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Understanding Corrosion - Chapter 4: Tea staining

In this session, Tim Collins (Secretary General, worldstainless) explains how and why tea staining occurs, and outlines practical steps that material specifiers, fabricators and end users can take to prevent it and maintain the desired appearance of stainless steel in service.

4 December 2025

Stainless Flexible Service Lines: Italy's Water Leakage Solution

In recent years, several Italian water utilities, supported by Team Stainless, have initiated programs to replace traditional service connections with Type 316 stainless steel alternatives to reduce water leakage. Installations carried out in Brescia, Ancona and Belluno are expected to reach around 700 by the end of the year, marking an important milestone in Italy’s adoption of this technology.

27 November 2025

Stainless steel melt shop production increases by 3.0% in the first nine months of 2025

The world stainless association has released figures for the third quarter of 2025, showing the total stainless steel melt shop production for the first 9 months of 2025 was 48.0 million tonnes, an increase of 3.0% compared the first 9 months of 2024.

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