The University of Tampa in Florida, USA, is home to the world’s largest Ars Sonora, a 30-meter-high artistic-musical work composed of 63 bells supported by stainless steel custom hollow sections and connected to three different keyboards, each of which reproduces a different sound and thus a different musical note.
Paddington Station is one of the top 10 stations on the new Elizabeth Line, a 136-kilometer-long rail link that crosses the entire city from west to east and joins the Bakerloo Line and regional and domestic trains from across the kingdom. In fact, it is the first tube line for passengers coming from Wales and…
The talented Sigrid Hintersteininger Architects wanted to represent architecturally Hahn+Kolb’s ambitious mission: “We are there for you. Wherever you are.” To do so, they chose our curtain wall solutions to build the Ludwigsburg (DE) headquarters of this leading provider of machining tools.
The Story Bridge in Brisbane has the sad primacy of being the Australia’s most notorious suicide hotspot. As a prevention measure, the municipality finances a huge project with 8.4 mio AUD for adding a stainless steel mash wall all along both walkways.
In the new MGM Cotai resort in Macau, the new luxury hotel of the big casino chain, there will be also a confectionary of the famous chef Janice Wong.
Bent stainless steel HEB beams are used for space travel. Before the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was used on the ISS, it had to be tested under real conditions.
For the Dallas City Performance Hall, the performing arts venue in the Arts District, the city of Dallas entrusted the Architect & Engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) of Chicago and Corgan Associates.
Propulsion systems for large ships and vessels use a telescopic mast, so the canvas can be blown by wind. This construction yearns for tailored hollow carbon steel sections.
As a material test reactor, the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) in France plays an important role in developing nuclear energy technology. Montanstahl participated in that with supplying HEB stainless steel beams.
Heaving the tender of a luxury yacht into water and putting it back onboard is not possible without an auxiliary device. A crane boom made of duplex stainless steel is needed.
A US-american university with focus on agricultural and nutritional science is being renovated, including the on-campus dairy. For this, high-class stainless steel special beams are used.
Due to its hygienic characteristics, stainless steel is essential in hospitals and infirmaries. For medical applications, a Swiss private clinic also needs stainless steel beams with special measurements.
One of the world’s leading companies active in the ore mining and quarrying industry requires several special tailored sections both in stainless and carbon steel for their operations in Indonesia.
For a shopping mall in Dublin (Ireland) the architect designed an appealing special stainless steel shape. According to this, a trapezoidal hollow section with sharp edges is welded.
are custom-made for the special employment within coke ovens in Poland. On that account laser welding technology is deployed and the results are sensational.
While building an off-shore regasification plant in Norway stainless steel structures are used. Because of their special usage the HEA beams have to display special features. And the construction itself also needs a lot of creativity.
Special beams are produced for a large project by laser welding. During the manufacturing, special demands are required. Furthermore, permanent quality control plays a major role while creating the beams.
Curved sections are used more and more for the rebuildung of oil refineries. But their use is still a challenge which needs designers and manufacturers to be creative.