Applications

    Stainless steels are a suitable materials for many applications where both the strength of steel and corrosion resistance are required. It is resistant to corrosion, staining and stainless steel can be rolled into sheets, plates, bars, wire, and tubing for a variety of applications. Below you can find news on the application of stainless steels in a broad variety of industries, such as architecture, oil and gas, shipbuilding and heat exchangers. If you wish to include your newsrelease on Stainless Steel World Americas and email newsletter, please feel free to contact us.

    AISI scholarships

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    The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and the Association for Iron & Steel Technology Foundation (AIST Foundation) have announced that applications for the FeMET and StEEL Scholarships are being accepted now through 5 March 2009

    USA: carbon and stainless steel processing facilit

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    ThyssenKrupp has completed a number of milestones since a year after breaking ground on its massive steel processing project in SW Alabama, and is poised to start up the facility on schedule in 2010.

    In-Line U-Bend manufacturing center

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    RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has incorporated an in-line U-Bend manufacturing center into their Janesville, Wisconsin facility.

    Flux-cored welding wire

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    Hobart Brothers, based in Ohio, US, has released its Hobart Fabshield 23 self-shielded flux-cored welding wire for general purpose welding fabrication and repairs on thin gauge mild or galvanized steel and coated materials.

    GTAW weld overlay process

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    Klad Manufacturing Co. Ltd has partnered with Arc Specialties, the Houston-based provider of automated welding solutions to a variety of industries, to offer a proprietary hot-wire GTAW weld overlay process aimed at subsea piping and other applications.

    MIG Wire for automated welding

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    Lincoln Electric, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has added the new L-59 MIG wire, which is specifically designed for automated welding applications, to its SuperArc consumables line.

    iWeld laser system

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    LaserStar Technologies Corp., a member of the Laser Institute of America, has introduced its iWeld advanced laser system.

    New hard surfacing wires

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    Hobart Brothers McKay, headquarted in Troy, Ohio has released VertiWear 600 and VertiWear AP hard surfacing wires.

    Plymouth Tube supplies NASA

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    Four-time shuttle astronaut and United Space Alliance COO, Dan Brandenstein, visited Plymouth Tube Company's Trent Mill in recognition for the AL-6XN tubing provided for NASA's Constellation program.

    MetalTek acquires Meighs Castings

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    MetalTek International, headquarted in Wisconson, US, has acquired Meighs Castings Ltd from Langley Alloys, headquarted in Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
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