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ASM Heat Treating Society CornerDOE ITP Training Sessions DOE’s one-day End User Workshop “Improving Thermal Efficiency in Process Heating Equipment” introduces standard process heating equipment and provides practical tips on: ASM Professional
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Industry NewsWestinghouse Specialty Metals Plant
Westinghouse Electric Co.’s Specialty Metals Plant, Blairsville, Pa., will be fitted with new equipment valued at nearly $13 million, including a vacuum annealing furnace from Seco/Warwick Corp., Meadville, Pa., and two high-speed pilgers used in the manufacture of seamless zirconium alloy tubing. The equipment is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2009.
Advance Process Heater Technology Funded by the DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Industrial Technology Program (ITP) and developed by STORM Development LLC, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Advance Process Heater (APH) technology offers increased efficiency in process heating applications. APH offers 70-80% efficiency over current state-of-the-art radiant tube combustion systems, and is ideal for the strip and wire annealing, heat treating, chemical, and aluminum industries. Solar Atmospheres Heat Treats
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa. heat treated two 4140 steel weldments, each weighing 11,000 lb. The pieces were normalized and tempered to achieve specific yield strength, while minimizing distortion, through controlled heating and cooling. The part is a component in a large tensile testing machine that tests braided steel cable for shipbuilding applications. POSCO Orders Siemens Siemens Metals Technologies, Linz, Austria, received an order from POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company Ltd.) to supply an extension to the existing Siemens Mulpic plate-cooling system installed on the 4.9-m wide plate mill at Posco’s No.2 Plate Mill in Pohang, Korea. The plate-cooling system allows modern production techniques such as precipitation strengthening and grain refinement to be used during the production process. NAM Says Economy Stuck In Low Gear National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) chief economist David Huether said the economy failed to create jobs in January 2008 for the first time since August 2003. Jobs on the factory floor dropped by 106,000 over the past year; with 93 percent of those jobs in either the motor vehicles sector or in industries closely connected with housing. The sharp decline in residential investment as well as slowing consumer demand for autos is having a significant negative impact on the manufacturing sector. OBITUARY Past ASM International president (1974-75) Dean K. Hanink passed away on January 19, 2008. Dean received his B.Sc. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1942 and started working at the Dodge Chicago plant for Walter Jominy. He joined GM Research in Detroit in 1945, where he received his first patent in 1948 for the Al-Dip process for aluminum coating of steel. Another 26 patents followed for automotive and aerospace applications. Dean was named a Fellow of American Society for Metals in 1971. He retired in 1981 from Gas Turbine Engines of the Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors, Indianapolis, where he was manager, Engineering Operations. ASM HTS Events
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