Bicycle builders continue to look for ways to improve the ride

Escondido, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/28/2011 -- Already proven and tested by KVA STAINLESS(TM) in other industries, notably automotive, the patented KVA MS2 (TM) stainless steel bike tubing can now be integrated into high performance bicycle frames. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, reduced weight, increase strength (safety) and stiffness, at a significant cost savings over many existing metal alloys.

After years of engineering and development, KVA STAINLESS introduced for the first time its new, patented stainless steel tubing known as MS2 at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) for road bikes and mountain bikes. Three different custom bike builders using MS2 bike tubing won awards at NAHBS.

For those that love photgenic bikes, this September, a cluster of NAHBS award-winning builders, which included Ellis Cycles (best road bike), and Rosene Bicycles (best new builder) displayed a range of their genius designs and artisanship using MS2 at KVA's booth at Interbike in Las Vegas, Nevada. A stainless steel, prototype thin-walled MS2 bicycle frame tubing for women and very light male cyclists was also on display too. This was designed in consultancy with another NAHBS award-winner, Sam Whittingham, of Naked Bicycles.

Since the formal launch of MS2 tubing at NAHBS in February this year, frame builders across the USA, Europe, and Asia, have been familiarizing themselves with the specific fabrication requirements of this US-made and sourced corrosion-resistant rolled tubing. The feedback is widely positive.

The popular SoCal builder, Ritte, (booth 24155) has rapidly built a reputation making road race bicycles, and is excited about building with MS2 tubing. Company founder, Spencer Canon, said, "We have noticed a certain liveliness in the ride quality of oversized stainless tubes that complements carbon fiber and it gives the frame a lot more feel. Of the stainless manufacturers, KVA offers more tubing options, which has allowed us to experiment more and come up with a design that has a carbon front triangle, and stainless rear triangle, lugs, bottom bracket shell, and head tube. From what we've seen, some of the stainless steel bikes and hybrids will be able to hold their own against all-carbon frames in a race."

Not all builders working with KVA's MS2 tubing are custom manufacturers. Colossi in Asia, and Cielo, by Chris King, in the USA are presently using the tubing on high-end stock bikes. The Cielo Sportif Racer SE will be available in Europe and the USA.

Douglas Gore, vice-president of sales and business development, said, "We just introduced our new stainless steel bike tubing at NAHBS. Bike builders have been very generous with their ideas and thoughts, as well as extremely supportive. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, outstanding durability, and toughness from our new MS² bicycle tubing. On the style side, stainless steel offers the timeless beauty and unmatched craftsmanship of an unpainted frame. In the olden days of cycling, pre-1975, bicycles were built with steel frames, plated steel spokes and chromed steel rims. When stainless steel spokes arrived everybody celebrated and immediately switched over. Stainless steel as a frame tubing material has held much promise, but until now has been seen as too expensive, too difficult to work with, or both; KVA STAINLESS solves these problems."

European bike builder. "Today I was able to assemble our first KVA stainless steel bike with some components I had laying around in my workshop. Although the frame is not finished, I was able to take it for a first ride. Although it was already dark outside, I was surprised to feel the first impression. The bike felt more crisp and direct than I had anticipated. I was expecting a more soft ride, but instead it felt very responsive. This was particularly noticeable when standing on the pedals, the bike really sets off once you put the power to the pedals."

Paul Taylor, of Taylor Bicycles, said, "KVA Stainless is willing to listen to the frame builders and what they have to say, and takes their input seriously. I like the fact that the tubing is made in America and is readily available, in stock, and offered in a variety of diameters and sizes. The quality of the KVA tubing is excellent and it's more user friendly and easier to work with than some of the competitors' stainless steel tubing. My customers love it!"

Alex Cook, of A-train Cycles, said, "I was surprised and impressed with the workability of KVA stainless tubing. KVA is an awesome company to do business with: from the ease of online ordering and customer services, to the care in packaging, and of course the finished product."

Mark Nobilette, of Nobilette Cycles, said, "I believe that KVA has finally made the stainless tube set that frame builders want. It integrates the best with the stainless fittings that are already out there."

Joe McCrink, production manager and Danny Codd, principal engineer, manned the booth at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin, where they noted much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from mountain to high-end road bikes. Codd said, "We had such an enthusiastic response, we are confident it is the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry. There has been a lot of interest, inquiries, and orders from custom hand-made bike builders too larger bicycle companies."

KVA STAINLESS' MS2 tubing uses a patented welding and thermal processing technology that turns rolls of stainless steel into bicycle tubing for road and mountain bikes.

MS2 tubing is made in the United States from first quality, domestic stainless steel alloys, using the most modern forming, welding and precision thermal processing technology available to produce custom-made butted bicycle tubing.

KVA STAINLESS and MS2 are trademarks of KVA Stainless Inc.

About KVA Stainless
KVA STAINLESS(TM) is a privately owned company that provides innovative, low-cost, advanced, high-strength, martensitic stainless steel processing technology and solutions to an industrial customer base. It specializes in first-rate research and development, high quality manufacturing standards, and uncompromising customer service. KVA STAINLESS has grown out of Hi-Temp inc. Founded in 1953, Hi-Temp was one of the largest processors of martensitic stainless steels in North America. KVA STAINLESS owns several proprietary and patent-pending processing, joining and manufacturing methods for martensitic stainless steels.

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Lightweight and high-strength hybrid tubing can now be produced for different industries

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/29/2011 -- KVA Stainless (MS2 patented technology) is working with a company that has invented a new patented carbon technology. The two companies are developing new hybrid bicycle tubing that incorporates the carbon technology with MS2 to produce bike frames for road and mountain bikes. Because of the characteristics of the different materials, this multi-material tube structure has the potential to be 30% lighter than the original stainless steel tubing and have improved bending/torsion performance.

This multi-material tubing possess unique vibration damping qualities due to the dissimilar natural frequencies of the fiber based composites and stainless steel. This vibration damping effect gives improved "feel" to bicycle frames and components when compared to the vibrations generated by single material metal surfaces.

Having MS2 Stainless Steel and Carbon, combines the best attributes of advanced composites with those of stainless steel. We start with MS2 stainless steel tubing and then design and engineer a precise pattern to be laser machined to remove the optimal amount of material from the tube.

The resulting lightweight metal shell is then fused (using the company's patented Bi/Fusion Technology) with an advanced composite inner structure molded during a secondary process using elevated temperature and pressure.

Road bikes, mountain bikes, and bmx bikes will be fabricated and with this new carbon/stainless steel technology and tested over the next couple of months in the laboratory and within real world environments.

For more information contact:
Douglas Gore
Tel. 760.489.5821
Dgore@kvastainless.com or http://www.kvastainless.com

KVA STAINLESS and MS2 are trademarks of KVA Stainless Inc.

About KVA Stainless
KVA STAINLESS is a privately owned company that provides innovative, low-cost, advanced, high-strength, martensitic stainless steel processing technology and solutions to an industrial customer base. It specializes in first-rate research and development, high quality manufacturing standards, and uncompromising customer service. KVA STAINLESS has grown out of Hi-Temp inc. Founded in 1953, Hi-Temp was one of the largest processors of martensitic stainless steels in North America. KVA STAINLESS owns several proprietary and patent-pending processing, joining and manufacturing methods for martensitic stainless steels.

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Bicycle builders continue to look for ways to improve the ride

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/27/2011 -- Already proven and tested by KVA STAINLESS(TM) in other industries, notably automotive, the patented KVA's stainless steel structural tubing can now be integrated into high performance bicycle frames. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, reduced weight, increase strength (safety) and stiffness, at a significant cost savings over many existing metal alloys.

After years of engineering and development, KVA STAINLESS introduced for the first time its new, patented stainless steel tubing known as (MS2)TM at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) for road bikes and mountain bikes. Three bike builders using MS2 bike tubing won awards at NAHBS.

Douglas Gore, vice-president of sales and business development, said, "We just introduced our new stainless steel bike tubing at NAHBS. Bike builders have been very generous with their ideas and thoughts, as well as extremely supportive. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, outstanding durability, and toughness from our new MS² bicycle tubing. On the style side, stainless steel offers the timeless beauty and unmatched craftsmanship of an unpainted frame. In the olden days of cycling, pre-1975, bicycles were built with steel frames, plated steel spokes and chromed steel rims. When stainless steel spokes arrived everybody celebrated and immediately switched over. Stainless steel as a frame tubing material has held much promise, but until now has been seen as too expensive, too difficult to work with, or both; KVA STAINLESS solves these problems."

European bike builder "Today I was able to assemble our first KVA stainless steel bike with some components I had laying around in my workshop. Although the frame is not finished, I was able to take it for a first ride. Although it was already dark outside, I was surprised to feel the first impression. The bike felt more crisp and direct than I had anticipated. I was expecting a more soft ride, but instead it felt very responsive. This was particularly noticeable when standing on the pedals, the bike really sets off once you put the power to the pedals."

Paul Taylor, of Taylor Bicycles, said, "KVA Stainless is willing to listen to the frame builders and what they have to say, and takes their input seriously. I like the fact that the tubing is made in America and is readily available, in stock, and offered in a variety of diameters and sizes. The quality of the KVA tubing is excellent and it's more user friendly and easier to work with than some of the competitors' stainless steel tubing. My customers love it!"

Alex Cook, of A-train Cycles, said, "I was surprised and impressed with the workability of KVA stainless tubing. KVA is an awesome company to do business with: from the ease of online ordering and customer services, to the care in packaging, and of course the finished product."

Mark Nobilette, of Nobilette Cycles, said, "I believe that KVA has finally made the stainless tube set that frame builders want. It integrates the best with the stainless fittings that are already out there."

Joe McCrink, production manager and Danny Codd, principal engineer, manned the booth at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin, where they noted much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from mountain to high-end road bikes. Codd said, "We had such an enthusiastic response, we are confident it is the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry. There has been a lot of interest, inquiries, and orders from custom hand-made bike builders too larger bicycle companies."

KVA STAINLESS and MS² are trademarks of KVA Stainless Inc.

About KVA Stainless
KVA STAINLESS(TM) is a privately owned company that provides innovative, low-cost, advanced, high-strength, martensitic stainless steel processing technology and solutions to an industrial customer base. It specializes in first-rate research and development, high quality manufacturing standards, and uncompromising customer service. KVA STAINLESS has grown out of Hi-Temp inc. Founded in 1953, Hi-Temp was one of the largest processors of martensitic stainless steels in North America. KVA STAINLESS owns several proprietary and patent-pending processing, joining and manufacturing methods for martensitic stainless steels.

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Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/25/2011 -- Already proven and tested by KVA STAINLESS in other industries, notably automotive, the patented KVA's stainless steel structural tubing can now be integrated into high performance bicycle frames. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, reduced weight, increase strength (safety) and stiffness, at a significant cost savings over many existing metal alloys.

After years of engineering and development, KVA STAINLESS(TM) introduced MS2 (TM) at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show its new, patented method of turning rolls of stainless steel sheeting into bicycle tubing, known as MS² for road and mountain bikes.

Stainless steel as a frame tubing material has held much promise, but until now has been seen as too expensive, too difficult to work with, or both. KVA STAINLESS solves these problems.

MS² tubing is made in the United States from first quality, domestic stainless steel alloys, using the most modern forming, welding and precision thermal processing technology available to produce custom-made butted bicycle tubing.

Douglas Gore, vice-president of sales and business development, said, "Bike builders have been very generous with their ideas and thoughts, as well as extremely supportive. Cyclists should expect excellent ride characteristics, outstanding durability, and toughness from our new MS² bicycle tubing. On the style side, stainless steel offers the timeless beauty and unmatched craftsmanship of an unpainted frame. In the olden days of cycling, pre-1975, bicycles were built with steel frames, plated steel spokes and chromed steel rims. When stainless steel spokes arrived everybody celebrated and immediately switched over. Stainless steel as a frame tubing material has held much promise, but until now has been seen as too expensive, too difficult to work with, or both; KVA STAINLESS solves these problems."

European bike builder. "Today I was able to assemble our first KVA stainless steel bike with some components I had laying around in my workshop. Although the frame is not finished, I was able to take it for a first ride. Although it was already dark outside, I was surprised to feel the first impression. The bike felt more crisp and direct than I had anticipated. I was expecting a more soft ride, but instead it felt very responsive. This was particularly noticeable when standing on the pedals, the bike really sets off once you put the power to the pedals."

Paul Taylor, of Taylor Bicycles, said, "KVA Stainless is willing to listen to the frame builders and what they have to say, and takes their input seriously. I like the fact that the tubing is made in America and is readily available, in stock, and offered in a variety of diameters and sizes. The quality of the KVA tubing is excellent and it's more user friendly and easier to work with than some of the competitors' stainless steel tubing. My customers love it!"

Alex Cook, of A-train Cycles, said, "I was surprised and impressed with the workability of KVA stainless tubing. KVA is an awesome company to do business with: from the ease of online ordering and customer services, to the care in packaging, and of course the finished product."

Mark Nobilette, of Nobilette Cycles, said, "I believe that KVA has finally made the stainless tube set that frame builders want. It integrates the best with the stainless fittings that are already out there."

KVA STAINLESS sells individual tubes and complete sets in a wide range of sizes, for road and off-road uses.
Over the last three years, production manager, Joe McCrink and director of engineering, Danny Codd, have manufactured and tested numerous road bike frames using MS2 tubing.

McCrink said, "We are aware of a growing interest in stainless steel frames; riders reportedly like the look and feel of stainless steel."

McCrink and Codd recently attended Interbike to network with bicycle manufacturers, where they noted much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from mountain to high-end road bikes. Codd said, "We had such an enthusiastic response, we are confident it is the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry."

For more information contact:
Douglas Gore
Tel. 760.489.5821
Dgore@kvastainless.com

KVA STAINLESS and MS² are trademarks of KVA Stainless Inc.

About KVA Stainless
KVA STAINLESS(TM) is a privately owned company that provides innovative, low-cost, advanced, high-strength, martensitic stainless steel processing technology and solutions to an industrial customer base. It specializes in first-rate research and development, high quality manufacturing standards, and uncompromising customer service. KVA STAINLESS has grown out of Hi-Temp inc. Founded in 1953, Hi-Temp was one of the largest processors of martensitic stainless steels in North America. KVA STAINLESS owns several proprietary and patent-pending processing, joining and manufacturing methods for martensitic stainless steels.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Stainless Steel frames may sound out of date, but for strength, safety, repairability, durability, and aesthetic beauty, nothing beats steel or Stainless Steel.

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/23/2010 -- Martensitic Stainless Steel has been the preferred and specified stainless steel for airplane turbine blades and ball bearings because of the high strength characteristics and durability. Already proven and tested by KVA STAINLESS in other industries such as automotive, patented KVA martensitic stainless steel (MS2) structural tubing is now being manufactured and sold by KVA STAINLESS for the fabrication of high performance bike frames and bicycle fork blades.

MS2 Stainless steel bike tubing for road and mountain bike frames was just released to bike frame builders and to the public in December 2010. KVA STAINLESS recently finalized several new stainless steel fork blade designs with the intention of making them available to bike frame builders and the public in February of 2011.

"These new fork blade designs will be incorporated into several different styles of bicycle frames and displayed at our booth at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in February," says Douglas Gore, vice-president of sales and business development.

Over the last three years, Joe McCrink, production manager and Danny Codd, principal engineer, have manufactured and tested numerous road bike frames using MS2 tubing. McCrink stated, "There is a growing interest for stainless steel frames as riders like the 'feel of stainless steel'. McCrink and Codd recently attended Interbike to network with bicycle manufacturers. "There was much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from mountain to high-end road bikes. It's the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry," says Codd.

Many people believe engineering is more important than materials, but that is not entirely true. The differences in material-especially failure modes-can increase safety and reduce injuries. Stainless steel frames may sound out of date, but for strength, safety, repairability, durability, and aesthetic beauty, nothing beats steel or Stainless Steel.

Weight has been hyped in the media to the point that manufacturers are creating frames that are just one bad bump away from disaster. If you have not seen the results of failed forks and handlebars, try Googling "broken fork." It's not a pretty picture. The number of failures in high-end forks and frames is astounding, all because manufacturers feel pressure to defy the laws of physics with lighter and lighter forks and frames.

Safety is defined not just by the durability of a part, but also by the warnings the rider receives before component failure. A part that bends before it breaks is safer than one that snaps suddenly. Material strength equals safety, but what kind of strength?

Of the most common materials used in bike frames today, carbon fiber has the highest rate of catastrophic failure. Steel and Stainless Steel has the lowest rate of catastrophic failure. "When steel fails, it fails slowly. In a sport where speed is the name of the game, failure is the one area where it's good to be slow. Real slow," says Gore.

About KVA Stainless Inc.
KVA Stainless Inc., based in San Diego, CA, is an engineering and research company that also manufactures seam welded stainless steel tubing. KVA has spent years developing and patenting it's technologies around air hardenable martensitic stainless steels and other hardenable ferrous alloys, which can be used for tubes, pipes, structures, components or parts. For additional information on our bike tubing, please visit http://www.kvastainless.com/bicycles.html#tubing-info or call 760-489-5821.

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KVA STAINLESS introduces a new patented high-strength stainless steel tubing technology for bicycles.

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/13/2010 -- After years of engineering and development, KVA STAINLESS is introducing its new, patented, custom-made stainless steel tubing for bicycles.

"Riders should expect excellent ride characteristics with outstanding durability and toughness from our new MS² bicycle tubing," says Douglas Gore, KVA STAINLESS vice-president of sales.

MS² tubing is made in the U.S.A. from first quality domestic stainless steel alloys using the most modern forming, welding and precision thermal processing technology available to produce custom-made tubing, including variable wall thickness known as "butted" tubes.

The resulting stainless tube set is light and strong, and not nearly as expensive to produce as a seamless tube when compared to other stainless steel alloys or other metals, including titanium.

Already proven by KVA STAINLESS in other industries, patented KVA STAINLESS martensitic stainless structural tubing can now be integrated into high performance bicycle frames to reduce weight, increase strength and stiffness, at a significant cost savings over competitive materials.

Over the last two years, Joe McCrink, production manager and Danny Codd, director of engineering have manufactured and tested numerous road bike frames using MS2 tubing. McCrink stated, "There is a growing interest for stainless steel frames as riders like the 'feel of steel'." McCrink and Codd recently attended Interbike to network with bicycle manufacturers. "There was much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from BMX to high-end road bikes. It's the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry," says Codd.

Ed McCrink, the founder of KVA STAINLESS set up Hi-Temp, Inc. in 1953 and grew the company into one of the largest thermal processors of martensitic stainless steels in the United States. Successful with this venture, Mr. McCrink sold Hi-Temp in the 1970s and, with an entrepreneurial spirit, moved on to a number of different ventures. But Mr. McCrink couldn't forget about martensitic stainless steel. Mr. McCrink wondered why people weren't using this material in structural applications. Years after he sold the company, he came back to his roots of metallurgy, and he wanted to introduce the high strength features and benefits of martensitic stainless steel to different industries.

About KVA Stainless Inc.
KVA Stainless Inc., (http://www.kvastainless.com), based in San Deigo, CA, is an engineering and research company that also manufactures seam welded stainless steel tubing. KVA has spent years developing and patenting it's technologies around air hardenable martensitic stainless steels and other hardenable ferrous alloys, which can be used for tubes, pipes, structures, components or parts. For additional information on our bike tubing, please visit http://www.kvastainless.com/bicycles.html#tubing-info or call 760-489-5821.

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Patented Technology Creates a New Market for High Strength Stainless Steel Tubing

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/03/2010 -- After years of engineering and development, KVA STAINLESS is introducing its new, patented, custom-made stainless steel bicycle tubing called MS² for high-performance bicycle frame applications. You can purchase on-line or give us a call…

Already proven by KVA STAINLESS in other industries, patented KVA STAINLESS martensitic stainless structural tubing can now be integrated into high performance bicycle frames to reduce weight, increase strength and stiffness, at a significant cost savings over competitive materials. KVA STAINLESS controlled atmosphere thermal processing ensures consistent, high-quality tubing.

MS² is an air-hardenable, martensitic stainless steel with amazing tensile strength > 200 ksi (1400 Mpa) which means it's twice as strong as titanium with a frame weight comparable to high-end aluminum. The tubing has excellent corrosion-resistance, with elongation > 14% and a hardness ~ 38-42 HRC.

MS²tubing is made in the U.S.A. from first quality domestic stainless steel alloys using the most modern forming, welding and precision thermal processing technology available to produce custom-made tubing, including variable wall thickness known as "butted" tubes.

"Riders should expect excellent ride characteristics with outstanding durability and toughness from our new MS² bicycle tubing," says Douglas Gore, KVA STAINLESS vice-president of sales. Excellent mechanical properties, including specific strength and stiffness, toughness and fatigue performance, can be achieved using MS² tubing in place of other materials. Ideal applications include silver brazed lugged construction and TIG welded bicycle frames.

Over the last two years, Joe McCrink, production manager and Danny Codd, director of engineering have manufactured and tested numerous road bike frames using MS2 tubing. McCrink stated, "There is a growing interest for stainless steel frames as riders like the 'feel of steel'." McCrink and Codd recently attended Interbike to network with bicycle manufacturers. "There was much excitement and interest in KVA's stainless steel tubing technology across all bicycle market segments, from BMX to high-end road bikes. It's the right time for this technology in the bicycle industry," says Codd.

Ed McCrink, the founder of KVA STAINLESS set up Hi-Temp, Inc. in 1953 and grew the company into one of the largest thermal processors of martensitic stainless steels in the United States. Successful with this venture, Mr. McCrink sold Hi-Temp in the 1970s and, with an entrepreneurial spirit, moved on to a number of different ventures. But Mr. McCrink couldn't forget about martensitic stainless steel. Mr. McCrink wondered why people weren't using this material in structural applications. Years after he sold the company, he came back to his roots of metallurgy, and he wanted to introduce the high strength features and benefits of martensitic stainless steel to different industries.

Working with a team of engineers and metallurgists, Mr. McCrink developed a way to take flat sheets of martensitic stainless steel and transform them into tubes. "Rolling the sheet to create the tube was never the hard part, welding a seam in martensitic steel so the tube became one, homogenous structure was always the issue" said Gore. After years of engineering and testing, Mr. McCrink found a method to prevent the inherent cracking and weakness when a martensitic stainless steel tube is high-speed seam welded.

The resulting stainless tube is light and strong, and not nearly as expensive to produce as a seamless tube when compared to other stainless steel alloys or other metals, including titanium.

For additional information, please visit KVA STAINLESS website http://www.kvastainless.com/bicycles.html#tubing-info or call 760-489-5821.

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Performance of Titanium at a Fraction of the Cost…

Escondido, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/27/2010 -- KVA Stainless is a breakthrough 21st century stainless steel technology company that has invented an innovative stainless steel processing technology that creates stronger, lighter stainless steel.

Years have been spent developing proprietary and patented methods to produce welded and brazed tubular forms, stamped and shelled structures, using martensitic corrosion resistant stainless steels. KVA Stainless processing technology enables the use of proven high-strength, high-performance materials in new exciting applications to reduce weight, increase strength, increase in durability, improved fatigue performance, enhanced corrosion resistance and cost savings in material, while reducing manufacturing costs.

"Martensitic Stainless Steel (MS2) processing can benefit any market segment where component weight, strength and corrosion resistance are critical issues, providing a superior alternative to existing steels or alloys, while increasing the actual and perceived value of finished products, says Douglas Gore, VP of Sales." "Using our unique, patented technology, our high-strength steel provides automakers with a cost effective and immediate solution for increasing gas mileage and improving crash worthiness of their vehicles."

KVA has spent over 40 years thinking outside the box to create and develop new and innovative ideas and products that encompass stainless steel alloys. Primarily an engineering company specializing in research and development, KVA has numerous United States Patents, International Patents, as well as a portfolio of patents pending. We continue to be innovators of Stainless Steel alloys for markets that include: agriculture, bio pharma, automotive components & structures, aviation components & structures, gas & oil production/pipelines, heat exchangers, medical devices, nuclear, petrochemical & process piping, sports equipment, train/rail cars & equipment and many more!

The founder of KVA, Ed McCrink, along with the scientific team has over 60 years combined experience in thermal processing, metallurgy, automated welding, brazing and mechanical design.

Ed McCrink founded Hi-Temp, Inc. in 1953 and grew the company to become one of the largest thermal processors of stainless steels in North America. Ed has continuously pursued his vision of utilizing commonly available, low-cost martensitic stainless steels to reduce weight and increase strength in components and structures.

KVA Stainless is presently selling high strength, lightweight, martensitic stainless steel tubing and looking for strategic partners for licensing opportunities.

For more information on this new technology, please contact: Douglas Gore, VP Sales, KVA Stainless, 760-489-5821, dgore@kvastainless.com, http://www.kvastainless.com

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