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.

Nickel steel now available for injection molding

Proto Labs, the company that creates custom prototype and low- to mid-range volume parts, has added two nickel steel materials, Catamold FN02 and FN0205 and a chrome-moly material, Catamold 42CrMo4 so product designers and engineers can now order injection-molded low-alloy steel protoypes.

Saunders® stainless steel valve sensors

Crane ChemPharma & Energy will be maintaing the importance of drug manufacturers maximizing product quality and ensuring patient safety at the upcoming Interphex Exhibition, which will be held from April 21 to 22, 2015 in New York City, USA.

Xylem’s Ultrascreen stainless disk filter

Water technology company Xylem has signed an exclusive agreement with Nuove Energie to distribute a tertiary disk filter system for wastewater reuse and discharge requirements in the USA and Canada.

The Ultrascreen disk filter will be distributed by Xylem under the company's Leopold brand for customers who have a particular need for tertiary treatment to meet stringent requirements for both discharge and reuse applications.

New universal stainless steel temp. sensor

Advances in technology and manufacturing have let engineers at TURCK, located in Plymouth, Minnesota, design and build two new sensors, the EG05K and EH04K, that are only 15.2 mm long and 5 mm or smaller in diameter.

New stainless steel flanged ball valves

Bonomi North America has launched its newest product, the V-ball spilt body ANSI 150 flanged valves that provide precise flow control in demanding applications.
These ANSI Class 150 flanged industrial V-port ball valves, designed for precise flow control and easy automation, are available with 30-, 60- or 90-degree V shaped ports for superior flow control characteristics.

Evraz North America sells structural tubing venture

EVRAZ's North American subsidiary EVRAZ North America (ENA) signed an agreement with Maruichi Oregon Steel Tube to sell ENA’s structural tubing business (formerly known as Columbia Structural Steel) in Portland, Oregon, for approximately USD 51 million in cash, including approximately USD 8.

Installoy’s new offerings

A relatively new addition to the PVF industry, Houston-based Installoy, is now offering a complete selection of austenitic, cold drawn seamless stainless steel tubing for high pressure/high temperature applications.

Rotork’s Soldo switchbox offered in 316

Now available from Rotork Instruments is the Soldo Easy Switch hazardous area limit switchbox for manual valves. It has been designed with minimal moving parts and magnetic switching technology for long-term reliability in the most demanding applications and hostile environments.

Landre to represent Optomec’s 3D metal printers

Optomec, the American global supplier of production grade additive manufacturing systems for 3D printed metals and printed electronics, has signed an agreement with Landre to represent Optomec’s LENS family of 3D Metal Printers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

New stainless steel turbine flow meter

Clark Solutions has launched its new Stainless Steel Turbine Flow Meter/Sensor.

Featuring Infrared Reflected Digital Output Technology, these flow meters/flow sensors provide highly accurate flow monitoring and totalizing for liquids in pressures up to 363PSI.