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ASB Industries adds a new Plasma Electric Arc system to its thermal spray equipment
ASB Industries, Barberton, Ohio, announces that it recently purchased a new Plasma Electric Arc system to increase spray capacity, turning another thermal spray production room into a multi-process-capable area.
Continue readingSpirit Aerosystems and Norsk Titanium to produce 3D-printed titanium components
Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, Kan., and Norsk Titanium AS, Sweden, have entered into a commercial agreement to produce 3D-printed structural titanium components for the commercial aerospace industry via Norsk Titanium’s proprietary plasma-arc Rapid Plasma Deposition technology.
Continue readingNitrex awarded contract for turnkey nitriding system by European auto components supplier
Nitrex Metal Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, announces that a European automotive components supplier has awarded it a contract for the supply of a turnkey nitriding system with potential-controlled Nitreg technology.
Continue readingIpsen Atlas integral quench batch furnace helps ThermTech meet growing demand
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that heat treating firm ThermTech recently purchased another Atlas integral quench batch furnace for carburizing, carbonitriding, and neutral hardening while supporting business from the oil and gas and heavy equipment industries.
Continue readingBodycote awarded GM supplier quality excellence award for carburizing and nitriding
Bodycote, England, announces that its plant in Silao, Mexico, has been awarded the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for 2016.
Continue readingCliffs Natural Resources to invest $700 million in Toledo hot briquetted iron plant
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, announces that it will invest $700 million for the development of its first hot briquetted iron (HBI) production plant, to be located at a site in Toledo, Ohio.
Continue readingOerlikon, GE Additive collaborate to accelerate additive manufacturing industrialization
Oerlikon, Switzerland, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GE Additive, Pittsburgh, to collaborate on accelerating the industrialization of additive manufacturing.
Continue readingNano-fabricated metamaterial optical filter protects aircraft pilots from laser beams
Airbus subsidiary Satair Group, Atlanta, and Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and its optical filters division Lamda Guard of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will lead to an exclusive multi-million dollar global distribution agreement to bring MTI’s laser protection product MetaAir to the civil aviation market.
Continue readingOptomec awarded NASA contract for 3D printing of electronics by ALSS
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the company has been awarded a NASA SBIR contract for the further development of an adaptive laser sintering system (ALSS) for electronics.
Continue readingNanoSteel launches 3D-printable tool steel for laser powder bed fusion
Nanosteel, Providence, R.I., announces the launch of its first product for the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process.
Continue readingDanieli to build JSW Steel “Plate Mill of the Future” in Texas for higher quality and precision
JSW Steel (USA) Baytown, Texas, has received preliminary Board approval, contingent upon securing governmental financial support, to proceed with a full-scale modernization project expected to take approximately 20 months to complete.
Continue readingAutomatic surface area analyzer designed for multiple metal and ceramic powders
Quantachrome Instruments, Boynton Beach, Fla., introduces the AutoFlow BET+, an automatic surface area analyzer designed for high-speed, high-throughput analyses of metal and ceramic powders and porous materials.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Depth Profiles of Nitrided Stainless Steel AISI 316
The graph shows composition-depth profiles of nitrided stainless steel AISI 316 as determined with glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GDOES).
Continue readingArcelorMittal Long Products Canada completes $20 million finishing line at Quebec bar mill
ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada, Longueuil, Quebec, has inaugurated a new$20 million finishing line at its bar mill, to increase the facility’s annual rolling capacity from 400,000 to 500,000 metric tons.
Continue readingLindberg box furnace built for batch testing aluminum automotive castings
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a large-chamber utility box furnace to an automotive supplier for batch testing aluminum castings on a daily basis at a temperature of 932°F.
Continue readingSpirit invests $30 million in five-axis machining center for aluminum and titanium aircraft parts
Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, Kan., announces a new center of excellence focusing on the fabrication of complex aluminum and titanium commercial and military aircraft parts by new five-axis machines.
Continue readingLeica DM3 XL microscope system inspects wafers fast with 30% larger field of view
Leica Microsystems Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill., has developed the DM3 XL microscope inspection system for process control or defect and failure analysis in the microelectronics and semiconductor industry.
Continue readingBrewer Science sells its semiconductor processing equipment business unit
Brewer Science, Rolla, Mo., announces that its Cee semiconductor processing equipment business unit has been sold to former Brewer Science employee Russ Pagel, who has formed a new company, Cost Effective Equipment LLC, to take over ownership and operate the business.
Continue readingBruker launches next-gen WDXRF spectrometer for advanced quantitative analysis
Bruker Corp., Germany, launches its S8 Tiger Series 2, the next-generation wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, said to be the most versatile WDXRF tool available for advanced quantitative elemental analysis.
Continue readingCompact mass spectrometer designed for analysis of semiconductor process gases
JEOL USA, Peabody, Mass., introduces its new compact InfiTOF mass spectrometer, which is designed for real-time, direct gas introduction and analysis.
Continue readingHitachi’s Regulus field emission SEMs feature resolution down to 0.9 nanometer
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Japan, introduces the new Regulus series of field emission scanning electron microscopes that offer enhanced functionality with improved resolution and operability.
Continue readingImec and Cascade Microtech develop pre-bond testing system for advanced 3D chips
Imec, Belgium, and Cascade Microtech, Germany, announce the successful development of a fully automatic system for pre-bond testing of advanced 3D chips.
Continue readingAmkor Technology completes acquisition of Nanium for its semiconductor packaging
Amkor Technology Inc., Tempe, Ariz., has completed the acquisition of Nanium S.A., Portugal, a provider of wafer-level fan-out semiconductor packaging solutions.
Continue readingOptical silicone binder extends thermal stability to >180°C for chip-scale LED packaging
Dow Corning, Midland, Mich., introduces Dow Corning CL-1000 optical silicone binder, a new, more thermally stable, high-refractive-index material that is formulated to expand design options for high-power chip-scale LED packaging (CSP).
Continue readingIBM technology for building transistors from silicon nanosheets will enable 5nm chips
IBM, Armonk, N.Y., announces the development of the first industry process for building silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5nm chips.
Continue readingGlobal semiconductor sales increase by 21% year-to-year in April
The Semiconductor Industry Association, Washington, D.C., reports that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $31.3 billion for the month of April 2017, an increase of 20.9 percent from the April 2016 total of $25.9 billion, and 1.3 percent more than the March total of $30.9 billion.
Continue readingAdvanced high-strength steel ore unloading system wins 2017 Swedish Steel Prize
SSAB, Stockholm, announces that the 2017 winner of the Swedish Steel Prize is Kiruna Wagon of Sweden for its Helix Dumper, a highly durable and far more efficient ore-unloading wagon than other ore wagons on the market.
Continue readingEck Industries licenses cerium-aluminum alloy that resists corrosion and high heat
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., announces that Eck Industries, Manitowoc, Wis., has signed an exclusive license for the commercialization of a cerium-aluminum (Ce-Al) alloy that is easy to work with, lightweight, corrosion-resistant, and exceptionally stable at high temperatures.
Continue readingSuperelasticity measured on nanometer pillars of Cu-Ni-Al shape-memory alloy
UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, announces that its researchers have explored superelasticity properties on a nanometer scale based on shearing a Cu-14Al-4Ni shape-memory alloy’s pillars down to nanometric size.
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