The basic DHT steel has a microstructure consisting of ferrite and pearlite, and the fatigue strength of such steels is not sufficiently high to meet the specifications for most highly stressed automotive parts.

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has recently been contracted to design and commission a 6600 pounds-per-hour continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system for Metex Heat Treating of Brampton, Ontario.

The BMW Group, Munich, has officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus, which brings together production of prototype and series parts under one roof, along with research into new 3D printing technologies, and associate training for the global rollout of tool-less production.

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has been recognized as a General Motors Supplier of the Year, an honor achieved by less than one percent of GM’s suppliers, and Nucor remains the only electric arc furnace steelmaker to do so.

SSAB, Stockholm, announces that Shape Corporation, Grand Haven, Michigan, has won the 2019 Swedish Steel Prize “for the groundbreaking use of martensitic steel in a 3D-formed tube for automotive roof rail applications.”

The thermal energy of forged components can be effectively used to achieve microstructure with mechanical properties equal to or better than those achievable with traditional reheat quenching and tempering, annealing, and normalizing processes.

APWorks GmbH, Germany, announces that the sophisticated exhaust tailpipe in the Bugatti Chiron Pure Sport is additively manufactured of titanium at APWorks.

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from a research organization for the supply of a rapid heating furnace to be used for product development of lightweight hot-stamped and formed aluminum automotive components.

Engineers from Wayne State University and Ford Motor Co. presented “Low-Temperature Austempering of Ductile Cast Iron,” at the ASM International Heat Treat 2019 conference in Detroit.

Engineers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Wash., discussed a friction stir welding technique known as Friction Stir Interlocking in a presentation at MS&T 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, has completed construction of a new brazing and assembly room.

EFD Induction Group, Norway, announces that a world-leading automotive supplier has bought a Sinac induction heating system for steel pump housing production.