Category: Aerospace and Defense

Solar Atmospheres adds new furnace with 5×10-6 Torr vacuum and all-moly hot zone

Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, recently added a state-of-the-art vacuum furnace with an all-molybdenum hot zone having dimensions 24 x 24 x 36 inches.

Air Products installs nitrogen supply system for Boeing composite-wing autoclave

Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., recently installed an advanced nitrogen supply system at Boeing’s new 777X Composite Wing Center in Everett, Washington.

QuesTek receives Tibbetts Award for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

QuesTek Innovations, Evanston, Ill., announces that it was invited to the White House in early January to accept the U.S. Small Business Administration 2016 Tibbetts Award.

Carpenter buys Puris for its titanium powder capabilities

Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces that it has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets and business of Puris LLC, a producer of titanium powder for additive manufacturing and advanced technology applications.

Additive manufacturing survey shows growth in Defense, Aircraft, and Space

Defence IQ, London, recently conducted a wide-ranging survey of additive manufacturing in the defense, aerospace, and space industries to explore what has changed in the last 12 months and what the future holds.

Airbus awards Ducommun multiyear contract to produce titanium structures

Ducommun Inc., Carson, Calif., has received a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract from Airbus to produce additional titanium structures for engine support and engine frames on the A320neo (new engine option) aircraft.

Sturbridge Metallurgical wins Sikorsky approval for materials testing

Sturbridge Metallurgical Services Inc., Sturbridge, Mass., announces that it has been approved as a Materials Testing Lab for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (a Lockheed Martin Corp.) and its manufacturing supplier base.

Questek to develop titanium, aluminum, steel alloys for military AM parts

Questek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., was recently awarded six separate projects from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army to develop technologies and design new alloys specifically tailored to the unique processing conditions and material-related challenges of additive manufacturing.

Electron beam additive manufacturing system to build titanium aircraft parts for Airbus

Sciaky Inc., Chicago, announces that Airbus has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art electron beam additive manufacturing EBAM 110 System to build large structural parts of titanium.

CVD Equipment acquires chemical vapor deposition technology from Tantaline

CVD Equipment Corp., Central Islip, N.Y., has purchased certain tantalum chemical vapor deposition technology formerly owned by Tantaline A/S, Nordborg, Denmark, and now owned by a CVD subsidiary operating under the name Tantaline CVD A/S.