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Molybdenum videos

A World with Molybdenum

Molybdenum is a naturally occurring element, found all around us and in a myriad of applications including transport, construction, energy generation, utilities, agriculture and medicine. It is also essential – meaning that life cannot be sustained without it. This IMOA video looks at the role of molybdenum in everyday life. (3mins)


Stainless Steel

 Molybdenum and Sustainability


Explore how molybdenum is helping architects and specifiers to be clean and green. Catherine Houska, Metallurgical Engineer and Materials Scientist, talks about the contribution of molybdenum-containing stainless steel to sustainability and why it is selected as a long-life building material. (3mins)

Molybdenum and Durability


Discover how molybdenum-containing stainless steel makes buildings last for more than 100 years. Catherine Houska, Metallurgical Engineer and Materials Scientist, focuses on the durability and corrosion resistance of molybdenum-containing stainless steel and why it is increasingly specified for world's most iconic buildings and structures. (6mins)

Molybdenum in Architecture


Learn why molybdenum-containing stainless steel is increasingly the material of choice in architecture, building and construction. Catherine Houska, Metallurgical Engineer and Materials Scientist, assesses the benefits of molybdenum-containing stainless steel in some of the world's most iconic buildings, looking at some of the reasons for its enduring popularity amongst architects and specifiers. (5mins)

Alloyed Steels

The Role of Molybdenum in Light-weighting Vehicles


Explore how molybdenum contributes to making vehicles more fuel efficient and safe. Professor Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, discusses how newly developed molybdenum-alloyed steels are helping to tackle the important challenge of light-weighting vehicles, including electric vehicles.

The Role of Molybdenum in Combating Hydrogen Embrittlement in Ultra-high Strength Steels


Professor Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, discusses how molybdenum is combating hydrogen embrittlement in ultra-high strength steels.

The Role of Molybdenum in Wind Power Generation


Discover the crucial role molybdenum plays in the generation of wind power. Professor Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, discusses the increasingly important role molybdenum will play as the size of wind turbines increases in the coming years.

Molybdenum in Automotive Steels


Explore how molybdenum is helping vehicles to be lighter and more fuel efficient. Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, explains how the demand for lighter, stronger automotive steels has created an increasingly important role for molybdenum in advanced steels such as press-hardening and third-generation steels.

Molybdenum in Pipeline Steels


Find out how molybdenum is essential to meet the increasing demands of pipeline steels. Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, talks about the combination of properties required for pipelines and how molybdenum-alloyed steel has become more cost-effective as material performance demands have continued to increase. (6mins)

Molybdenum in Gear Steels


Discover the reason why molybdenum adds greater strength to demanding gear steel applications in industry. Hardy Mohrbacher, a specialist in materials and mechanical engineering, discusses the unique characteristics of gear steels and how molybdenum helps steel producers achieve them, cost effectively. (5mins)

Essentiality of Molybdenum

An introduction to molybdenum


Learn about molybdenum and its role in the origins of life on earth. Dr Philip Mitchell, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow and Emeritus Reader in Chemistry at the University of Reading, explains how as a naturally-occurring element, molybdenum is life-sustaining and is found everywhere, including water, soil, animals, plants and the human body, albeit at low concentrations. (2mins)

Molybdenum, Essentiality and human Health


Learn about the life-sustaining role of molybdenum in life. Dr Philip Mitchell, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow and Emeritus Reader in Chemistry at the University of Reading, explains why molybdenum is essential to humans, typical sources of molybdenum in everyday foods and the daily amount of molybdenum required for good health. (2mins)

Molybdenum and Animal Health and Plant Life


Learn about the life-sustaining role of molybdenum in life. Dr Philip Mitchell, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow and Emeritus Reader in Chemistry at the University of Reading, explains why molybdenum is essential to humans, typical sources of molybdenum in everyday foods and the daily amount of molybdenum required for good health. (4mins)

Stainless Flexible Service Lines

Stainless Flexible Service Lines – The fit and forget solution


Discover how a Stainless Flexible Service Line, made from stainless steel partially corrugated tubing, is a robust, safe and highly durable solution for service line applications. Already proven to dramatically reduce water loss in some of Asia's largest cities, it offers water utilities major benefits. It's easy to install, it's cost-effective and above all it offers an environmentally sustainable solution that will ensure the delivery of safe water supplies for generations to come. (1min)

Installation of a Stainless Flexible Service Line – The fit and forget solution


Explore the quick and easy installation of a Stainless Flexible Service Line. Made from stainless steel partially corrugated tubing, it is a robust, safe and highly durable solution for service line applications. Already proven to dramatically reduce water loss in some of Asia's largest cities, it offers water utilities major benefits. It's easy to install, it's cost-effective and above all it offers an environmentally sustainable solution that will ensure the delivery of safe water supplies for generations to come. (10mins)