Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped an indirect gas fired heavy duty walk-in oven for heat treating materials used in the production of vehicle batteries.
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Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems partners with heat treating company in Mexico
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, St. Marys, Pa., announces that it has formed a partnership with Humberto Bastidas from Thermal Technic Furnace Solutions in Mexico. Current and future customers can now experience the benefit of having a local Mexico resident who speaks Spanish and prides himself on providing the best possible customer service.
Mr. Bastidas has many years of experience in the heat treating field and is well acquainted with the Mexican marketplace. In addition to the Mexico location, the Gasbarre team will be working with Mr. Bastidas and his team to launch a Spanish version of Gasbarre.com in the coming weeks, and will assist with other marketing efforts in that region.
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems has been designing, manufacturing, and servicing a full line of industrial thermal processing equipment for over 40 years. Gasbarre specializes in Temper, Tip Up, Mesh Belt, Nitriding, Box, Car Bottom, Pit, and Vacuum Furnaces. It also offers a full line of replacement parts and auxiliary equipment, such as atmosphere generators, washers, quench tanks, and charge cars. Gasbarre also custom designs and manufactures thermal processing equipment to meet specific needs. The company continues to service and support Sinterite brand equipment.
Novelis invests $36 million to expand closed-loop automotive aluminum scrap recycling
Novelis Inc., Atlanta, has broken ground on a $36 million investment to expand and upgrade recycling capacity at its facility in Greensboro, Georgia.
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Duplex hardening of M-50 and M50NiL provides a hard, wear-resistant surface that exhibits high damage tolerance and damage resistance to hard-particle contamination.
Continue readingUnited States Steel invests $700 million in joint venture with Big River Steel
United States Steel, Pittsburgh, announces that it has formed a joint venture partnership agreement under which it has taken the first step toward acquiring Big River Steel through the purchase of a 49.9% ownership interest at a purchase price of approximately $700 million in cash, with a call option to acquire the remaining 50.1% within the next four years.
Continue readingCree to invest one billion dollars to build silicon carbide plant in upstate New York
Electronics manufacturer Cree Inc., Durham, N.C., announces plans to establish the world’s largest silicon carbide fabrication facility in upstate New York, just outside the city of Utica.
Continue readingNucor Steel invests $40 million in continuous casting machine for Kankakee plant
Nucor Steel, Charlotte, N.C., is upgrading its Kankakee Chicago region steel bar mill by investing $40 million in a new state-of-the-art continuous casting machine and other improvements.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Fluidized-bed powder feeders
In fluidized-bed powder feeders, a bed of powder is continuously agitated by a fluidizing gas, in this case the carrier gas.
Continue readingOne-Minute Mentor: Special Purpose Through-Hardening Bearing Steels
Through-hardening bearing steels from the ASTM A295 and A485 families that are given a typical heat treatment, operate well up to the 120–135 °C (250–275 °F) service range.
Continue readingCan-Eng Furnaces awarded contract for a rapid heating furnace for aluminum components
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 for lightweight hot-stamped and formed aluminum automotive product development.
Continue readingParticles melted in laser beam form metallurgical bond with cast iron brake disks
Engineers from Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and RWTH Aachen University, both of Germany, report that they have developed a laser deposition technology known as Extreme High-Speed Laser Material Deposition (EHLA), which can provide brake disks with improved protection against wear and corrosion.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Volumetric Powder Feeders
Volumetric powder feeders are based on a positive-displacement mechanism to deliver packets of powder; these mechanisms include screws and slotted, spoked, or drilled wheels.
Continue readingNorthern Minerals signs rare earths supply agreement with Thyssenkrupp
Northern Minerals Ltd., Australia, announces that it has signed a rare earths supply agreement with Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Materials Trading for 100% offtake from the Western Australia Browns Range pilot plant, which has already begun producing heavy rare earth carbonates.
Continue readingCree to invest $1 billion to grow its Wolfspeed silicon carbide and GaN-on-SiC business
Cree Inc., Durham, N.C., announces plans for a $1 billion investment to its headquarters in Durham to expand the company’s silicon carbide materials capabilities and wafer fabrication capacity.
Continue readingLindberg hot stamping furnace features one low-heat and three high-heat stacked chambers
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated four chamber hot-stamping furnace to the Gestamp Research and Development facility located in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Continue readingSeco Vacuum provides high-volume nitrocarburizing furnaces for auto supplier
Seco Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., announces an order for a high-volume nitrocarburizing line of furnaces serving a major carmaker through a tier-one supplier.
Continue readingQuaker Chemical and Houghton International combine to form new industrial fluids company
Quaker Chemical Corp., Conshohocken, Pa., and Houghton International, Valley Forge, Pa., have combined to create Quaker Houghton, a global leader in industrial process fluids to the primary metals and metalworking markets.
Continue readingSteel Dynamics to invest $1.9 billion to build EAF flat roll steel mill in Texas
Steel Dynamics Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., announces that it has selected Sinton, Texas, as the site for its new state-of-the-art, electric-arc-furnace flat roll steel mill, with construction to begin in early 2020.
Continue readingGlobalFoundries, Soitec sign supply agreements for 300-mm wafers to meet market demand
GlobalFoundries, Santa Clara, Calif., and Soitec, France, have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300-mm silicon-on-insulator wafers to secure the high-volume supply needed to meet the growing demand for its differentiated radio-frequency-silicon-on-insulator, fully-depleted-silicon-on-insulator, and silicon photonics technology platforms.
Continue readingDenso and Toyota to establish a Joint Venture for R&D of in-vehicle semiconductors
Denso Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., both of Japan, have agreed to establish a Joint Venture for research and advanced development of next-generation, in-vehicle semiconductors, and they aim to establish the new company by April 2020.
Continue readingMS&T 2019 Symposium: Advanced High Strength Steels / From Design to End Users
This Symposium will focus on recent achievements in Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) development, from innovations in steel production and post-processing, to forming parts through various approaches and end-use applications.
Continue readingHeat Treat 2019 paper abstract: High Pressure Gas Quenching Evolution
This presentation from ECM USA, Pleasant Prairie, Wis., is a report on gas quenching technology, which has been involved in heat treating for years and has been considered by many heat treaters to be limited to single-chamber furnaces.
Continue readingAudi joins SEMI to advance automotive electronics and harmonize technologies
SEMI, Milpitas, Calif., the global electronics industry association, announces that Audi AG, a leading German manufacturer of luxury vehicles, has become the first automotive OEM to join SEMI.
Continue readingNew Olympus digital microscope analyzes samples with 20 to 7000X magnification range
Olympus Corp., Tokyo, announces the global launch of the DSX1000 digital microscope with guaranteed high- and low-magnification accuracy and precision in a single instrument, for industries such as electronics, metals, semiconductors, automotive, aerospace, and medical devices.
Continue readingMaterion QMet 300 copper-chromium-silver strip alloy designed for high current
Materion Corp.,. Mayfield Heights, Ohio, introduces QMet 300 alloy, a high-performance strip alloy that offers a combination of high conductivity, strength, and formability to meet needs in the consumer electronics and automotive markets.
Continue readingRussian scientists dope aluminum with nickel and lanthanum to raise strength and ductility
Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS), Russia, report that they have found a simple and efficient way of strengthening aluminum-based composite materials.
Continue readingComposite steel foam stops 50-caliber rounds as well as solid steel at half the weight
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, announces that its researchers have demonstrated that a steel composite metal foam can stop armor-piercing 50-caliber rounds as well as conventional steel armor, even though it weighs less than half as much.
Continue readingNucor wins GM Supplier of the Year Award, and announces bar mill investment
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., was recognized as a General Motors Supplier of the Year for Non-Fabricated Steel at the automotive company’s 27th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held on May 15 in Detroit.
Continue readingCan-Eng Furnaces to design heat treating system for thin-wall aluminum die castings
Can-Eng Furnaces, Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been chosen to design and commission a high-capacity heat-treatment system for a Tier 1 global automotive manufacturing company.
Continue readingUnited States Steel to invest a billion dollars in new plant
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it will invest more than $1 billion to construct a new sustainable endless casting and rolling facility at its Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pa., and a cogeneration facility at its Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., both part of the company’s Mon Valley Works.
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