Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Tokyo, announces that it has developed an advanced CD Measurement SEM (CD-SEM), the CG7300, which provides enhanced high-precision measurement and improved throughput performance.
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Novelis Inc., Atlanta, announces a new collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology in which it will invest $2.5 million to establish a Novelis Innovation Hub to promote aluminum basic and translational research, innovative business models, and related educational endeavors.
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Quaker Chemical Corp., Conshohocken, Pa., and Houghton International, Valley Forge, Pa., have combined to create Quaker Houghton, a global leader in industrial process fluids to the primary metals and metalworking markets.
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Paragraf, a recent University of Cambridge spin-out company in England, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up to eight inches (20 cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices.
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Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, N.Y., announces that its GENxcel R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy System earned the 2018 Compound Semiconductor (CS) Industry Innovation Award.
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AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, accepted an award of up to $1.2 million last October from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office program to investigate novel low-density steels that could ultimately be used in automotive structural applications.
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Siemens, Munich, and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., have opened their new joint venture, Advanced Airfoil Components (AAC), near Tampa, Florida.
Continue readingLinde Electronics, Bridgewater, N.J., is investing in the expansion of existing products to improve business continuity planning (BCP), while adding new products with improved purity to meet the growing needs of sub-10-nm semiconductor factories and advanced flat panel manufacturers.
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United Process Controls Inc. (UPC), Cincinnati, Ohio, and Praxair, Danbury, Conn., have formed a collaboration in which customers will have access to Praxair’s gases, application technologies, and supply systems, along with UPC’s portfolio of specialized industrial flow measurement and atmosphere-control products.
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Constellium N.V., Amsterdam, has expanded its University Technology Center (UTC) at Brunel University in London with an R&D center to transition technology from the laboratory to its production facilities around the world.
Continue readingUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, announces research demonstrating that the chemical element ruthenium (Ru) is the fourth single element with unique magnetic properties at room temperature.
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Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., and Arconic, New York, announce a two-year Joint Development Agreement to develop customized lightweight material systems and advanced manufacturing processes for aerospace structures.
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Engineers from Oerlikon-Metco, Switzerland, discuss new developments for coating internal diameters and surfaces in their presentation titled Technology Advancements for Coating of Internal Diameters.
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A team of researchers from three universities reports that amorphous silicon can be grown into superelastic horseshoe-shaped crystalline nanowires that can undergo stretching of more than twice their original length, and still maintain their excellent electric properties.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., reports that its scientists have developed a method for making a renewable, leathery shape-memory material that is coated with a thin layer of silver nanoparticles to activate electrical conductivity.
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A team of researchers from three universities reports that amorphous silicon can be grown into superelastic horseshoe-shaped crystalline nanowires that can undergo stretching of more than twice their original length, and still maintain their excellent electric properties.
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Thermal spray coatings exhibit a unique microstructural architecture. Coatings are formed as melted and partially melted particles of different sizes impact substrates at a rate of perhaps one million particles per second, and build up one upon the other.
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Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a natural gas direct-fired batch oven with a separate cooling chamber to a manufacturer of automotive parts for curing rubber automotive hoses.
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Gas nitriding has been performed for almost a century with many variations over the years. The benefits of nitriding are well documented and nitriding has gained amazing industrial acceptance. However, the equipment and control of the nitrided layer has continued to be challenging, and as such, nitriding is still slowly being adopted by industry, but the rate of change is improving.
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The graph shows the results of fatigue testing of standard round bar 316 stainless steel specimens, in tension-compression cycling (R = –1) The symbols represent different sets of specimens, with nontreated specimens identified by triangles, treated specimens by squares.
Continue readingIn fluidized-bed powder feeders, a bed of powder is continuously agitated by a fluidizing gas, in this case the carrier gas.
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Volumetric powder feeders are based on a positive-displacement mechanism that delivers packets of powder.
Continue readingThe angle of impingement of the spray stream is a source of porosity, because of shadowing. The diagram illustrates the type of shadowing generally associated with coatings sprayed at angles below 45° from the optimal normal angle of incidence.
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Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Kentucky, announces that it will spend $1.3 billion to build an auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminum rolling mill, the nation’s first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in over three decades.
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QuesTek Innovations, Evanston, Ill., announces that it was invited to the White House in early January to accept the U.S. Small Business Administration 2016 Tibbetts Award.
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Ducommun Inc., Carson, Calif., has received a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract from Airbus to produce additional titanium structures for engine support and engine frames on the A320neo (new engine option) aircraft.
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Meridian Lightweight Technologies, Plymouth, Mich., announces that Birmingham City University, England, has signed an exclusive partnership with Meridian, the world’s largest producer of magnesium components, to showcase magnesium as a viable alternative for luxury car makers and the aerospace industry.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.
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Researchers created a self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.
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Researchers and analysts from Penn State, Case Western Reserve University, the GE Global Research Center, and Microsoft announce that they are working on a $1.5 million collaborative research project to develop a cloud-based wireless sensing and prognostic system for monitoring machinery health.
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