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Industry News
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Autogenous GTAW Welding of Thin-Walled Nickel Alloy Tubing: Parameters and Pitfalls
2026/07/03Autogenous GTAW Welding of Thin-Walled Nickel Alloy Tubing: Parameters and Pitfalls When working with thin-walled Hastelloy C276 tubing—often in the 0.028" to 0.065" wall thickness range—the introduction of filler metal can sometimes do m...
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Overmatching vs. Undermatching Filler Metals for Super Duplex Pipe Joints: A Weld Engineer's Dilemma
2026/07/03You are qualifying a WPS for a 2507 super duplex pipe spool destined for a critical offshore service. The design calls for full strength and maximum corrosion resistance. You sit down to select the filler metal, and immediately you hit the dilemma:&n...
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The Crevice Corrosion Challenge in Compact Heat Exchangers: Material Selection for Plate & Frame Units
2026/07/02The Crevice Corrosion Challenge in Compact Heat Exchangers: Material Selection for Plate & Frame Units Plate and frame heat exchangers (PHEs) are efficiency marvels, offering exceptional heat transfer in a small footprint. However, their very des...
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Building a Digital Twin of Your Corrosion-Resistant Piping Network for Operational Excellence
2026/07/01Building a Digital Twin of Your Corrosion-Resistant Piping Network for Operational Excellence For decades, managing a corrosion-resistant alloy (CRA) piping network—the lifeline of your most critical process units—has been a reactive disc...
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Inconel 600 vs 625 vs 825: High-Temperature Nickel Alloy Tubes for Aerospace and Power Generation Applications
2026/06/30Inconel 600 vs 625 vs 825: High-Temperature Nickel Alloy Tubes for Aerospace and Power Generation Applications When your application involves sustained heat, aggressive oxidation, or corrosive combustion gases, ordinary stainless steels fail. That is...
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Duplex 2205 vs 2507: Which Super Duplex Stainless Steel Pipe Fitting Should You Specify for Your Offshore Project?
2026/06/30Duplex 2205 vs 2507: Which Super Duplex Stainless Steel Pipe Fitting Should You Specify for Your Offshore Project? Selecting the right material for offshore pipe fittings is not a decision you can second-guess once the platform is operating and seawa...
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Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC) in Sour Service: Why Standard Duplex May Not Be Enough for High H₂S Wells
2026/06/29When a well goes sour—meaning hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) is present in the produced fluids—the rules of materials selection change overnight. Carbon steel, the workhorse of the industry, becomes vulnerable to hydrogen-induced cracking. And ev...
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Blockchain for Traceability: Ensuring Authenticity of Hastelloy and Duplex Steel Pipes
2026/06/29Blockchain for Traceability: Ensuring Authenticity of Hastelloy and Duplex Steel Pipes Counterfeit and misrepresented materials are a persistent threat in the specialty metals industry. A pipe stamped “Hastelloy C276” may, in reality, be ...
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Offshore Topside Weight Reduction: The Case for High-Strength Duplex vs. Standard Stainless Pipes
2026/06/25Offshore Topside Weight Reduction: The Case for High‑Strength Duplex vs. Standard Stainless Pipes For offshore platforms—whether fixed jackets, floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, or semi‑submersibles—weight is a rele...
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Navigating Export Controls on High-Performance Nickel Alloys: Compliance for International Projects
2026/06/25Navigating Export Controls on High-Performance Nickel Alloys: Compliance for International Projects For procurement and project managers in the chemical processing, energy, and aerospace sectors, specifying Hastelloy C276 or other high-performance ni...
