Tag: welding

A USD 1.4 billion upgrade of a 200MW Ameren coal-fired plant in Meredosia, Illinois, will repower and modify an existing power plant, building a brand-new boiler to create oxycombustion and piping steam through turbines. Approximately 1.3 tns/yr of CO2 will be captured and stored. Meredosia will be one of 10 DOE carbon-capturing demonstration plants

Lincoln Electric has released the first VRTEX™ 360 software upgrade offered since the launch of the training system in late 2009.The upgrade package for this virtual reality weld training system, available now, is ideal for schools, unions and other training facilities to instruct and educate welding operators in several virtual environments, using stick, MIG or flux-cored arc welding processes.

Kobe Steel will merge Kobe Welding Wire Co Limited into the company effective 1 April 1 2011 and carry out other organizational changes in production. This comes as a result of the decrease in demand for welding products in Japan, Europe and North America and the increase in competition in the Asian market.

Kobe Steel’s Chinese headquarters will open on 1 April 2011. Kobelco (China) Holding Co., Ltd., as the company will be called, is the first headquarters established in China by a Japanese steelmaker. Based in Luwan, Shanghai, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Kobe Steel is capitalized at USD 50.14 million.

The Gastech show – where the commercial and technical worlds meet – has just concluded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Check our video interviews!

Severstal’s metalware segment, Severstal-Metiz, has completed the sale of Severstal-Metiz Welding Consumables, a manufacturer of welding consumables in Russia, to Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (Lincoln Electric). As part of the sale, Lincoln Electric has acquired manufacturing operations

The "R & A" (a regional trade show and Conference for stainless steels and aluminum) recently took place in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. About 65 companies took part, showing the latest technical and product developments. An ideal opportunity, therefore, for your editors to scope out the stainless steel market. Many people we spoke to were optimistic about the future and quite willing to have their thoughts captured on film.

Technip has received an installation contract worth over EUR 20 million from EOG Resources, Inc., for the development of the Conwy field in the East Irish Sea. As per the contract, Technip will cover welding and installation of an 11.4km, 8in production pipeline and an 8in water injection pipeline

Gerald Frankel and John Lippold, professors of materials science and engineering at Ohio State, determined that while all stainless steels contain chromium, the consumable alloy that joins stainless steel parts together does not have to contain the metal. The result of this decision is a new alloy

In order to introduce the benefits of the TIG Hot Wire process to a wider public, POLYSOUDE will tour the world, demonstrating these new applications to welding specialists. Demonstrations will take place in the United Kingdom, France, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the USA and Japan.