Nikon Precision, Belmont, Calif., has won the 2014 “Best of West” Award for its NSR-S630D Immersion Scanner.
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IBM to research graphene wafers to replace silicon
IBM, Armonk, N.Y., plans to invest $3 billion over the next five years in two broad research and early stage development programs.
Continue readingCustomized military armored composite crew compartments
Morgan Advanced Materials (Morgan), Windsor, UK, announces that survivability solutions offered by its Composites and Defence systems business are being used in customized armored composite crew compartments.
Continue readingPolycarbonate window solution drives down vehicle weight
The Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., revealed a drivable multi-material lightweight vehicle (MMLV) with an advanced polycarbonate (PC) glazing solution from SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business that reduces weight by 35% compared to the same window on a 2013 model.
Continue readingBosio commissions 72-foot pit furnaces for heat treatment of turbine rotors
Aichelin Group, Plymouth, Mich., announces that member company Bosio, Slovenia, has commissioned a 72-foot pit furnace, a 72-foot split type furnace, and a PLC controlled spray quenching unit of the same size for the heat treatment of turbine rotors with a length up to 52 feet and a rotor weight up to 175 tons.
Continue readingStratasys acquires Solid Concepts for its 3D printing of medical and aerospace parts
Stratasys, Minneapolis, announces the acquisitions of Solid Concepts and Harvest Technologies, which will be combined with RedEye, its existing digital manufacturing service business, to establish one additive manufacturing services business unit.
Continue readingContinental launches first automotive aluminum turbocharger housing
Continental Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., announces that its powertrain developers have launched series production of the first car turbocharger with an aluminum turbine housing.
Continue readingAlcoa forged aluminum fan blade to fly on P&W jet engine
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announced at the Farnborough Air Show that it has signed a ten-year, $1.1 billion agreement with Pratt & Whitney for state-of-the-art jet-engine components.
Continue readingAlcoa’s aluminum bonding technology wins R&D 100 award
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that R&D Magazine has named Alcoa 951 — an enabler for adhesive bonding of aluminum-intensive vehicles (AIVs) — an R&D 100 Award winner.
Continue readingIron-manganese-silicon shape-memory alloys designed to reinforce concrete
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.
Continue readingMedShape porous PEEK suture anchor features shape memory technology
MedShape Inc., Atlanta, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Morphix SP Suture Anchor.
Continue readingAdmedes Schuessler invests $80 million for Nitinol production and R&D center
Admedes Schuessler GmbH, Germany, has strategically invested $80 million in its operations in Pforzheim, Germany, to expand Nitinol manufacturing and to develop new technologies to support the medical device industry’s rapid pace of innovation.
Continue readingMemry Corp. to expand Nitinol manufacturing facility in Bethel
Memry Corp., Bethel, Conn., announces that it will expand its U.S. headquarters in Bethel by 15,000 ft2, enhancing its precision manufacturing of Nitinol components for the medical device industry.
Continue readingActuator Solutions wins German Innovation Award for shape memory devices
Actuator Solutions GmbH (ASG), Germany, a subsidiary of Alfmeier Präzision and SAES Getters, has won the 2014 German Innovation Award for its development of a wide range of applications for shape memory devices.
Continue readingNew metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., built a silver, glass, and chromium nanostructure that can all but stop visible light cold in one direction while giving it a pass in the other.
Continue readingAlcoa to acquire Firth Rixson for its aerospace forging capabilities
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Firth Rixson, a global leader in aerospace jet engine components, from Oak Hill Capital Partners, for $2.85 billion in cash and stock.
Continue readingCMI Industry to provide furnace to develop new heat treatments for aerospace alloys
CMI Industry Groupe, Belgium, parent company of CMI Industry Americas, Salem, Ohio, announces that it will provide a heat treatment furnace at the Advanced Forming Research Center in Glasgow, Scotland, to carry out a range of combustion tests to develop new metal processing techniques for aerospace alloys.
Continue readingOptomec awarded $4.0 million to implement 3D printing for aircraft repair
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the company has been awarded $4 million from AmericaMakes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
Continue readingVac Aero announces two HVOF systems based on carbide jets installed in Poland
Vac Aero, Quebec, announces that fully integrated high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) systems based on a new generation Carbide Jet System have been installed in two of its plants in Poland.
Continue readingCorex tungsten chromium carbide thermal spray coating optimizes cylinder durability
Apex Hydraulics, U.K., has developed a Corex tungsten chromium carbide thermal spray coating that provides hardness up to 1400 HV and bond strength of about 10,000 psi.
Continue readingCeramic coating reduces temperature on innovative superboat
Ceramic coating helps to deliver range of benefits in marine application including lower engine bay temperature improved efficiency, simpler maintenance and protection for Kevlar and carbon fiber hull.
Continue readingThe aeroacoustics of jets
Simulations helps scientists understand and control turbulence in humans and machines illustration showing air pushed through vocal folds causing them to vibrate.
Continue reading25th AeroMat Conference Features Tuskegee Airman
The 25th AeroMat Conference and Exposition, held June 16-19 in Orlando, Fla., featured a theme of “the latest word in aerospace materials.”
Continue readingMGI strategic plan released for public comment
The National Science and Technology Council’s subcommittee on the MGI released for public comment a draft of its first strategic plan, to serve as a roadmap for Federal agencies as they execute on the initiative vision going forward.
Continue readingAlcoa to expand investment casting of superalloy jet engine blades
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that it is investing $25 million at its Alcoa Power and Propulsion facility in Hampton, Virginia, to scale up its enhanced equiax investment casting technology.
Continue readingVac Aero vacuum furnace with six-bar argon-nitrogen quench system shipped to aerospace manufacturer
Vac Aero International Inc., Burlington, Ontario, announces that it has shipped a VAV 7260 HV-6 vertical bottom loading vacuum furnace with a work chamber 72 in. diameter by 60 in. high to an aerospace manufacturer.
Continue readingSeco-Warwick presents “Low-Pressure Carburizing of Pyrowear Alloy 53” at AeroMat 25
Engineers from Seco-Warwick, Poland, discussed a low-pressure-carburizing simulator dedicated to Pyrowear Alloy 53 at AeroMat 25.
Continue readingSandvik hyper-duplex stainless steel tube extends heat exchanger tube life by 2 to 15 years
Sandvik Materials Technology, Sweden, reports that a major Caribbean producer of furfural, an organic compound derived from agricultural byproducts, chose to replace the existing tube in its heat exchangers with hyper-duplex stainless steel by Sandvik.
Continue readingOrganic thin-film transistors formed through room-temperature printing
The National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, reports that engineers have developed room-temperature-printed electronics, by which electronic devices can be manufactured at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions.
Continue readingCadence and Intel collaborate to support 14nm Tri-Gate design platform
Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., announce that they are collaborating to support Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process technology for customers of Intel Custom Foundry.
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