TimkenSteel, Canton, Ohio, recently opened a $5 million technology center for developing clean special bar quality (SBQ) steel and new steel grades.
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Testing unmanned aircraft systems
NASA, working with government and industry partners, is testing a system that would make it possible for unmanned aircraft to fly routine operations in U.S. airspace.
Continue readingSecoWarwick to deliver equipment for recycling aerospace titanium in Europe
Seco-Warwick Europe, Poland, together with Retech Systems, Ukiah, Calif., have signed a contract for delivery of a comprehensive melt-shop equipment package to a new European facility for recycling aviation-grade titanium.
Continue readingDual chamber furnace enables simultaneous hardening and tempering
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., announces that a Red Devil dual chamber furnace has been added to the line of analytical equipment at Laboratory Testing Inc., Philadelphia.
Continue readingThe Bright World of Metals: Four trade fairs in Düsseldorf
“The Bright World of Metals” trade fair quartet in Düsseldorf, Germany, closed to extremely positive results, with 78,000 visitors from more than 120 countries.
Continue readingNovel material significantly improves traditional aerogel properties
A new polyimide aerogel developed at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, represents a revolutionary advance over the fragile silica aerogels currently on the market.
Continue readingATI achieves PQ titanium product and process qualification
Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, has achieved qualification for its premium-titanium products for jet engine rotating parts made of premium-quality titanium sponge from ATI’s facility in Rowley, Utah.
Continue readingCarpenter agrees to supply powder metallurgy superalloys to Pratt & Whitney
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., reports that operations will begin soon at its new superalloy powder facility in Alabama as part of a multi-level agreement with United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney Division.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft supplies two universal batch quench furnaces to Paulo Products
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., has supplied two new Universal Batch Quench furnaces to Paulo Products Co., a commercial heat treater headquartered in St. Louis, to be installed at its Kansas City Division.
Continue readingCarpenter agrees to supply powder metallurgy superalloys to Pratt & Whitney
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., reports that operations will begin soon at its new superalloy powder facility in Alabama as part of a multi-level agreement with United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney Division.
Continue readingRocketdyne selects Seco-Warwick box furnace for heat treating and brazing rocket parts
Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that Aerojet Rocketdyne has updated its facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., with the turnkey installation of a Seco-Warwick custom-engineered box furnace for brazing and heat-treating rocket parts and assemblies.
Continue readingBodycote opens new heat treatment plant in Poland
Bodycote, South Windsor, Conn., recently opened a new heat treatment site in Wroclaw, Poland, as part of its expansion strategy in Eastern Europe.
Continue readingReport on ITSC 2015 in Long Beach
The 2015 International Thermal Spray Conference joined AeroMat and IMS for the first-ever combined mega-event in Long Beach, Calif.
Continue readingArcam invests in third plasma atomization reactor for titanium powder
Arcam AB, Sweden, announces that a third plasma titanium atomization reactor at its powder manufacturing subsidiary AP&C in Montreal is now operational.
Continue readingLPW Technology and Metalysis partner to advance spherical tantalum and tungsten powders
LPW Technology Inc., Pittsburgh, and Metalysis, U.K., have formed a collaboration with the goal of developing an alternative supply chain for clean, spherical tantalum and tungsten powders for critical applications.
Continue readingOutokumpu now categorizes its stainless steels by properties instead of chemistry
Outokumpu Oy, Finland, has developed a way to categorize its wide range of stainless steel products by arranging them according to strength, hardness, machinability, heat resistance, and corrosion resistance.
Continue readingNASA awards Boeing first commercial human spaceflight mission
NASA, Houston, has issued a task order as part of Boeing’s $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to include the company’s first-ever service flight to the International Space Station.
Continue readingConferences convene for successful Mega Show event
Aerospace and thermal spray professionals gathered for aerospace coating and materials information.
Continue reading3D-Printed Habitat Challenge
NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3D printed habitat for deep space exploration.
Continue readingMagnesium syntactic foam metal matrix composite floats on water
Researchers from Deep Springs Technology, Toledo, Ohio, and New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering have reportedly demonstrated a magnesium syntactic foam metal matrix composite with density so low that it can float on water.
Continue readingLaser shock peening improves fatigue and durability of aircraft structures
The University of Cincinnati reports that its researchers and Airbus engineers have developed a laser shock peening technology in which several lasers simultaneously focus beams of infrared light on sections of aluminum, titanium, or nickel-base superalloy components.
Continue readingIpsen TurboTreater heat treats castings for aerospace applications
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a horizontal TurboTreater vacuum furnace with two-bar gas quenching to a metal-casting company in Texas.
Continue readingAmetek acquires Global Tubes for its high-precision small-diameter tubing
Ametek Inc., Berwyn, Pa., has acquired Global Tubes, a leading manufacturer of high precision, small diameter metal tubing, for approximately $200 million.
Continue readingLinde launches compact hydrogen generators with high natural-gas conversion rate
The Linde Group, Holly Springs, Ga., launches its Hydroprime plant line of innovative, cost effective compact hydrogen generators based on proven steam methane reforming technology.
Continue readingIpsen shaft-sealing mechanism enables placing motor outside the vacuum chamber
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., was recently awarded a U.S. patent for the development of a new shaft-sealing mechanism.
Continue readingNASA Langley recognized for advancing helicopter research
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., on May 8 to participate in a ceremony recognizing Langley’s decades of contributions to improving helicopters and other vertical flight aircraft.
Continue readingTechnique creates stronger carbon nanotube films
Researchers developed an inexpensive technique called “microcombing” to align carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be used to create large, pure CNT films that are stronger than previous films.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres adds large advanced vacuum furnace to California facility
Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA), Fontana, has added a large furnace to its facility equipment.
Continue readingLake City Heat Treating acquires VFS vacuum furnace
Lake City Heat Treating Corp., Warsaw, Ind., has acquired a VFS Model HIQ3836-6 furnace that can achieve vacuums of 10-6 torr and process temperatures up to 2400°F with a workload size up to 24 x 24 x 36 in.
Continue readingComposite curing oven to support aerospace research at University of South Carolina
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., has shipped a composite curing batch oven to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research at the University of South Carolina.
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