Company Reinventing Itself with New Stainless Steel Technology

March 26, 2010 - PRLog -- ESCONDIDO, Calif. – KVA's high-strength stainless steel provides manufacturers  with a cost effective and immediate solution for producing lightweight and high-strength components and parts without increasing costs.  

One of KVA's patented methods controls the welding process to enable high-speed welds without brittleness, says Danny Codd, KVA’s principal engineer. This opens up martensitic stainless steel to markets previously thought impractical such as lightweight automotive components & structures, gas & oil production/pipelines, aviation components & structures, medical devices, bicycles, baseball bats, wheelchairs, golf shafts, heat exchangers, bridges & buildings, dairy, petrochemical & processing equipment, and rail cars.

The founder of KVA Stainless, Ed McCrink fell in love with martensitic stainless steel after founding Hi-Temp Inc., one of the largest thermal processors in the United States that specialized in continuous thermal processing. McCrink has continuously pursued his vision of utilizing martensitic stainless steels to reduce weight and increase strength in components and structures. KVA Stainles was founded several years ago by McCrink and is becoming a leader in stainless steel research and development.

For more information on this new technology, please contact: Douglas Gore, VP Sales & Business Development, KVA Stainless, 124 S. Market Pl., Ste. 200, Escondido, CA 92029, Direct: 760-489-5821, dgore@kvastainless.com,  www.kvastainless.com

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Located in southern California, KVA Stainless is a growing R&D venture focused on developing and promoting uses for lightweight, ultra high-strength, low cost alloys. KVA Stainless' technical staff, with a combined 60 years experience in thermal processing, metallurgy, automated welding, brazing and mechanical design, have developed numerous proprietary and patent-pending processing and manufacturing methods to enable the use of lightweight, corrosion-resistant, hardened stainless steel components throughout industry.

Additionally, our strategic parterships with production fabricators, production thermal processors, tube mills, finishing/coating houses and metrology services allows for KVA Stainless to coordinate larger prototype and production runs efficiently and cost-effectively.