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.

Stainless steel transducer from Pressure Systems

Pressure Systems, a manufacturer of precision level and pressure instruments for environmental water usage and water resource applications, now offers the TruBlue 585 CTD transducer that monitors and logs conductivity to a 1% accuracy as well as

Martensitic stainless tubing from KVA Stainless

KVA Stainless has implemented patented welding and thermal processing technologies to create seam-welded martensitic tubing. KVA Martensitic Stainless Steel (MSS) tube and pipe are low-cost, high performance substitutes for traditional carbon steel,

Stainless steel gearbox for extreme environments

Wittenstein has released the alpha SG stainless steel gearbox specially designed for washdown and food-grade environments. The gearbox features stainless steel housing, shaft, and fasteners, and has custom engineered, corrosion resistant, rotary shaft seals.

New stainless electrodes from SelectAlloy

Select-Arc Inc. has introduced two gas-shielded, flux cored, stainless steel electrodes that are specifically designed for cryogenic applications where good weld metal toughness is needed.

Pipepro welder suits transmission pipeline welding

Miller Electric has launched the Big Blue 350 Pipepro diesel engine-driven welder/AC generator, which has been purpose-built for transmission pipeline welding. The Big Blue 350 Pipepro provides 20-400A for both DC stick and DC TIG welding, 14-

Stainless steel super air nozzle

Exair's new 3/4 NPT Stainless Steel Super Air Nozzle delivers 4.5lbs of strong blowing force for blowoff, cooling and drying applications located in corrosive, high temperature, food and pharmaceutical environments. The force is more than 5 times

Stainless steel filter screens

Hutchinson Technology Inc. (HTI) has announced the availability of thinner stainless steel filter screens with smaller features. The filters are 0.025mm thick stainless steel, with 0.055mm diameter holes for volume production. Prototypes are available with

Square Wave TIG from Lincoln

Lincoln Electric has released their new Square Wave TIG. This general-purpose AC/DC TIG and stick machine effectively tackles steel, stainless, cro-moly, titanium and aluminum applications and many materials.

Hobart Fabshield XLR-8 and XLNT-6 wires

Hobart Brothers has released its Hobart Fabshield XLR-8 and Fabshield XLNT-6 self-shielded flux-cored wires for a range of demanding welding applications in a new packaging design. Hobart Brothers' Fabshield XLR-8 wire offers all-position welding

Stainless steel cable glands

Automation Systems Interconnect Inc. has announced the introduction of stainless steel cable glands available in type 303 and type 316L stainless steel with PG or Metric threading. Both types carry an ingress protection of IP68 and NEMA 6P. Used with