New family of luminescent materials could find broad uses in chemical and biological detectors
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Company expands to accommodate additive manufacturing capabilities
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, is expanding its R&D center in Pennsylvania to accelerate the development of advanced 3D-printing materials and processes.
Continue readingSeco-Warwick Allied commissions two aluminum melting and holding furnaces
Seco-Warwick Allied, India, recently commissioned two 60-metric-ton aluminum melting and holding furnaces for Hindalco Industries Ltd.
Continue readingCarl Zeiss Microscopy celebrates fifty years of scanning electron microscopes
Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd., England, marked the 50th anniversary of the first sale of a commercial scanning electron microscope with an event in Cambridge.
Continue readingIpsen ships Titan H8 furnace to Saudi Arabia, the first outside the United States
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it has made its first shipment of a Titan H8 furnace to a company outside the United States: A Titan H8 vacuum furnace was shipped to a facility in Saudi Arabia.
Continue readingRice and Penn State open center for development of 2-D coatings
Rice University, Houston, and Pennsylvania State University, University Park, announce that scientists at a new research center will study, in collaboration with industry, the development of atom-thin two-dimensional coatings.
Continue readingEuro-K builds micro gas turbines via EOS direct metal laser sintering
EOS, Germany, reports that Euro-K, Germany, has developed compact micro-burners for energy conversion made by EOS direct metal laser sintering technology.
Continue readingProgressive Surface installs suspension plasma spray systems for semiconductor coatings
Progressive Surface, Grand Rapids, Mich., recently installed three 100HE plasma spray systems for the semiconductor industry.
Continue readingDOD awards $75 million to FlexTech Alliance for flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing
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 for Flexible Hybrid Electronics.
Continue readingAntimatter catches a wave at SLAC
A study demonstrates a new, efficient way to accelerate positrons, the antimatter opposites of electrons.
Continue readingNew software and service package for project proposals
Granta Design, UK, announced GRANTA MI:Collaborate, a cloud-hosted software package that makes it easy for multi-partner collaborative projects to develop, manage, and use materials knowledge.
Continue readingMetallurgist named CEO of Google
Google recently announced a corporate restructure and named metallurgist, Sundar Pichai as its new CEO.
Continue readingATI announces management changes
Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, has named John D. Sims executive vice president, High Performance Materials and Components segment.
Continue reading“The Heat Is On:” New social event at Heat Treat 2015
The ASM Heat Treating Society, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that a new social event will be held at Heat Treat 2015 in Detroit.
Continue readingMaterion to provide AlBeCast components to Lockheed Martin for F-35 jet
Materion Beryllium & Composites, Elmore, Ohio, announces that it has delivered the first finished AlBeCast aluminum-beryllium investment cast components to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS).
Continue readingCoorsTek Medical to expand production of CeraSurf alumina matrix composites
CoorsTek Medical, Fort Worth, Texas, announces a five-year, multi-million dollar capital investment program to support the growing worldwide demand for its ceramic hip replacement components and turnkey hip arthroplasty solutions.
Continue readingAllcast to add 29,000 square feet of aluminum die-casting capability
Allcast LLC, Allenton, Wis., announces a $14 million, 29,000-square-foot addition to its current aluminum diecasting facility in the Town of Addison.
Continue readingLake City acquires new vacuum furnace from VFS
Lake City Heat Treating Corp., Warsaw, Ind., announces that it has acquired a new vacuum furnace, bringing the company’s vacuum heat treating line to seven.
Continue readingUtitec expands heat treating capabilities with Ipsen Titan furnace
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it recently shipped a Titan vacuum furnace to Utitec’s facility in Watertown, Conn.
Continue readingVac Aero launches series of articles on vacuum pump technology
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, announces that it will publish a new monthly column on vacuum pump technology in its “What’s Hot” newsletter.
Continue readingImec expands R&D of GaN-on-silicon technology for power devices to speed industrialization
Imec Nano-Electronics Research Center, Belgium, is extending its gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) R&D program.
Continue readingAmkor to invest $60 million in China to expand assembly and test facility
Amkor Technology Inc., Tempe, Ariz., announces plans to invest $60 million to expand its state-of-the-art assembly and test factory located in China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone.
Continue readingHybrid instrument combines photonic-nanomechanical force microscopy and nanospectroscopy
A microscope being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and beneath the surface.
Continue readingOxford Instruments launches silicon drift detector with ultrahigh resolution at low kV
Oxford Instruments, U.K., has launched X-Max Extreme, a silicon drift detector for ultrahigh resolution FEG and FIB-SEM applications.
Continue readingUniversity of Arkansas to develop circuit simulation model for GaN devices
Researchers at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, have received a $200,000 grant to study the modeling of gallium nitride devices.
Continue readingCompanies to jointly develop carbon fiber for lighter cars
The Ford Motor Co. and DowAksa signed a joint development agreement to formally advance research on cost-effective, high-volume manufacturing of automotive-grade carbon fiber.
Continue readingBerkshire Hathaway to acquire Precision Castparts in cash transaction
The boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha, Neb., and Precision Castparts Corp., Portland, Ore., have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire all outstanding PCC shares for $235 per share in cash.
Continue readingArgonne receives patent for ultra-fast boriding process, Bodycote acquires license
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., announces that it has been granted a patent for its ultra-fast boriding process.
Continue readingApplied Materials introduces high-performance ALD technology for 3D thin film devices
Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, introduces the Applied Olympia ALD (atomic layer deposition) system featuring a unique, modular architecture that delivers high-performance ALD technology to manufacturers of leading-edge 3D memory and logic chips.
Continue readingMaterion doubles capacity for ToughMet CuNiSn alloys
Materion Performance Alloys, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, has more than doubled its capacity to produce foil gauge ToughMet alloys that are used to make the company’s BrushForm 158 copper-nickel-tin alloy strip product line.
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