Company News

In this section you can find updates from suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators and stockists of stainless steel material. This company news section is updated regularly with the latest company news from within the global stainless steel world community. If you wish to include your newsrelease on our website Stainless Steel World Americas and email newsletter, please feel free to contact us.

Greenerd delivers hydraulic presses

Greenerd Press & Machine Co. Inc. has built and delivered hydraulic presses to complete three orders, involving machines ranging in capacity from 330tns to 1000tns. All three machines were designed and built at Greenerd’s Nashua, New Hampshire, plant for different US manufacturers.

Lincoln Electric releases 108 new products

Lincoln Electric has rolled out 108 new products over the past nine months, the most aggressive new product launch in the arc welding industry.

Canadian Arrow updates on nickel projects

Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd has recently completed a USD 1.83 million financing. Over USD 1.5 million is to be expended on resumption of their exploration activities.

Canada: gas plant

TransCanada Corp.  has received a contract from the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), to design, build and operate a 900MW natural-gas power plant near Toronto.

Synalloy Corp. sells Blackman Uhler

Synalloy Corp., a producer of stainless steel pipe, fabricator of stainless and carbon steel piping systems, and producer of specialty chemicals, has announced that on 2 October 2009, the company entered into a Asset Purchase Agreement with SantoLubes Manufacturing LLC to sell the specialty chemical business of Blackman Uhler Specialties LLC (BU), along with certain property, plant and equipment held by Synalloy Corp., all located at the Spartanburg, South Carolina, US location.

Greenville Tube receives ISO 9001:2008

US-based Greenville Tube, a RathGibson company, and manufacturer of small diameter stainless steel and nickel alloy seamless and US-based welded and drawn tubing and pipe, has received ISO 9001:2008 Certification.

Partners wish to sell stake in gas storage project

Dutch oil and gas company Dyas and Canada's largest energy firm PetroCanada, are looking to sell their stakes in one of Europe's largest gas storage projects.

Sudbury resumes partial production

Vale SA has restarted partial production on1 October 2009 at Sudbury, its largest nickel and copper unit in Canada, as a strike continues.

Nucor acquires

Steelmaker Nucor Corp. now has acquired nearly 3900 acres in St James Parish, enough land to build its proposed USD 2 billion-plus mill. Still unknown, though, is whether the company will move forward with the mill, which would be part of a long-term strategy to supply raw materials to Nucor’s mini-steel mills across the south-central and SE US.

Christmas trees and wellheads order

Wood Group Pressure Control (WGPC), part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has been awarded a contract by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) valued at USD 11.2 million to provide 125 wellheads and Christmas trees for onshore oil & gas fields in Southern Mexico.