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News Release from: British Stainless Steel Association | Subject: Stainless Steel Sections Directory
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2004
New Stainless Steel Sections Directory
The British Stainless Steel Association [BSSA] has recently announced its publication of a new, comprehensive directory of suppliers of stainless steel sections to the UK market.
Covering the full range of sizes and product types - hot rolled, hot extruded, cold formed, welded and hollow sections, the directory not only distinguishes between producers and distributors, but also shows the main stainless steel grades available from each supplier across the complete size range Duncan Munro Director of the BSSA commented, "While carbon steel sections are readily available in standard sizes from both mills and stockholders, it has traditionally been more difficult to procure stainless steel sections due to lack of standardization in what has been a relatively small and fragmented market
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 29 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The need in the Industry to address this has been recognized for some time.
The BSSA has now taken a significant step towards meeting this requirement".
The directory can be downloaded and saved from the BSSA web site www.bssa.org.uk [enter 'Sections' in the search engine on the home page], either in part or in full.
This new directory also cross-references the specific products and properties included in the design tables section of Structural Design of Stainless Steel, a comprehensive source of practical design guidance from the Steel Construction Institute [SCI], which has been recently revised to incorporate recent advances in the understanding of the structural behavior of stainless steel.
With BSSA sponsorship, SCI has developed interactive software to assist architects and designers wishing to calculate section properties and member capacities according to UK design codes, which is now available on the internet free-of-charge.
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