Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated gas nitriding pit furnace with an ammonia dissociator system for heat treating steel parts.

Classic article from July 1933 Metal Progress

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that in the past few weeks it has shipped five customized MetalMaster vacuum furnaces to companies in locations around the world: Washington, South Carolina, Mexico, and China.

Praxair Surface Technologies Inc., Danbury, Conn., and GE Aviation, Cincinnati, announce the formal creation of PG Technologies LLC, a joint venture that will focus on development, support, and application of specialized coatings tailored for GE Aviation’s and CFM International’s current and future engine models, including the GE9X and LEAP engines.

Norsk Titanium U.S. Inc., Plattsburgh, N.Y., a subsidiary of Norsk Titanium AS, Norway, announces that in Q4 2016 it will open a nearly 70,000-sq.-ft. additive manufacturing production and training facility that will complement its new headquarters and manufacturing plant, which is currently in the design and planning phase with a targeted completion date in 2017.

Weldaloy, Warren, Mich., has added a new low-temperature aluminum aging oven to its facility in order to increase aluminum heat-treating capacity.

Siemens AG, Germany, has acquired a majority stake (85%) in Materials Solutions Ltd., England, for its capabilities in additive manufacture of superalloy parts.

The University of Toronto announces that Distinguished Professor in Plasma Engineering Javad Mostaghimi has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his research on simulating the dynamics of droplet impact and solidification in thermal spray coating processes.