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.
The DIN 1025 for structural beams, as well as the DIN 1026 for various structural channels is going to be replaced by the new EN 10365. Currently, the norms do coexist in parallel. Which steel and stainless steel structural profiles are involved and what does change will be explained further on.
Filter systems are for all of us an everyday companion, even though not an obvious one. Starting with the fume hood in the kitchen or for drinking water, for wastewater, for swimming pools or at gas stations. Certainly, also for many different industries filter systems are – due to current environmental protection guidelines – mandatory…
At Montanstahl, over 10 years sharp-edged facade steel profiles are produced. The range of the carried out and feasible profile sections has been extended enormously over this period and the possibilities still seem not exhausted.
One defines heat-resistant stainless steels as alloys that are used in temperatures between 500 and 1150 degrees Celsius. In technical language, they are also called heat- and creep resistant.
Structural profiles are usually available in bar lengths of 6 meters. For the individual application, ones cut them into needed lengths and installed. Often, the project requests bent profiles, which adapt to the forms of the application. To realize this, there are two ways in general. Find out more about these.
Using Duplex steel has some advantages, which are essential in a few industries. One of them is definitely the shipping industry with the transport of corrosive respectively cryogen fluids. The high mechanical values, combined with the high corrosion resistance of duplex grades, allow significant weight savings, which are not only important for the resourcing market.
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.
Where are the differences between the stainless steel grades 1.4404 (316L) and 1.4571 (316Ti)? Please check the following analysis that highlights some of the main pros and cons of both material grades.
Montanstahl manufactures high-quality stainless steel profiles. Most of them have a grit shot blasted finish. Next to cold rolled profiles, there is another product family: decorative polished stainless steel T-sections.
Cold rolled stainless steel profiles and special shapes find use in various applications. These include mechanical engineering and construction as well as aesthetic applications.
Hot extruded profiles in stainless steel offer a solution where a high level of corrosion resistance is necessary. Hot extrusion works well for different type of materials, like aluminium, and also stainless steel or carbon steel.
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.
One can see stainless steel surfaces in many industries as well as in daily life. So the questions arises which method is best for cleaning stainless steel.
Stainless steel is one of our most used manufacturing materials. However, steels are also economical to recycle, prompting a huge industry in the collection and recycling of steel products.
Clean rooms in the food industry increasingly rely on stainless steel equipment. They must maintain few environmental pollutants to prevent any tainting during the production, assembly or testing process.
3D laser printing has revolutionised computer aided manufacturing. The process enables producing complex components with higher tolerances and a higher degree of precision. So a variety of special shapes are possible.
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.
In modern architecture, the use of stainless steel in urban space is raising. Special profiles and stainless steel sections for individual design are very popular.
Stainless steel has come up as one of the finest extractions of steel. Hence, stainless steel structural sections are used more and more in different sectors.
The demand for stainless steel has seen substantial growth not only in construction, but also in the luxury business. Especially prestigious watches are more and more made off precious metals.
Steel windows are ideal for renovations in historic or heritage buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries, but they are equally impressive additions in newer high-end residential properties and boutique commercial buildings. Not only can they create aesthetically pleasing homes, but they also contribute to healthier indoor living and a reduced environmental footprint.
The anti-corrosive stainless environment in both onshore and offshore applications is principal for many countries around the world. Hence, using duplex stainless steel (DSS) more and more is obvious.
Stainless steel is the most durable of metals. Its mechanical properties enable its structures to remain extremely resistant to rust. Nevertheless, corrosion can’t be precluded. But there are ways to mninimize the risk of corrosion.
Stainless steel is the optimal material for a great collection of applications. The material is hundred percent recyclable and already recycled as raw material. Tee sections are ideal structural components for applications with corrosion issues.
Stainless steel is most commonly used in the construction industry due to its strength and durability. So stainless steel channels can offer many advantages to a steel construction.
The general trend of stainless steel designer furnishings looms to a dominance of stainless steel: Office furniture, lock-up appliances or accessories for domestic kitchens are made of premium stainless steel.
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.
After Chernobyl experienced the catastrophe on April 26, 1986 volunteers encased the nuclear power plant in a sarcophagus of concrete and steel. Thirty years later it is newly entombed.
Everyday you see at least one stainless steel surface: in your own kitchen, but also at stores or college campuses. For their various uses, producers have to treat them differently.
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.
Stop-logs are used to control water levels in floodgates or the water flow in a river, canal or reservoir. They can also help to control systems for fresh water conductions.
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.
There are different methodsto cut stainless steel sheets and technical aspects have to be valuated to choose one: Quality of cut, tolerance and production speed are critical performance issues.
Stainless steel has been used in waste water treatment plants over the last fifty years due to its corrosion resistive properties. This is primarily because they do not experience thinning and a corrosion allowance is not required.
Walking through any of Europe’s capital cities offers quite a record in how radically the direction of the styles of building facades has changed even during the last century.
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.
Solar power plants with concentrating solar power – or CSP for short – might sound like an exciting new technology, but it’s actually been around for almost 35 years.
Long lasting stop-logs should possess both a certain level of sturdiness and agility. After all, they are lifted up and down, or removed completely using hoists and hydraulic lifters.
Stainless steel sections form the basis of constructional and manufacturing projects. While the majority of structural steel members are hot rolled, smaller and more precise sections may be cold drawn or machined.
Every product has its best suitable manufactoring process. Every one of them creates a different result. Cold rolling is one of the best technologies for making high-end products.
Hot rolling is an industrial process for re-working principally steels but also stainless steels. Steelworks melt the material. To make it transportable, the melted steel cools down in different shapes.
HVAC systems as air conditioning and refrigeration equipment on offshore platforms, ensuring the highest safety standards and granting long operation thanks to the use of high-end materials.
The well-known Gas Metal Arc Welding was developed and is in use since the early nineteenth century. It gets in comparison with Laser Beam Welding, a new welding method that is industrialized since the late eighties and has become a common practice in the automotive industry as well as in the production of pipes for…
Standard sections in stainless steel come with a length of six meters. This is seldom the needed length of the application. Custom lengths and processing are possible through laser welding.
The use of duplex stainless steel on oil platforms has become very common lately. Its application is concentrated on the topside, the upper part outside the water.
During the last years, Montanstahl achieved significant results regarding safety at work. The amount of working accidents dropped by more than fifty percent in the last six years.
Various applications call for pipe and tubing support made in stainless steel. The applications range from food and beverage, to chemical plants, to oil-rigs.
There is a wide range of production methods for stainless steel channels and angle bars, covering the demand. Which performance to use can be established according to the following differentiation.
Laser welded structural sections in stainless steel are getting more and more recognized and accepted in the nuclear applications when corrosion resistance is an issue.