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.

New connectors meet demand for nontoxic applications

TE Connectivity has released its new line of rugged Amplimite D-subminiature (D-sub) connectors. This new line has put the same corrosion resistance of connectors made with cadmium into an environmentally-friendly, stainless-steel housing that meets the performance requirements of MIL-DTL-24308, which offers up to 500 hours of resistance to salt spray in harsh environments.

Sherritt reaches new nickel production milestone

Sherritt International Corporation, a leader in the mining and refining of nickel and cobalt from lateritic ores, has announced its Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, refinery has reached three billion pounds of finished nickel production since operations first began in 1954.

R+W Coupling introduces new stainless steel inserts

R+W Coupling Technology is offering elastic coupling inserts from stainless steel mesh, which have been designed to eliminate the temperature factors needed when sizing precision elastomer couplings, facilitating compact solutions even in high temperatures.

Flexicon bulk bag discharger is a contaminant-free zone

Flexicon’s new Bulk-Out bulk bag discharger, which features stainless steel open-channel construction, is the ideal discharger for applications and equipment that cannot tolerate any contamination.

Protolabs adds two more materials to its AM portfolio

Minnesota-based manufacturer, Protolabs, has announced the addition of Inconel 718 and maraging steel 1.2709 to its collection of direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) 3D printing materials.

The perfect plugs for your pipes

The Pipestoppers® Division at Huntingdon Fusion Techniques® (HFT) has manufactured and introduced a range of inflatable rubber plugs for heavy-duty applications such as pipes that might contain oils, hydrocarbons or petrochemicals, in which case, the usual inflatable stoppers will not have resistance.

Titanium helps make ground-breaking medical advances

Hamilton Precision Metals and SMP Wallingford, two AMETEK Specialty Metal Products (SMP) companies, have announced the addition of two new titanium strip grades – grade 9 and 23 – to their product portfolio for medical applications.

An overview of low nickel stainless steel (Part two)

In a continuation of the article, ‘An overview of welded low nickel chrome-manganese austenitic and ferritic stainless steel: Part two of two’, Urade VP and Ambade SP from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yeshwantrao Chavan of Engineering continue to talk about the increased interest of welding low nickel grades, and how it is not currently matched by a proper level of user knowledge.

An overview of low nickel stainless steel (Part one)

In their article ‘An overview of welded low nickel chrome-manganese austenitic and ferritic stainless steel: Part one of two’, Urade VP and Ambade SP from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yeshwantrao Chavan of Engineering talk about how the welding of low nickel chrome-manganese autenitic and ferritic stainless steel is an emerging area of research.

Italy’s A.D. Tubi expands manufacturing into USA

A.D. Tubi USA was founded in 2018 as an extension of A.D. Tubi Inossidabili to support the growing demand for high quality specialty welded tubes in the North American markets.