The Nickel Institute has produced a special edition of their May 2012 Nickel magazine which celebrates the 100 year Centenary f Stainless Steel.

Today, at the end of our first hundred years, there are five familiesof stainless steels: ferritic, austenitic, martensitic, duplex and a group of precipitationhardening alloys. Collectively they offer qualities that make them indispensible to anextraordinary range of industrial, structural, architectural, medical and aesthetic end uses.

Over the same period, the world has come to understand the value and merit of returningend-of-life stainless steel (scrap in its many forms) to service through recycling. The use ofstainless steel reduces the material intensity of society by making goods durable. Indeed,it has become one of the worlds most intensively and profitably recycled materials

You can download and view this special edition of the Nickel Magazine HERE.