Month: March 2017

Seco Warwick enables constant control of temperature in multi-chamber heat-treat furnaces

Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that its engineering team has designed an innovative technology for continuous control over the heating and cooling of the entire cycle in multi-chamber furnaces.

Lucifer Furnaces benchtop furnace heat-treats BeCu pins in nitrogen atmosphere

Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has shipped a customized benchtop heat-treating furnace to R. Hueter Co., Beverly, Mass., a CNC machine shop, to harden beryllium-copper pins.

Sinterite installs process development furnace at China research center

Sinterite, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Company, St. Marys, Pa., recently installed a continuous belt furnace for development of sintering, brazing, annealing, and heat treatment applications at the new Air Liquide Shanghai Research & Technology Center.

Kateeva doubles space to manufacture inkjet printing equipment for OLED displays

Kateeva, Newark, Calif., is expanding its headquarters by leasing an adjacent building at its Newark campus to facilitate production ramp-up of its Yieldjet inkjet printing manufacturing equipment for the global flat panel display industry.

Dynacast to acquire Signicast, the world’s largest investment casting manufacturer

Dynacast International, Charlotte, N.C., has signed a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Signicast LLC, a highly automated and vertically integrated manufacturer of precision investment cast parts.

Meridian, Birmingham City U. partner to cut cost of diecast magnesium parts

Birmingham City University, England, has signed an exclusive partnership with Meridian Lightweight Technologies, Plymouth, Mich., to showcase magnesium diecast components as viable alternatives for luxury car makers and the aerospace industry.

3D printing enables 50% less mass in titanium and graphite satellite structures

Space Systems Loral (SSL), Palo Alto, Calif., announces that it has successfully introduced additive manufacturing techniques for titanium and graphite structural components into its geostationary satellite platform.

Spray Tips: Porosity in Coatings

Porosity is an important coating feature that strongly influences coating properties.

GE Aviation invests more than $4 billion in the United States over five years

GE Aviation, Evendale, Ohio, announces that its investments in the United States have reached $4.3 billion in expanding operations during 2011-2016, thanks to record production on a new generation of jet engines, engine components, and aircraft systems.

Sandia develops kinetic deposition of ceramic nanoparticles to build thin films

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., reports that its scientists have developed an aerosol deposition process in which ceramic nanoparticles form coatings when deposited at high speed at room temperature.