Aerospace and Defense Archives - Page 28 of 30

Metco leaves the Sulzer Group, joins the Oerlikon Group.

Oerlikon Group, Switzerland, announces the successful closing of the transaction to acquire Metco from Sulzer AG ahead of schedule.

RTI acquires Dynamet for its advanced titanium powder metal technology

RTI International Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, has acquired Dynamet Technology Inc., an industry innovator in titanium powder metallurgy and a supplier of near-net shape titanium and titanium alloy preforms and components to commercial aerospace, defense, biomedical and industrial customers.

Al-Fe Wadsworth receives Nadcap accreditation for glycol quenching

Al-Fe Heat Treating, Fort Wayne, Ind., has added glycol quenching to its list of Nadcap-accredited aluminum heat treat services at its plant in Wadsworth, Ohio.

Selective laser melting to produce aerospace components

Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology IPT, Germany, is developing Selective Laser Melting technology to build aerospace components via additive manufacturing.

Alcoa to build $100 million superalloy plant in La Porte

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art, $100 million, 320,000-square-foot facility in La Porte, Indiana, where it will produce nickel-base superalloy jet engine parts.

Ipsen ships 15 vacuum furnaces for aerospace, automotive, and energy industries

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., has recently shipped more than 15 vacuum furnaces to customers around the world for a diverse range of applications and industries.

Element Materials lab expands Nadcap accreditation for testing aluminum

Element Materials Technology’s laboratory in Daleville, Ind., has significantly expanded the scope of its Nadcap accreditation for aluminum testing in the aerospace sector.

Seco-Warwick supplies three vacuum furnaces to Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas

Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas has purchased three of its vacuum furnaces for vacuum heat treatment of aircraft components.

ASM Fellow Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi elected Fellow of Wisconsin Academy of Sciences

Pradeep Rohatgi, Fellow of ASM International and Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, has been elected Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters.

Lucifer delivers single-chamber bench furnace for power-generation parts

Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., recently delivered a single chamber bench model box furnace to Power Plant Services, an ISO 9001certified provider of parts and repairs for the power generation and steel mill industries.

Alcoa to supply aluminum sheet for aircraft fuselages to Spirit AeroSystems

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a long-term agreement to supply aluminum sheet to Spirit AeroSystems Inc. in a contract valued at approximately $290 million over five years.

ExOne qualifies nickel-base Alloy 625 for 3D printing of industrial parts

The ExOne Co., N. Huntingdon, Pa., announces that its ExOne Material Applications Laboratory (ExMal) has qualified Inconel alloy 625 for 3D printing industrial applications at more than 99% density, utilizing its binder jetting technology.

Zimmer to acquire Biomet in transaction valued at $13.35 billion

Zimmer Holdings Inc. and Biomet Inc., both of Warsaw, Ind., have approved a definitive agreement under which Zimmer will acquire Biomet in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $13.35 billion, including the assumption of net debt.

Nanoindentation technique reveals phase transformation in magnetic shape memory alloys

Researchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, have examined stress-induced martensitic phase transformations in magnetic shape memory alloys via in-situ nanoindentation techniques.

Ipsen vertical vacuum furnace heat treats flowformed aerospace products

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that PMF Industries in Pennsylvania selected Ipsen to manufacture a vertical MetalMaster vacuum heat treatment system.

Duplex stainless steel yacht is lighter than aluminum

Sandvik Materials Technology, Sweden, has built a prototype stainless steel yacht manufactured entirely of Sandvik SAF 2507 duplex stainless steel.

Materion to partner with AristoCast for AlBeCast investment castings

Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites, a Materion Corporation business, Elmore, Ohio, announces that it has qualified and entered into a strategic manufacturing and marketing partnership with Aristo Cast Inc.

Ultralight plane solely powered by the sun

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft will be the first to travel around the world entirely without fuel in 2015 and was recently unveiled in Payerne, Switzerland.

Vac Aero commissions vacuum furnace for aerospace manufacturer

Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, has commissioned a high-vacuum production-scale, 2-bar VAH3436 horizontal vacuum furnace with work zone dimensions of 24-in. wide x 24-in. high x 36-in. deep.

Constellium to build two casthouses to triple production of Airware aluminum

Constellium, Paris, plans to build two new casthouses for its Airware aerospace aluminum products at its plant in Issoire, France.

Suspension plasma spray with ceramic nanoparticles may triple service life of aircraft engines

Researchers at University West in Sweden have developed a technology in which ceramic nanoparticles are suspended in a liquid and then plasma-sprayed.

James Webb space telescope relies on beryllium mirrors

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., is building the James Webb space telescope, whose unique beryllium mirror system will enable it to examine the earliest times of the universe when launched in 2018.

Lockheed Martin opens materials and thermal sciences R&D lab in Palo Alto

The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, has opened an Advanced Materials & Thermal Sciences Center for research and development.

QuesTek to serve as research partner for lightweight materials innovation institute

QuesTek Innovations, Evanston, Ill., announces that it has been selected as a research partner by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation (LM3I) solicitation.

Ambrell induction heating equipment enables fast repeatable heating for aerospace manufacturers

Ambrell, an Ameritherm Company, Scottsville, N.Y., designs fast, repeatable, controllable, noncontact heating equipment with a minimal footprint that makes it an ideal solution for aerospace manufacturers.

Aviation seating to be made of magnesium for the first time

Magnesium Elektron, England, announces the first use of its proprietary Elektro 43 alloy in aviation seating.

Tecnalia achieves NadCap accreditation for testing and surface treatments

Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain, has received Nadcap accreditation, which recognizes the company´s technical competence as a testing laboratory for control of surface treatment baths and also as testing on metal materials – mechanical, metallography and corrosion testing – in the aeronautical sector.