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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Element Materials Technology’s laboratory in Daleville, Ind., has significantly expanded the scope of its Nadcap accreditation for aluminum testing in the aerospace sector.
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Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas has purchased three of its vacuum furnaces for vacuum heat treatment of aircraft components.
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Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., has acquired Berkeley Design Automation Inc. (BDA), a recognized leader in nanometer analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit verification.
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Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., introduces an optimized semiconductor manufacturing platform aimed specifically at meeting the stringent and evolving needs of the automotive industry.
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., San Diego, has shipped the first RF switches built on the UltraCMOS 10 technology platform.
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Indium Corp., Utica, N.Y., has developed SACm, a high-reliability solder paste that increases the drop-shock performance in portable electronics by 800%, without compromising on thermal cycling.
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Applied Materials Inc., has developed its Applied Endura Volta CVD Cobalt system, the only tool capable of encapsulating copper interconnects in logic chips beyond the 28nm node by depositing precise, thin cobalt films.
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Finetech, Gilbert, Ariz., has been selected by the Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center (PRC), Atlanta, to provide its semi-automatic Matrix bonder to demonstrate the first manufacturable, low-temperature, ultra-fine-pitch copper interconnect and assembly technology.
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Cascade Microtech Inc., Beaverton, Ore., has developed the CM300 Probe System, which automates on-wafer device measurements and enhances device and process characterization and modeling by capturing the true electrical performance of devices, thus enabling hands-off productivity.
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Bruker Corp., Madison, Wis., announces the world’s first FTIR spectrometer that covers the complete mid and far Infrared/THz spectral ranges in one step with no gaps.
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Suss MicroTec, Germany, recently introduced a coater/developer tool especially developed to process wafers for fan-out wafer-level packaging applications.
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Using a material found in Silly Putty and surgical tubing, a group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering developed a new way to make lithium-ion batteries that will last three times longer between charges compared to the current industry standard.
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Constellium N.V., Paris, and UACJ Corp., Japan, have signed a Joint Venture Agreement to supply Body-in-White aluminum sheet to the North American automotive industry, following their January 2014 announcement of plans to collaborate.
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AK Steel, West Chester, Ohio, announces that Research Engineer and ASM International member Grant Thomas, Ph.D., has received the AISI “Finalist Medal” for the technical paper titled, “Tensile Properties Obtained by Quench & Partition Processing of Mn-Ni Steels at Room Temperature Quench Temperatures.”
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Pradeep Rohatgi, Fellow of ASM International and Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, has been elected Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters.
Continue readingSeverstal, Russia, reportedly plans to sell its North American steel operations in Mississippi and Michigan for about $1.5 billion.
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Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it is working with Imesaza, Spain’s largest heat treatment company, to provide advanced heat treating equipment for its new production center in Mexico.
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Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., recently delivered a single chamber bench model box furnace to Power Plant Services, an ISO 9001certified provider of parts and repairs for the power generation and steel mill industries.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a long-term agreement to supply aluminum sheet to Spirit AeroSystems Inc. in a contract valued at approximately $290 million over five years.
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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, Germany, has developed EcoProtect and ZM PrimeProtect, zinc-magnesium coatings that are said to meet the high surface requirements for exposed automotive body panels.
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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.
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The ExOne Co., N. Huntingdon, Pa., announces that its ExOne Material Applications Laboratory (ExMal) has qualified Inconel alloy 625 for 3D printing industrial applications at more than 99% density, utilizing its binder jetting technology.
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Zimmer Holdings Inc. and Biomet Inc., both of Warsaw, Ind., have approved a definitive agreement under which Zimmer will acquire Biomet in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $13.35 billion, including the assumption of net debt.
Continue readingLumenous Device Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., introduces a unique method to improve and enable new devices using locally differential heat treatment of Nitinol.
Continue readingMedShape Inc., Atlanta, announces FDA 510(k) clearance for its shape-memory PEEK ExoShape Femoral Soft Tissue Fastener for soft tissue graft fixation on the femoral side of the knee joint during anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery.
Continue readingAllegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, offers its NiTiNb shape memory alloy for coupling devices that need cryogenic martensite transformation temperatures and also need room temperature storage capability.
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 readingResearchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, have examined stress-induced martensitic phase transformations in magnetic shape memory alloys via in-situ nanoindentation techniques.
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Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that PMF Industries in Pennsylvania selected Ipsen to manufacture a vertical MetalMaster vacuum heat treatment system.
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