Nanosteel Corp., Providence, announces the spinout of its additive manufacturing business unit into a new corporation named Formetrix.
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Specialty Steel Works invests in advanced process technologies at its Indiana bar plant
Specialty Steel Works Inc., Hammond, Ind., announces a multimillion dollar investment in new high-performance equipment and infrastructure at its Niagara LaSalle Corporation Cold Finish Steel facility in Hammond.
Continue readingWieland Metals $25 million expansion to double its U.S. metal tube production
Wieland Metals Inc., Wheeling, Ill., recently announced plans for a $25 million expansion to build a new 110,000-square-foot plant on 11 acres outside Chicago, creating an estimated 65 new jobs.
Continue readingHöganäs study shows how welding parameters of carbide overlays affect abrasive wear
Scientists from Höganäs in Sweden and in Johnstown, Pa., reported on the results of an investigation in Abrasive Wear of Carbide Weld Overlays for Ground Engaging Tools, a presentation at the ITSC 2018 conference in May.
Continue readingHigh-velocity thermal and cold spray processes developed to restore/repair heavy machinery
Researchers from the Center for Thermal Spray Research, Stony Brook University, N.Y., reported on thermal spray techniques for restoring heavy machinery in Infrastructure and Heavy Machinery Restoration Enabled Via Spray Processing: Lifecycle Design, Structural Reclamation, and Methods For Evaluation, at the ITSC 2018 conference in May.
Continue readingUnited States Steel reports 2017 earnings of $387 million, vs. 2016 loss of $440 million
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, reports full-year 2017 net earnings of $387 million, compared to full-year 2016 net loss of $440 million, as investments in upgrading equipment in its flat-rolled segment helped to improve performance.
Continue readingUnited States Steel reports 2017 earnings of $387 million, vs. 2016 loss of $440 million
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, reports full-year 2017 net earnings of $387 million, compared to full-year 2016 net loss of $440 million, as investments in upgrading equipment in its flat-rolled segment helped to improve performance.
Continue readingDanieli to build JSW Steel “Plate Mill of the Future” in Texas for higher quality and precision
JSW Steel (USA) Baytown, Texas, has received preliminary Board approval, contingent upon securing governmental financial support, to proceed with a full-scale modernization project expected to take approximately 20 months to complete.
Continue readingLindberg/MPH ships gas fired zinc melting, holding furnace for diecasting
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired melting and holding furnace with a maximum temperature of 850°F for melting and holding up to 45,000 pounds of molten zinc for diecasting.
Continue reading$1.5 million project to research monitoring digital production machines from the cloud
Researchers and analysts from Penn State, Case Western Reserve University, the GE Global Research Center, and Microsoft announce that they are working on a $1.5 million collaborative research project to develop a cloud-based wireless sensing and prognostic system for monitoring machinery health.
Continue readingOptomec LENS hybrid vertical milling system combines 3D printing, machining
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the Center for Remanufacturing and Resources Recovery (C3R) at the Rochester Institute of Technology is restoring legacy components with the Optomec LENS 3D Hybrid Vertical Milling Center system.
Continue readingClassic Article: Continuous Carburizing by Gas
Despite the growth of alloy steels and special means of surface hardening, the ancient art of carburizing steel remains one of the fundamental operations in the manufacture of machine parts.
Continue readingBodycote sponsors Periodic Table of Fictional Metals
Bodycote, Macclesfield, England, has produced the Periodic Table of Fictional Metals, elements that have appeared in classical myths, books, films, comic books, and computer games for many years, as creative people invented metals with mythical or magical qualities.
Continue readingSSAB introduces five steel product families for specific applications
SSAB, 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.
Continue readingAlcoa chooses the name Arconic for its future value-add company
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that the name for its future company dedicated to value-added products will be Arconic, where “A” represents Alcoa, “arc” represents the arc of progress, and “-conic” speaks to the company’s history of creating iconic products.
Continue readingAlcoa chooses the name Arconic for its future value-add company
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that the name for its future company dedicated to value-added products will be Arconic, in which “A” represents Alcoa, “arc” represents the arc of progress, and “-conic” speaks to the company’s history of creating iconic products.
Continue readingReliance acquires Tubular Steel for its specialty steel products
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Tubular Steel Inc., which stocks over 60,000 tons and ships over two million custom-cut lengths of pipe, tubing, and bar products annually.
Continue readingNew alloy developed for precision and industrial bearings
Puris LLC, Bruceton Mills, W. Va., recently signed a limited (partially) exclusive, term license agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland to produce a high-performance alloy enhanced with hafnium 60NiTi(Hf) that will be marketed under the brand name SM-103TM.
Continue readingProceq Equotip 550 portable instrument for hardness testing diagnoses roll imperfections
Proceq, Switzerland, introduces the Equotip 550 Leeb U roll hardness tester, designed for testing small, midsize, and large paper rolls, as well as thin-film, foil, and coated rolls.
Continue readingHoughton International celebrates 150-year anniversary
Open House at Valley Forge Headquarters Kicks Off a Year of Worldwide Events
Continue readingOxford Instruments introduces two new handheld XRF analyzers
Oxford Instruments, U.K., has added two new models to its X-Met8000 series of handheld XRF analyzers: the X-Met8000 Optimum and X-Met8000 Smart.
Continue readingTimken opens gear drive manufacturing facility in Houston
The Timken Co., North Canton, Ohio, has opened a new 27,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art gear drive manufacturing facility in Houston.
Continue readingImproved sintering zone boosts quality of MIM parts
Advances by Linde LLC and Megamet Solid Metals Inc. show that a best practice in the control of the carbon potential in the sintering zone can significantly improve the quality of metal-injection molded parts.
Continue readingJ.L. Becker installs car bottom furnace with duplicate combustion and control systems
J.L. Becker, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Company, Plymouth, Mich., has installed two similar furnace systems for a domestic alloy manufacturer.
Continue readingReducing machining time for aerospace aluminum parts
A new 5-axis, 5-spindle XP aerospace profiler delivers “X-treme Productivity” in machining of structural aluminum parts.
Continue readingSeco-Warwick gas-quench furnace equipped with PreNit to heat treat dies and tool steels
Seco-Warwick Corp., Meadville, Pa., announces that a commercial heat treater in the United States has purchased a 15-bar high-pressure gas quench furnace for its facility in the southeast.
Continue readingMesocoat completes field testing of molten-metal-resistant nanocomposite coating
Abakan Inc., Miami, announces that its portfolio company Mesocoat Inc., Euclid, Ohio, has completed initial field testing of PComP M, its proprietary thermal-spray nanocomposite coating.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft to install UBQ batch furnace line at fastener manufacturer’s facility
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., is to install a complete UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) furnace line in one of Fastenal Company’s plants in Winona, Minnesota.
Continue readingReliance Steel & Aluminum acquires Northern Illinois Steel Supply
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the capital stock of Northern Illinois Steel Supply Co. (NIS), a value-added distributor and fabricator of a variety of steel and nonferrous metal products.
Continue readingSiemens builds vacuum oxygen decarburization plant at Voestalpine Giesserei
Siemens Metals Technologies, Austria, has completed a vacuum oxygen decarburization (VOD) plant with a capacity of 50 metric tons at Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH.
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