7.8% year–on–year to 36.7 million metric tons.

Mr. Pratik Shah, Director of Chromeni Steels, has a prediction for 2020: “it’s going to be a good year for the company, for India, and for the global stainless steel trade.” Mr. Shah has cause for optimism. Early in 2019, construction had finished on Chromeni’s new production facility in record-breaking time, and their operation rang in the new year at full capacity.

The UK’s first stainless steel road bridge was officially opened in October over the River Eamont at Pooley Bridge. Measuring 128ft long, the landmark structure reconnects the Ullswater valley with a permanent new bridge to replace the 18th century stone structure destroyed during Storm Desmond in December 2015.The new bridge at Pooley Bridge is now open to traffic and pedestrians.