Category: Aerospace and Defense

Goodfellow to offer Victrex mineral-filled semicrystalline and amorphous PEEK film

Goodfellow, Coraopolis, Pa., announces a major expansion of its range of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) materials to include 12 different forms: film, sheet, fiber, monofilament, powder, granule, tube, rod, mesh, bolt, nut, and washer.

Sandvik installs Renishaw laser 3D printers and collaborates on process development

Sandvik Additive Manufacturing, Sweden, announces that it has installed several new Renishaw RenAM 500Q quad laser printing machines, and is also initiating further collaboration with Renishaw in areas such as materials development, AM process technologies, and post-processing.

Abstract from MS&T 2018 technical program: Effects of Post-Build Thermal Processing on the Microstructure of Laser Powder-Bed Produced 17-4 PH Stainless Steel

17-4 PH is a martensitic stainless steel of interest for additive manufacturing (AM) applications because of its combination of high strength and corrosion resistance.

Quintus Technologies system combines HIP with heat treatment at Lake City Heat Treating

Quintus Technologies, Sweden, announces that Lake City Heat Treating, Warsaw, Ind., has installed a Quintus hot isostatic press with uniform rapid cooling, the first to be delivered to the North American market.

HRE Wheels, GE Additive build 3D-printed titanium wheel via electron beam melting

HRE Wheels, Vista Calif., and GE Additive, Cincinnati, Ohio, announce a partnership agreement and unveiled the first titanium wheel created using electron-beam melting of titanium powder.

Carpenter acquires LPW Technology, continues additive manufacturing investment

Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces it has acquired LPW Technology Ltd., England, for approximately $81 million.

Ipsen USA receives orders for nine Titan vacuum furnaces and seven others in October

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, secured multiple vacuum furnace orders last month, ending with a total of 16 new orders, including nine Titan vacuum furnaces, a record month in the 10-year production of the global platform product.

Nadcap recognizes Solar Atmospheres Greenville plant for superior performance

Solar Atmospheres, Greenville, S.C., announces that it has been awarded Nadcap 18-month Merit status for Heat Treating, Brazing and Carburizing.

GE Aviation to build cobalt-chrome aircraft power door bracket by additive manufacturing

GE Aviation, Cincinnati, announces that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given ‘change in design’ approval to GE Additive and GE Aviation to replace a conventionally manufactured power door opening system (PDOS) bracket, used on GE Aviation’s GEnx-2B commercial airline engines, with an additively manufactured bracket.

Siemens and Chromalloy invest $139 million in Advanced Airfoil Components joint venture

Siemens, Munich, and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., have opened their new joint venture, Advanced Airfoil Components (AAC), near Tampa, Florida.