Like any other industry, the stainless steel industry aims to reduce its CO2 emissions. The purpose of this document is to clarify what those emissions are and where they originate.

The seminar will be held on June 9, 2010 at the Poznan International Fair.

Authored by NI consultant Catherine Houska and reprinted by The Indian Stainless Steel Development Association this review of stainless steel applications, benefits and specification discusses the use of stainless steel in transit buildings, the factors and inherent sustainability of stainless steel that make it an important design material for new transit buildings. This paper will provide designers with the confidence to use stainless steel in designs capable of providing 50 or more years of service.

A completely revised and updated version of the BSSA Guide to Stainless Steel Specifications is available from May. Since the last edition, published in 2003, there have been important changes to the most frequently used stainless steel standards for flat and long products and new standards for tubular products.

Today, environmental issues are important criteria for material selection. In evaluating the environmental properties of a material, recycling is a key element. Let us look at the recycling of stainless steel in greater detail.

The Nickel Institute delivered Basic ABC workshops in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province), Changchun (Jilin Province), Jinan (Shandong Province) and Zhangjiakou (Hebei Province) during the week of 10 May.

This book contains examples of real-life accidents as well as examples of preventative safety initiatives that have been developed by ISSF member companies. ISSF hopes that by sharing these examples, stainless steel producers in all parts of the world will be able to learn and improve their safety performance, leading to an industry in which there is zero harm.

It is not surprising that stainless steel was used at the Moses Mobhida Soccer Stadium & the King Shaka International Airport, as it is the most cost effective material of construction, when evaluating long term investments of this nature.

When it comes to critical applications, maintenance costs and aesthetic appeal, the construction industry including architects, quantity surveyors, and consulting engineers agree that if you want value for money and an environmentally sustainable product, then the vast range of stainless steels available offer the most cost effective solutions.

The use of stainless steel has been characterized for 51 countries and the world for the years 2000 and 2005. We find that the global stainless steel flow-into-use increased by more than 30% in that 5 year period, as did additions to in-use stocks. This growth was mainly driven by China, which accounted for almost half of the global growth in stainless steel crude production and which tripled its flow into use between 2000 and 2005. The global stainless steel-specific end-of-life recycling rate increased from 66% (2000) to 70% (2005); the landfilling rate was 22% for both years, and 9% (2000) to 12% (2005) was lost into recycled carbon and alloy steels. Within just 5 years, China passed such traditionally strong stainless steel producers and users as Japan, USA, Germany, and South Korea to become the dominant player of the stainless steel industry. However, China did not produce any significant stainless steel end-of-life flows in 2000 or 2005 because its products-in-use are still too new to require replacements. Major Chinese discard flows are expected to begin between 2015 and 2020.

CSSC has reported China stainless production in the first quarter of 2010 on their website www.cssc.org.cn. The crude stainless steel production is 2,435 ('000 metric tons) increased by 8.93% compared with the final quarter of 2009. Cr-Ni 300-series production is 1241 ('000 metric tons), Cr 400-series production is 801 ('000 metric tons) and the Cr-Mn 200-series production is 393.2 ('000 metric tons).

A presentation by Curtis Stewart of INSG discussing innovative uses of nickel was given at the New & Innovative Applications for Metals Joint Study Groups' Seminar in Lisbon, Portugal in April 2010.

Mr. Stewart discussed both innovative projects incorporating nickel; in transportation projects,; in solar power systems, in offshore platforms, as well as new and innovative products containing nickel.

The Council approved the application of two new companies in Almaty: Allied Alloys LLP, processing stainless steel scrap in the United States, Asia Steel & Metals Ltd, a trading company in Hong Kong.

Baoshan Hotel, Shanghai; 17-18 June 2010

Both the "Nickel and Society" and "Nickel Advantage" publications are available as English and/or Chinese PDF downloads on the Nickel Institute website.