Category: Aerospace and Defense

GE Additive acquires Arcam EBM Spectra H metal additive manufacturing system

GE Additive, Cincinnati, announces that it has purchased an Arcam EBM Spectra H metal additive manufacturing system, which is designed to handle materials susceptible to high heat and cracking.

ATI to invest $95 million to expand isothermal forging and heat treating center in Cudahy

ATI Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that its board of directors has approved an investment to expand its isothermal forging and heat treating capacities to satisfy growing demand from the aerospace jet engine market.

Residual Stress Workshop at Thermal Processing in Motion Conference

This Workshop will collect information on current gaps relative to designing products and establishing product definitions that include Bulk Residual Stress as a component attribute. Concepts for possible Industry Standards will be proposed to support enhanced product capabilities.

Ipsen ships ten heat treating furnaces for aerospace, medical, and other industries

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that in the first quarter it shipped ten furnaces to companies that process parts for the aerospace, commercial heat treating, and medical industries in California, Georgia, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin, and also to one location in Asia.

Friction stir dovetailing creates metallurgical bond between aluminum and steel plate

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its engineers have developed and successfully tested a novel process called friction stir dovetailing that enables joining thick plates of aluminum and steel.

Bodycote signs 15-year contract with Rolls-Royce for vacuum heat treatment and HIP

Bodycote, England, the world’s largest provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, announces that it has signed a 15-year contract with Rolls-Royce’s Civil Aerospace business.

Furnace for Nadcap and MedAccred features diffusion pump for high vacuum levels

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Midwest Thermal-Vac recently purchased a Titan vacuum furnace with 12-bar gas quenching for processing parts that need to comply with Nadcap and medical industry requirements such as MedAccred.

Japanese researchers discover 16 million tons of rare-earth deposits in deep-sea mud

Several Japanese universities, research groups, and government agencies published an article in the April 10 edition of the online journal Scientific Reports describing results of their analysis of the rare-earth metals they discovered in deep-sea mud near Japan back in 2013.

JSW Steel to invest $500 million in hot-end facility with contiguous large-diameter pipe mill

JSW Steel USA, Baytown, Texas, announces plans to invest up to $500 million to install the most technologically advanced and eco-friendly hot-end facility in the world, setting a new industry standard.

Carpenter to invest $100 million in soft magnetic materials and precision rolling mill

Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces that it will invest $100 million in soft magnetic materials production and a new precision hot strip rolling mill at its facility in Reading, Pennsylvania, to help meet increasing demand for aerospace, consumer electronics, and electric vehicle manufacturing customers.