Architecture

Stainless steel is used in all aspects of architecture, building and construction. In use since the 1920’s, the use of stainless steel and the range of applications continues to grow. Aesthetic and functional, stainless steel is used for highly visible applications such as curtain wall and roofing, but is just as often found in practical, safety-related and sometimes hidden applications, like masonry and stone anchors, bollards and safety railings.

The more highly-alloyed molybdenum-containing stainless steels are preferred by leading architectural and landscape design and structural engineering firms for more corrosive locations because of their enhanced corrosion resistance.

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