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Super ferritic stainless steel tube for surface
condenser
Lord Steel Industry Company Limited
(LSI) is an engineering solution
provider in anti-corrosion and heat
resistant material for tube and pipe.
Super ferritic stainless steel is a new
material used for seawater power
stations, developed by Plymouth Tube
Co and known by the brand Sea-
cure, and is known as an alternative
to titanium and copper tube materials
for condensers. The material is
named as UNS S44660 with excellent
seawater corrosion resistance, acid
condensate resistance, chloride stress
corrosion resistance, cracking and
pitting corrosion resistance, and lower
ductile-to-brittle transition temperature
than similar ferritic steel with nickel
additions and good ductility.
Lord Steel Industry Company Limited
and its partner plants have spent
more than ten years’ time and energy
in developing and researching such
material, and their qualified goods
ASME SA268-2010 UNS S44660
super ferritic stainless steel condenser
tubing (
7
/
8
" OD x 0.028" width x 31ft,
and 1" OD x 0.028" width x 34ft) was
successfully installed in condensers
for a famous nuclear power station
in 2010. According to the company,
all the test results and data proved
to be excellent, and better than the
material listed on standards by TPI
and contractors, buyer and the end-
user. The plant has been awarded the
National Scientific and Technology
Special
Achievement
by
the
government.
“LSI can see the future of this product
and will continue to promote and
improve the material UNS S44660,”
said Mr Chow, managing director of LSI.
In 2012, LSI continues to put energy
and time in developing new anti-
corrosion and heat resistant materials
for tube and pipe. The promotion of
UNS S44660 will be an important
marketing strategy for LSI, and
the company hopes to build more
relationships with global engineering
project contractors.
LSI also is known for its nickel alloy
seamless pipes (UNS N04400, UNS
N06625, etc) and high purity stainless
steel precision tubes (BA and EP
tube) in China. In September LSI will
exhibit its new products at Tube China
2012.
Lord Steel Industry (Suzhou)
Company Ltd
– China
Fax: +86 512 62382470
Email:
Website:
Heinrich Weiss turns 70
Dr Heinrich Weiss, chairman and CEO
of the SMS group, marked his 70
th
birthday on 5 June 2012. Dr Weiss,
who grew up in the Siegerland region
of Germany, belongs to the founding
family of the company he has been
running in the fourth generation for 41
years.
Following graduation as an engineer in
1967, several years of practical work,
and a period as CEO of a subsidiary,
Dr Weiss in 1971 succeeded his father
Bernhard as chairman of Siemag
Siegener
Maschinenbau
GmbH.
Even then, the company ranked
among Germany’s ‘big five’ rolling
mill manufacturers, with annual sales
totalling some €70mn.
Managed by Heinrich Weiss, the
company expanded through a number
of mergers and takeovers in Germany
and abroad, developing into today’s
SMS group, a global leader in plant
and machinery construction for the
manufacture and processing of steel
and non-ferrous metals. A workforce of
around 11,000 employees generates
sales of more than €3bn.
Dr Weiss is a member of the
administrative board of Bombardier
Inc, Montreal, Canada, and also
sits on the supervisory boards of
Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin and
Voith AG, Heidenheim, both in
Germany. He has also assumed
extensive responsibilities in politics
and in several associations. He is
currently chairman of the External
Economic Relations Advisory Board
for the Federal Minister of Economics,
Berlin, a member of the Asia-Pacific
Committee of German Business, and a
member of the Committee on Eastern
European Economic Relations, Berlin.
From 2008 to 2012 he acted as
president of the German-Russian
Chamber of Commerce, and from
1982 to 1997 he was chairman of
the China Working Group of the
Asia-Pacific Committee of German
Business. Dr Weiss is considered one
of the pioneers of Chinese-German
business relations after the opening of
the country in the late seventies. From
1983 to 1988 he served as chairman of
the Economic Committee of the CDU
party, from 1983 to 1989 vice president
of the VDMA-German Engineering
Federation, and from 1991 to 1992 he
was president of the BDI-Federation of
German Industry.
In 2001 Dr Weiss was awarded the
title of Dr-Ing Eh by RWTH Aachen
University.
SMS group
– Germany
Fax: +49 211 881 774127
Email:
Website:
Dr Heinrich Weiss, chairman and CEO
of the SMS group
