Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif., announce that their researchers have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects of graphene, the form of carbon that is one of the world’s strongest materials.
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Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that all four of its facilities have recently obtained certifications to AS9100 Revision D and ISO9001:2015, the most demanding international standards required of suppliers to the aviation, space, defense, and medical industries.
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Instron has announced plans to host a Biomedical Open House event September 20 at its Norwood, Mass. headquarters. The event will present the company’s latest advancements in static, dynamic, and impact testing for the biomedical field, including live demonstrations on how to improve efficiency in the lab, ways to expand capabilities, and how to deliver more accurate and reliable test results.
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Integer Holdings Corp., Frisco, Texas, has completed the previously announced sale of its Advanced Surgical and Orthopedics (AS&O) product lines to MedPlast LLC for $600 million in cash.
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Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., announces that its engineers have developed a non-inclusion-based process for shape memory alloy fatigue durability enhancement.
Continue readingResearchers from Cerenovus, Ireland, report that the EMboTrap and the EmboTrap II, Nitinol mechanical thrombectomy (MT) devices, have been launched in Europe with great success and will soon be launched in the United States.
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Researchers from Boston Scientific report that they joined with other researchers to evaluate micro-cleanliness and rotary bend fatigue in a sampling of current and future generation Nitinol wire, including VAR and VIM products from multiple suppliers.
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XJet Ltd., Israel, announces that it has received the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for its NanoParticle Jetting (NPJ) technology for metal and ceramic additive manufacturing.
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United Process Controls, Waukee, Wis., reports that medical implants manufacturer Orchid Orthopedics, Memphis, Tenn., has modernized three Ipsen VFS vacuum furnaces with process control upgrades from United Process Controls (UPC).
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The article describes metallurgical phenomena in 3D printing/additive manufacturing of metal and alloy products and components.
Continue readingSolar Manufacturing, Souderton, Pa., recently shipped a large horizontal front-loading vacuum furnace to a titanium manufacturer and fabricator located in the Midwest region of the United States.
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Burloak Technologies, a division of Samuel, Son & Co., Dundas, Ontario, is investing a total of $81.5 million in a new Additive Manufacturing Technology Center in Oakville, Ontario.
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Silverchair Information Systems, Charlottesville, Va., announces a partnership with ASM International, Cleveland, to develop a unified hosting solution for ASM’s authoritative materials information resources.
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Lake City Heat Treating, Warsaw, Ind., announces the construction of a 6000 square foot addition to its facility in Warsaw to support its continued growth in production and to expand its heat treating capabilities.
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Bruker, Billerica, Mass., has acquired Anasys Instruments Corp., a privately held company that develops and manufactures nanoscale infrared spectroscopy and thermal measurement instruments.
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Researchers from three universities in Germany have reportedly demonstrated a new laser-based source of x-rays that are many times brighter than conventional x-rays, and thus enable far more detailed structural analyses.
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Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, announces that it can now produce additively manufactured, 3D-printed parts from alloys such as titanium, stainless steel, and cobalt chromium.
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ANV Laser, Israel, introduces its noncontact Af tester (NCAT), a novel bent and free-recovery device that can determine the temperatures of Start and Finish Af (martensite-to-austenite transformation) for each of several NiTi devices of different shapes at the same time.
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Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., has acquired G&S Titanium, a company specializing in titanium and specialty alloy wire and bar drawing.
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Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Midwest Thermal-Vac recently purchased a Titan vacuum furnace with 12-bar gas quenching for processing parts that need to comply with Nadcap and medical industry requirements such as MedAccred.
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Linde LLC, Bridgewater, N.J., announces three new technologies to improve the quality of metal powders: Incoming Quality, 3D Process Quality, and Finish Quality.
Continue readingOerlikon Group, Switzerland, announces that its Oerlikon Balzers division in Liechtenstein has acquired Sucotec AG, a Swiss manufacturer that specializes in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment for the tools industry.
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Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China report that they have cured some forms of blindness by removing defective rods and cones in the retina of mice and replacing them with artificial rods and cones made of gold and titanium nanowires.
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Swansea University, Wales, announces that is has received $1.4 million funding for a five-year project to develop 3D X-ray imaging technology that could replace the current requirement for mechanical testing of critical parts.
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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, Calif., are using X-ray light to observe and understand how the process of making metal parts using 3D printing can leave flaws in the finished product.
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, Calif., are using x-ray light to observe and understand how the process of making metal parts using 3D printing can leave flaws in the finished product.
The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, announces that its researchers used an electrochemical etching process to create a nanotextured surface that kills bacteria on a common stainless steel alloy.
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Thermo Scientific, Madison, Wis., introduces the Genesys family of automated, robust UV-Visible spectrophotometers, which are accessible, network-ready, and designed to meet expectations for advanced technology in a compact package.
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SAE International, Warrendale, Pa., announces that technical standard AMS2750 – Pyrometry, has received complete recognition by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and it has been added to its list of recognized consensus standards database, List #47.
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Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped 15 furnaces to eight states in the United States, as well as Asia and Europe, to support customers in the additive manufacturing, aerospace, commercial heat treating, medical, and metal injection molding industries.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., reports that its scientists have developed a method for making a renewable, leathery shape-memory material that is coated with a thin layer of silver nanoparticles to activate electrical conductivity.
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