Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has supplied a forced air recirculating oven to a manufacturer of medical and aerospace parts.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres develops better cleaning process for vacuum furnace heat exchangers
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that it has developed an improved process to clean heat exchanger fins that have become clogged with dirt and debris.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Thermal spray coating buildup
As the spray stream is manipulated over the part, overlapping occurs.
Continue readingAirbus Helicopters produces titanium latch shafts for aircraft doors via 3D printing
Airbus Helicopters, Germany, has officially begun production of latch shafts for the doors of the A350 passenger aircraft by metal additive manufacturing.
Continue readingAbstract from MS&T 2018: High Performance Amorphous Thermal Sprayed Coatings for Molten Salt Environment
Chloride salts have been identified as one of the promising media for thermal energy storage for achieving higher operating temperatures.
Continue readingOerlikon Metco’s Surface One thermal spray coating machine wins international awards
Oerlikon Metco, Switzerland, announces that its Surface One flagship machine for thermal spray coatings is the winner of two renowned international design awards.
Continue readingZinc oxide nanopillars deposited in surface coatings impale bacteria on nanospikes
The A-Star Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, reports that its researchers have developed nanostructured coatings that annihilate microbes by piercing their cell walls.
Continue readingU.S. Department of Energy grant to advance electrolysis process for copper production.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, announces that associate professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to run larger scale tests of a new way to produce copper using electricity to separate copper from melted sulfur-based minerals, which are the main source of copper.
Continue readingNorsk Titanium’s Rapid Plasma Deposition 3D printing process wins ITA award
Norsk Titanium, Norway, announces that it has been named the recipient of the International Titanium Association’s 2018 Titanium Application Development Award.
Continue readingAIST names flash bainite, nanotexturing, and steel foam as T.C. Graham Prize finalists
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology, Warrendale, Pa., has disclosed the three finalists for the third annual T.C. Graham Prize, which was established in 2014 through an endowment from one of the steel industry’s most successful and innovative executives, Tom C. Graham Sr.
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