NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.
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Buildings are designed to sway and deform without collapsing in response to earthquake shaking.
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Commercial Metals Co., Irving, Texas, announces that it has begun construction of an electric-arc-furnace steel micromill in Durant, Okla., to produce long products by its continuous-continuous manufacturing process in which steel is melted, cast, and rolled from a single uninterrupted strand.
Continue readingSSAB, Stockholm, introduces five steel product families tailored for production processes and maximized end-product performance: SSAB Domex, SSAB Boron, SSAB Form, SSAB Laser Plus, and SSAB Weathering.
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Outokumpu Oy, Finland, has been supplying stainless steel for La Sagrada Família (The Holy Family) basilica since 2013 as rebar, bar, machined components, and plasma-cut plate products.
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On November 19, 2015, Novelis was honored with an ASM Historical Landmark at its facility in Kingston, Ontario.
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Purdue University is collaborating with General Motors to develop a new type of energy-absorbing material that might be 3D printed and that could have an impact in areas ranging from earthquake engineering to safer football helmets.
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The Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio, announces that it is investing approximately $30 million in a new Welding Technology Center on its campus in Euclid, Ohio.
Continue readingResearchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Tokyo have developed a new “zippered tube” configuration that makes paper structures stiff enough to hold weight yet able to fold flat for easy shipping and storage.
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Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces that Nucor-Yamato Steel Co., a joint venture between Nucor and Yamato Kogyo Co. Ltd., is installing a $75 million quench and self-tempering process system for its 1.4 million tons of Mill 2 rolling capacity in Blytheville, Arkansas.
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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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ThyssenKrupp, Germany, has installed stainless steel for the spire of the tower, and the fastest elevators in North and South America at One World Trade Center in New York.
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SSAB, Stockholm, has launched Strenx, a new high-strength structural steel product brand that includes Optim, Weldox, and Domex steels that are well-known trademarks of SSAB and the former Ruukki.
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Wall Colmonoy, Madison Heights, Mich., offers a spring session of Modern Furnace Brazing School on May 5-7 at the Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Brazing Engineering Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that the company will relocate its corporate headquarters to the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s lower Hill District.
Continue readingOver 40 representatives from the materials data community gathered for a Town Hall Meeting during MS&T14 to assess strategic data initiatives and their potential impact on infrastructure development. The interactive event, organized by representatives from NIST and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, opened with a series of presentations (linked below) and concluded with a panel-led question-and-answer session.
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A research team by the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed Cloud Arch, an innovative, ultra-light architecture that will revolutionize the way large open public spaces are built.
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ChromX 9000 concrete rebar provides five times the corrosion resistance of carbon steel
Continue readingInsulation for homes of the future may be harvested from fields of kenaf, an alternative to fiberglass
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Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has entered into an agreement to purchase all the equity of Gallatin Steel Company for a cash purchase price of approximately $770 million.
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SSAB, Stockholm, Sweden, announces that Rautaruukki became part of SSAB on July 29, 2014.
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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, Germany, is investing $121 million to modernize continuous caster 1 in Duisburg-Beeckerwerth to improve slab quality and widen the product range.
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The Engineering Structures Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland, has reportedly developed an iron-based shape memory alloy for reinforcing concrete that has a lower melting point and is lower in cost than nickel-titanium SMAs.
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MMFX Steel Corp. of America, Irvine, Calif., has been named as a finalist for American Metal Market’s annual Awards for Steel Excellence for its high-strength reinforcing steel, ChromX 4100.
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Abakan Inc., Miami, announces that its majority-owned subsidiary MesoCoat Inc., Euclid, Ohio, has received a Phase One SBIR Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a six month project to develop CermaClad high-speed large-area metal cladding technology for bridges and other structures.
Continue readingA team of researchers from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Qatar University has won a $779,000 grant based on shape memory alloy reinforcements for deteriorating reinforced-concrete structures such as bridges.
Continue readingASM International’s Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee recently conducted a survey of several hundred ASM members to gain feedback on technologies that members believe will have the most impact on the future of materials science and engineering.
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Aleris, Cleveland, Ohio, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nichols Aluminum, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quanex Building Products Corp.
Continue readingAssa Abloy group brands Frameworks, Graham Wood Doors, and Maiman Wood Doors, New Haven, Conn., teamed up to launch Serenity, the first wood door and aluminum frame sound-rated door opening solution.
Continue readingThe world’s largest airship, the Skyship 600, made its way through the clouds on a month long journey across the U.S.
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