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After a prolonged slump, raw material prices are on the rise again. End users will therefore be looking to save costs by specifying lower-alloy grades, including duplex. Thanks partly to advances in fabrication, duplex is being used in more and more products and applications, over a wide range of industries.

Whether it’s a high-end department store in Canada, lavish palaces in the Middle East, or a grand variety of commercial, industrial and residential structures in the Netherlands, India, Hong Kong or the United States, architectural titanium is well established as a showcase application on the global stage. For over 20 years, the company, aptly named Architectural Titanium, based in Lawrence, KS, has served as a consultant to help usher titanium onto that stage.

The Stainless Steel World team was generously invited to take a behind-the-scenes factory tour of the Ceretta Candy Company, a popular and much beloved local business. Located in the city of Glendale, only nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix, Ceretta Candy is celebrating its 50th anniversary of making French Mints, Marshmallow Caramels, and Almond Bark, although the company has been creating these sweet treats from its current location for the past 29 years.

The tungsten arc welding concept, originally introduced as a practical tool in 1950, is now established as the most versatile technique for producing fusion welds to the highest quality standards.

When high-quality welds are required, orbital TIG welding is the ideal technology for tube-to-tube or tube-to-tube sheet welding applications. With or without filler wire, this is a stable, reliable process that can be used on a wide range of materials such as carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium and nickel and aluminium alloys.

New infrastructure in the heart of Sydney, Australia, is set to transform the busy transport hub and provide a stylish new gateway to the Barangaroo development.

Outokumpu Long Products has won a contract to supply more than 2,500 metric tons of stainless steel rebar to the Rodanthe Bridge project in North Carolina, USA. Deliveries will be started in Q2 2018 and continue through 2020.

It is no exaggeration to say that the tank container has revolutionized freight transport. From its humble origins, the ISO tank container industry now numbers more than half a million units across the globe. Tank production is growing at nearly twice the rate of the world economy and they are almost always made of molybdenum-containing stainless steel. Such is their popularity that these containers now represent a significant end-use application for molybdenum.

The spirit of the ANZACs* is evoked in an architecturally stunning, stainless steel walkway that unfolds around the cliffs of Newcastle in New South Wales Australia.

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.