FormFactor, Livermore, Calif, launched the TESLA300 high-power semiconductor probing system designed specifically for IGBT and power MOSFET device measurements on 300mm wafers.
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Saint-Gobain, Worcester, Mass., offers the Master Jet Auto IV thermal flame spray gun, flame spray technology with a proprietary cooling system that can achieve low heat input that is crucial to avoid heat build-up and distortions in metalized film coatings.
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Constellium, Paris, will supply aluminum structural components for the recently introduced all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning that is expected to be available Spring 2022.
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According to the latest report by Imarc Group, Sheridan, WY, the global thermal spray coating market exhibited moderate growth during 2015-2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 7% during 2021-2026.
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The most important function of alloying elements in heat treatable steels is to increase hardenability, whether for quench and tempering or sinter hardening. Adding copper increases both hardness and tensile strength in the sintered condition.
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Can-Eng Furnaces International, Niagara, N.Y., has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture two 50,000 lb/hr. car bottom furnaces for one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world.
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National University of Science and Technology, Russia, has developed a technology for producing a unique heat-resistant aluminum alloy with improved durability in cooperation with their colleagues from the Siberian Federal University and the Research and Production Centre of Magnetic Hydrodynamics (Krasnoyarsk).
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Scientists at Fraunhofer IWS Dresden, Germany, have developed a cost-effective HICLAD process to maximize corrosion and wear protection that also reduces particulate emissions, important as brake discs are moving into focus as part of current green-energy discussions.
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Incoming Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, said U.S. sanctions against China’s Huawei Technologies Co. may help alleviate a global shortfall in semiconductor supply.
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The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), England, helped develop a new system using augmented reality (AR) technology to streamline how faults are detected and repaired at one of the UK’s busiest railway stations.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, were able to isolate and image the structure and composition of the metallic line defect in a perovskite crystal BaSnO3.
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Huntkey, Shenzhen, China, a leading provider of power solutions, has completed a customized car air purifier project for its business partner.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Silicon Valley, Calif.) and Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.
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Trace amounts of graphene could create a decades-long protective barrier against oxygen corrosion for cars, aircrafts, and ships–but evaluating its effectiveness has been a challenge, until now. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists report a possible solution in the latest issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
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A collaboration among researchers at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.), the University of Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia), the Advanced Photon Source, (Lemont, Ill.), and Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D (Ann Arbor, Mich.), examined operating limits and failure mechanisms in a family of solid-state batteries based on thiophosphate materials.
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Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo, acquires global leader VLC Photonics S.L., Valencia, Spain, adding photonic integration engineering, design, and test to its portfolio of services.
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Researchers at Penn State, University Park, Pa., published a new paper in ACS Nano integrating photodetectors with durable Gorilla glass, the material used for smart phone screens manufactured by Corning Incorporated.
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Cleveland Cliffs Inc. announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ArcelorMittal S.A., in which Cleveland-Cliffs will acquire substantially all of the operations of ArcelorMittal USA LLC and its subsidiaries for approximately $1.4 billion.
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Gary Cola, Flash Steelworks, Washington, Mich., presented a discussion of flash processing of steel at the ASM International MS&T19 conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Engineers from the Nanosteel Company Inc., Providence, reported on the extensive development of advanced high strength steel (AHSS) at the ASM International MS&T19 conference in Portland, Oregon.
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The ExOne Company, North Huntingdon, Pa., announces that the nickel-based alloy Inconel 718 has been certified as Third-Party Qualified, the company’s highest designation of material readiness for its metal 3D printers.
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An aspirating-type volumetric feeder is based on a continuous circumferential groove in a powder-feed wheel that fills with powder by gravity.
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Nitrex Heat Treating Services, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, announces a new plant investment aimed at expanding its commercial heat treat facility located in Aurora, just west of Chicago.
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Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it is establishing an Atmosphere Technology Excellence Center in Kleve, Germany, and a Vacuum Technology Excellence Center near Rockford, Illinois, in response to customer demand for expanded technical services, identical metallurgical outcomes worldwide, and solutions for processing newly developed materials.
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Materion Corp., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, announces that it has completed the acquisition of Optics Balzers AG, creating an optical thin film coating solutions provider with a highly complementary geographic, product, and end-market portfolio.
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Instron, Norwood, Mass., introduces AverEdge32, its latest innovation for measuring transverse sheet metal strain with high accuracy.
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GKN Powder Metallurgy, Bonn, is validating the use of DP 600 dual-phase steel on the EOS M300-4 additive manufacturing platform as the Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing (IDAM) project reaches the halfway stage.
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Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, Mass., and Maxim Integrated Products Inc., San Jose, Calif., announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which ADI will acquire Maxim in an all-stock transaction that values the combined enterprise at over $68 billion.
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Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces an advancement in capability for the company’s LENS directed energy deposition systems relative to additive manufacturing and repair of aluminum alloys.
Continue readingStratasys, Eden Prairie, Minn., announces that BAE Systems has added a fourth Stratasys F900 3D printer to its manufacturing site in Samlesbury, England, in a continued effort to reduce costs and improve production agility.
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