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Alcoa acquires Firth Rixson for its isothermal forging and ring production

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that it has completed the acquisition of Firth Rixson, a global leader in aerospace jet engine components.

Wisconsin Oven builds horizontal quench furnace for heat treating facility

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, announces the shipment of a horizontal quench system for solution heat treating of forged aluminum gun parts.

Town Hall Meeting focuses on data infrastructure

Over 40 representatives from the materials data community gathered for a Town Hall Meeting during MS&T14 to assess strategic data initiatives and their potential impact on infrastructure development. The interactive event, organized by representatives from NIST and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, opened with a series of presentations (linked below) and concluded with a panel-led question-and-answer session.

GlobalFoundries and Invecas partner for design service centers

Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., announces a partnership with Invecas Inc., also of Santa Clara, a newly formed design services provider focused on accelerating customer introduction of new products on leading-edge semiconductor process technologies.

GlobalFoundries and Invecas partner for design service centers

Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., announces a partnership with Invecas Inc., also of Santa Clara, a newly formed design services provider focused on accelerating customer introduction of new products on leading-edge semiconductor process technologies.

Veeco MOCVD system incorporates single-wafer reactor technology

Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, N.Y., introduces the Propel Power Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system, which incorporates single-wafer reactor technology for outstanding film uniformity, yield, and device performance.

Nikon-JEOL form partnership to correlate light and electron microscopy

Nikon Instruments Inc., Melville, N.Y., and JEOL, Peabody, Mass., have formed a partnership to research and develop solutions to address correlative light and electron microscopy.

Software enables sub-micron spatial resolution for microspectrophotometers

Craic Technologies, San Dimas, Calif., announces Spectral Surface Mapping (S2M) software for its UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometers.

ESI announces versatile laser micromachining platform

Electro Scientific Industries Inc., Portland, Maine, announces the µFlex Series multi-axis precision laser micromachining platform.

Applied Materials develops advanced patterning solution for memory devices

Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., announces that it has collaborated with Samsung Electronics Co. and PSK Inc., a Korea-based leader in photoresist removal, to develop an advanced patterning solution for the manufacture of future generations of NAND and DRAM device designs.

Imec, Coventor partner to advance CMOS process development

Imec, Belgium, has announced a joint development project with Coventor, Cary, N.C., that will enable faster and more optimized development of advanced manufacturing technology in the 3D device architecture era, extending down to Imec’s 10- and 7-nm processes.

Qualcomm joins SRC’s Trustworthy and Secure Semiconductors and Systems initiative

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Research Triangle Park, N.C., announces that Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., has joined SRC’s Trustworthy and Secure Semiconductors and Systems (T3S) program.

Bruker microtomography system images complete internal structure

Bruker microCT, Belgium, introduces the SkyScan 1172, a high-resolution desktop microtomography (micro-CT) system for 3D nondestructive X-ray imaging of an object’s internal microstructure.

Semiconductor sales in September increase by 8% over last year

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, announces that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $87 billion during the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 5.7% over the previous quarter and a jump of 8% compared to the third quarter of 2013.

Forget Spiderman, meet Geckoman

Gecko-inspired adhesives can help humans climb and may provide a better grip for robotic arms in factories and in space.

Protecting soldiers with ceramics

Researchers at Georgia Tech School, Atlanta, are investigating novel methods for making body armor strike faces for use by the military and others.

Can-Eng Furnaces to build four furnace systems for mining supplier

Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited, Niagara Falls, Ontario, has received an order from a large international mining and materials supplier with locations spread throughout North America, South America, and East Asia.

Can-Eng Furnaces to build four furnace systems for mining supplier

Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited, Niagara Falls, Ontario, has received an order from a large international mining and materials supplier with locations spread throughout North America, South America, and East Asia.

Keystone spiral welding technology enables taller wind turbines

Keystone Tower Systems, Somerville, Mass., is developing a system that adapts a traditional pipe-making technology to make wind turbines on location at wind farms, making taller towers more economical.

Aerojet Rocketdyne partners with NASA to advance copper 3D printing

NASA, Washington, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp company, Sacramento, Calif., successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on an advanced rocket engine Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) using copper alloy additive manufacturing technology.

Solar Atmospheres extends contract to inspect Boeing 787 titanium seat tracks

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with RTI Claro, a business unit of RTI International Metals Inc., to extend its contract for the vacuum stress-relieving and fluorescent liquid penetrant inspection of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner titanium seat track system until December 2021.

Edgy films are perfect catalysts for fuel cells

Chemists at Rice University, Houston, found an easy and inexpensive way to create flexible films from molybdenum disulfide, a versatile chemical compound with edges that are highly efficient catalysts.

Fraunhofer develops iron-base composite implants to stimulate bone growth

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, have reportedly developed load-bearing, biodegradable implants made of a composite of iron reinforced with tricalcium phosphate (TCP), which stimulates the healing process of the bone.

EFD Induction automatic brazing machine installed at Thermo King

EFD Induction, Norway, announces that Thermo King recently installed an automatic brazing machine from EFD Induction.

United Technologies Research Center wins R&D 100 Awards

United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), East Hartford, Conn., has been recognized by R&D Magazine as a recipient of R&D 100 Awards for two breakthrough eco-friendly technologies: Ecotuff corrosion inhibitor for high-strength aluminum alloys, and a portable aluminum deposition system for field repair of large structures.