Oerlikon Metco, Switzerland, has acquired assets, technologies, and key people from Recentis Advanced Materials Inc., Canada, which has developed novel technologies to master materials manufacturing at high temperatures.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: High-Temperature Nitriding for Deeper Case
High-temperature nitriding or solution nitriding at temperatures of 2010 ± 90°F is a new treatment available to produce cases with nitrogen concentrations in the range of 0.4 to 0.9 wt%, which is low compared to plasma nitriding treatments at low temperature (up to 16.9wt% N), but the resulting case is up to 100 times deeper (2 mm, or 0.08 in.).
Continue readingImmersion-tube lead holding/melting furnaces designed for auto battery plates
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped two 18-tube gas-fired immersion tube lead melting and holding furnaces to a supplier of the battery industry.
Continue readingSolar Manufacturing designs vacuum furnace to process mu-metal shields
Solar Manufacturing, Souderton, Pa., has completed a new Model HFL-5772-EQ vacuum furnace specially designed by Solar for processing mu-metal shields at Magnetic Shields Ltd. for electronic applications.
Continue readingSecoWarwick brazing system to produce aluminum heat exchangers for race cars
SecoWarwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that a complete controlled atmosphere brazing (CAB) system will be installed in a C & R Racing (USA) facility for the production of high-performance aluminum heat exchangers.
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