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As awareness grows around the health and environmental impacts of everyday materials, stainless steel is emerging as a safer, more sustainable choice—especially in kitchens. This Stainless Steel World article explores why stainless steel isn’t just durable—it’s essential for the future of safe food preparation.

The NAWA Pavilion is a mesmerizing fusion of art and architecture, inviting visitors to step into its walkable embrace. Its mirror-polished Type 316 stainless steel arches appear to flow and transform with the shifting light and seasons, echoing the vitality of their surroundings.

The ICDA is honored to announce the winners of the 3rd edition of the Chromium Industry Sustainability Awards, an initiative sponsored by TELF AG.

The Taylor Yard Bridge spans the Los Angeles River, reconnecting two neighborhoods long divided by geography and history. Its bold, oversized design, pays homage to the area’s industrial past as a bustling railyard and serves as a striking landmark. Slender 2205 duplex stainless steel tension rods provide the strength and resilience needed to hold this iconic structure together.

worldstainless is proud to release the second edition of the Ferritic Stainless Steels brochure. We were immensely encouraged by the fact that our first edition of this brochure, released in 2007, was exceptionally well received and reached a very broad audience.

During the Annual Awards Ceremony of the world stainless association in Beijing on 14 May 2025 the winners of the 2025 Stainless Steel Industry Awards were announced. The Awards are given in four categories, Market Development, Technology, Safety and Sustainability. Since 2010 the association awards good practices and novel ideas in these categories every year.

The latest ICDA event - Members Meeting 2025 was another highly successful conference, underlining the ICDA’s position as the foremost global forum for the chromium industry since 1984.

Following the success of the ICDA Members Meeting 2025 in Ulanqab, ICDA is delighted to inform you that you can now register for the Chromium 2025 conference, scheduled to take place in Seville on 4-6 November 2025.

Drawing on real-world examples, this session will explain how subtle environmental differences between urban locations influence corrosion mechanisms, offering engineers, designers, and city planners a clearer understanding of what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to corrosion prevention in the cityscape.

These sessions reflect the Nickel Institute and IMOA’s commitment to advancing industry knowledge and giving confidence to specify nickel and moly-containing materials.

IMOA recently published an updated Life Cycle Analysis of Molybdenum Products for Metallurgical Applications. The products included in this updated 2024 LCI dataset are ...

The world stainless association has released figures for the full year of 2024, showing that stainless steel melt shop production has increased from 2023...

In Q4 2024, global production and trade of chrome ore and ferrochromium declined due to a combination of regional factors and uncertain economic outlook resulting in lower demand.

Global production of molybdenum was at 639.7 million pounds (mlbs) in 2024, a rise of 2% from 625.4 mlbs in 2023, figures released by the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) show.

In this edition of the Nickel Magazine, we examine nickel through the lens of Environmental, Social, and Governance principles. Download your copy here...

Like any other major industry, the stainless steels industry endeavours to reduce its operational CO2 emissions on an ongoing basis. worldstainless has...

As the world strives for climate neutrality, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) is an essential bridge to a sustainable future.

The ICDA is pleased to welcome Bulk Connections in the ICDA Membership. Read more here...

worldstainless has moved its LinkedIn page. Our LinkedIn page can now be found at https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/worldstainless2. Remember to hit the follow button...

We invite you to explore the case studies for the 3rd edition of the ICDA sustainability awards, sponsored by TELF AG.

In recent years, The Nickel Institute, in collaboration with the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA), has made significant strides in global knowledge-sharing by hosting a series of impactful webinars with the Indian Institute of Welding – Mumbai branch (IIW-Mumbai).

Discover who will be speaking at the ICDA Members Meeting 2025 in Ulanqab. We are proud to count on the support of prestigious local stakeholders, including the Ulanqab Government, the Xing Gang Lian Group, as well as several key industry associations.

The International Chromium Development Association is pleased to announce that it will host its landmark conference, Chromium, in Seville, Spain, on 4-6 November 2025.

The 4th edition of the ICDA Networking Dinner in Cape Town was another successful event, bringing together 100 delegates for an informative and friendly evening.

The ICDA have interviewed several of the women who are leading professionals in chromium sector. We asked them about their careers, the challenges they have faced, and the motivations that drive them.

When you hear the phrase "stainless steel kitchen", most people would first think of a professional kitchen. Stainless steel, is corrosion resistant, durable, resistant to mould and odours, hygienic and easy to clean.

Cable trays weave order into the chaos of cables and tubing, transforming sprawling installations into clean, efficient systems.

The latest edition of Nickel magazine features an analysis of where nickel stands in the strategic and critical ram materials debate as well as the magnificent stainless steel elephants of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport and much more.

IMOA’s new MolyReview is out now! In this issue, you can discover how molybdenum-containing stainless steel cable trays deliver exceptional performance.

The world stainless association has released figures for the first nine months of 2024, showing that stainless steel melt shop production has increased by 5.4% year-on-year to 46 million metric tons.

Chrome ore production saw a 3% decrease globally, whilst ferrochrome production fell by 1% in Q3 2024. More here.

The Nickel Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Veronique Steukers has taken up the position of President, effective 1 January.

The ICDA is pleased to announce that the ICDA will enhance its ESG support to the chromium industry and ICDA members with the recent hire of an ESG coordinator. Read more via this link

The protection of people can be considered from many perspectives including health and hygiene protection, physical safety protection and even mental wellbeing protection.

Have you reserved your place for the ICDA Members Meeting 2025 in Ulanqab, 13-15 May 2025? This event will provide an invaluable opportunity to discover...

The ICDA is opening a call for papers for its upcoming conference in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, PR China. Ulanqab has become a major ferroalloys production hub in China, representing about 68% of the Chinese ferrochrome capacity.

Best wishes for the New Year to our esteemed community and for the celebration of the Wood Snake Spring Festival!

The latest ICDA event in Cape Town, South Africa, was another highly successful conference, underlining the ICDA’s position as the foremost global forum for the chromium industry since 1984.

ICDA conferences are renowned for providing invaluable insights into the latest market trends from a diverse range of expert speakers.

An important milestone in the development of the The Copper Mark (including the Nickel Mark, Molybdenum Mark and Zinc Mark) has been achieved with its recognition by ResponsibleSteel.

ICDA is delighted to collaborate with the ResponsibleSteel team of experts to guarantee that our industry delivers a sustainable product to steel end-users and the final consumers and contribute to the social and economic advancement of our communities.

The world stainless association has released a report outlining the stainless steel industry emissions and data related to these emissions.

On Tuesday 30 July worldstainless Secretary-General Tim Collins visited the McNealy Brown's yard to view a new demonstration bridge developed by Network Rail and the AVA Bridge Consortium.

Stainless steels are a champion of recycling, with around 95% of end-of-life stainless steels being collected and recycled into new stainless steels without loss of quality. Durability and recyclability are two of the key contributions which stainless steels makes to sustainability.

Almost nothing is more important than water. Yet, transmission systems worldwide lose billions and billions of liters of water a year to leakage. The solution to reducing this leakage is multifaceted, but replacing existing service lines with molybdenum-containing Type 316 stainless steel has proven highly successful.

Knowing Nickel is the new video from the Nickel Institute which aims to give a high level insight into some of the important science concepts that are the basis for the safe use of nickel.

We are pleased to confirm the release of the summary of the first LCA for LC FeCr commissioned by the ICDA. Low carbon ferrochrome (LC FeCr), with a carbon content below 0.5%, is a ferroalloy used to regulate the ratio of chromium in steel production without adding carbon and other unwanted ingredients.