AK Steel Corp., ATI Flat Rolled Products, North American Stainless, and Outokumpu Stainless USA, the four principal U.S. producers of stainless steel sheet and strip, have filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions charging that unfairly traded imports of stainless steel sheet and strip from the People’s Republic of China are causing material injury to the domestic industry.
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Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to Philadelphia, to provides better access to transportation, customer markets, world-class universities, and increased visibility with broader talent pools. The move positions Carpenter’s head office in a major metropolitan market without incurring any material increased expenses.
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Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, has added dedicated capacity in its Process Development Centers to produce prototype iterations faster for medical device OEMs, enabling engineers to complete functional or verification testing on metallic-based prototypes within a short lead time.
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Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, has added dedicated capacity in its Process Development Centers to produce prototype iterations faster for medical device OEMs, enabling engineers to complete functional or verification testing on metallic-based prototypes within a short lead time.
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Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, has added dedicated capacity in its Process Development Centers to produce prototype iterations faster for medical device OEMs, enabling engineers to complete functional or verification testing on metallic-based prototypes within a short lead time.
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Precision Coating Co. Inc., Boston, offers a range of carbide coatings, including tungsten carbide/cobalt, tungsten carbide/nickel-chromium, chromium carbide/nickel-chromium, and tungsten carbide/cobalt/chromium.
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Metalysis, England, has collaborated with TWI, also of England, to demonstrate the feasibility of its tantalum powder in metal additive layer manufacturing for biomedical applications such as patient-specific hip joints.
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Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy Inc., Germany, introduces the Xradia Versa X-ray 500-series of 3D X-ray microscopes with FPX flat panel extension, which enhances imaging flexibility and creates workflow efficiencies.
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The School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, South Korea, and several other South Korean research centers, announce that their researchers have developed a magnesium-base orthopedic implant that safely biodegrades and promotes bone growth.
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ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that the new principal editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (Met Trans) family of journals will be Dr. Tresa M. Pollock, an internationally recognized leader in the science and technology of advanced structural alloys.
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Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, introduces Noble SynchroFlash, a new machining capability that synchronizes Swiss turning & milling and laser machining into a single highly efficient and cost-effective operation for producing medical devices of exotic materials.
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SMST recently teamed up with a small international organization of leading players in the SMA actuation field known as CASMART (Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology).
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The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4 g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.
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Brewer Science, Rolla, Mo., has signed a new cooperative agreement at Missouri State University’s Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC) for developing nanotechnology applications to protect the U.S. military.
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Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.
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Acxys Technologies, France, has introduced its UL-Coat (ULC) module, which injects a precursor into plasma generated by its ULS plasma spot module, thus enabling deposition of thin films of SiOx in open air.
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Extracellular matrix is the material that gives tissues like skin, cartilage, or tendon their strength and stretch. It’s been hard to make well in the lab, but scientists report new success.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, have reportedly developed DentaPlas, an antimicrobial coating for dental implants that consists of three layers, with two plasma polymer layers surrounding a center layer of silver nanoparticles.
Continue readingBodycote, England, is expanding its high pressure Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) capability with the addition of a new mid-range vessel to increase its volume capacity.
Continue readingShimadzu Scientific Instruments, Japan, announces the release of its new Hyper Vision HPV-X2 high-speed video camera that features ultra-high-speed recording at ten million frames-per-second.
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Bodycote, England, announces that it has expanded capacity for specialty stainless steel processes (S3P) at its facility in London, Ohio, and is building a new S3P facility in North Carolina that is to open in 2016.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, report that researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology that enables complex self-folding structures.
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Lumenous Device Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed Gloss nitinol wire, which eliminates or reduces the need for mechanical polishing and electropolishing, thereby streamlining the manufacturing process.
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Saarland University, Germany, reports that its engineers have developed a bionic hand that is based on bundled nitinol wires activated by electricity.
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The University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Kiel, Germany, report that their research team has developed a new shape memory alloy so tough it returns to its original shape even after being bent and heated over ten million times.
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Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y., announces that it has been chosen to lead a consortium of universities and corporations in establishing a New York State Center for advanced technology in additive manufacturing and functional printing.
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Grand View Research Inc., San Francisco, has published a thermal spray coating market analysis that predicts the market is expected to reach $12.29 billion by the year 2022.
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Jeol USA, Peabody, Mass., introduces the new JSM-7200F FE SEM with ultrahigh spatial resolution of 1.6 nm at 1.0 kV, and high probe current of 300 nA.
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Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., has launched a new semiconductor technology developed specifically to meet the ultralow-power requirements of the next generation of connected devices.
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FlexTech Alliance, San Jose, Calif., announces that the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded it $75 million over five years in a Cooperative Agreement to establish and manage a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE MII).
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