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Market analysis predicts thermal spray coatings market to reach $12 billion by 2022

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.

Automotive expansion meets strong demand for aluminum vehicles

Alcoa Inc., New York, completed an expansion at its Tennessee facility dedicated to supplying aluminum sheet to the automotive industry.

Boeing opens advanced R&D center for composite and fuselage manufacturing

Boeing, North Charleston, S.C., has opened a 104,000-sq. ft. Research & Technology-South Carolina center, to lead the company’s research and development efforts in advanced manufacturing of composite fuselage and propulsion systems.

Nucor-Yamato to invest $75 million in quench and self-tempering heat treating process

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces that Nucor-Yamato Steel Co., a joint venture between Nucor and Yamato Kogyo Co. Ltd., is installing a $75 million quench and self-tempering process system for its 1.4 million tons of Mill 2 rolling capacity in Blytheville, Arkansas.

Alcoa to separate into Upstream Company and Value-Add Company

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that it will separate into two companies: the Upstream Company, which will consist of the Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminum, Casting, and Energy businesses; and the Value-Add Company, which will include the current Global Rolled Products, Engineered Products and Solutions, and Transportation and Construction Solutions.

Message from the Incoming President of IMS

Jaret Frafjord is the incoming President of the International Metallographic Society.

Advancing development of thermal manufacturing technologies

Cross-industry Consortium Leads the Way to Advanced Thermal Manufacturing

Ford and Alcoa collaborate to make stronger, more formable Micromill aluminum alloys

Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., and Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, are collaborating to produce next-generation Micromill automotive aluminum alloys that are 40% more formable and 30% stronger.

Atomic structure model enables prediction of metal combinations that can form metallic glasses

Australia’s University of New South Wales announces that a research team has developed a method for predicting the combinations of metals that will produce metallic glass alloys.

Solar Atmospheres new Southeast plant receives Nadcap accreditation for heat treating

Solar Atmospheres Southeast, Greenville, S.C.
Has received Nadcap (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) heat treating accreditation only three months after opening by demonstrating its ongoing commitment to quality.

Suss MicroTec launches semi-automated high-force wafer bonder

Suss MicroTec, Germany, introduces the XB8 semi-automated wafer bonding platform, which supports substrates with a wafer size of up to 200 mm.

Heat Treat expo sells out

The exposition for Heat Treat 2015 has sold out for the second time in a row.

Macom announces milestone in the commercialization of GaN on silicon technology

Macom Technology Solutions Inc., Lowell, Mass., reports that it has shipped more than one million GaN-on-Silicon (GaN on Si) RF power devices to date for communications, military, and other RF applications.

JEOL introduces entry level Field Emission SEM with ultrahigh spatial resolution

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.

Global Foundries launches 22FDX semiconductor technology for ultralow-power devices

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.

Physicists take a picture of magnetic waves

Magnetic waves are known as solitons—for solitary waves—and were theorized to occur in magnets in the 1970s.

Bruker XFlash FlatQuad SDD enables high vacuum and low beam-current EDS analysis

Bruker Nano Analytics, Madison, Wis., has developed XFlash FlatQuad, a side-entry silicon drift detector positioned between the SEM pole piece and sample.

Zeiss hardware/software package streamlines image acquisition and extends capacity of SEMs

Zeiss, Pleasanton, Calif., introduces the Zeiss Atlas 5, a powerful hardware and software package that extends the capacity of its scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beam SEMs (FIB-SEM).

Austria’s AMS to invest $2 billion in new fab in New York state

AMS AG, Austria, formerly Austriamicrosystem, plans to locate a new 360,000 sq. ft. fab in upstate New York at the Nano Utica site in Marcy to manufacture analog devices on 200/300 mm wafers.

DOD awards $75 million to FlexTech Alliance for flexible hybrid electronics

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).