Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp., Carnegie, Pa., has acquired ASW Steel Inc., Welland, Ontario, a specialty steel producer with customers in the oil and gas, power generation, aerospace, transportation, and construction industries.
Continue readingArconic wins billion-dollar contract from Airbus for aluminum sheet and plate
Arconic, Pittsburgh, Pa., announces a multi-year contract with Airbus valued at approximately $1 billion, to supply aluminum sheet and plate for its highest-volume programs.
Continue readingPdMetrics software now included with Ipsen Titan heat treat systems
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that its PdMetrics platform is now included standard with its Titan heat treating systems.
Continue readingRussian scientists develop strong shape memory alloy based on Fe-Ni-Co-Al
The Tomsk University Laboratory for Physics of High-Strength Crystals, Russia, announces that its researchers have designed a new high-strength iron-base shape-memory alloy whose properties are developed through a heat treatment technology that they have patented.
Continue readingAlcoa completes separation from parent company Arconic
Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it has completed the separation from its parent company Alcoa Inc. (now named Arconic Inc.) and has begun operating as an independent, publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AA.
Continue readingThermo-Calc and QuesTek partner for advanced modeling and materials design
Thermo-Calc Software AB, Stockholm, and QuesTek International LLC, Evanston, Ill., have partnered to establish a joint company, QuesTek Europe AB, which will offer Integrated Computational Materials Engineering modeling services and novel materials design and development to the European market.
Continue readingBright annealing furnace heat treats stainless steel under inert gas
Ajax Tocco Magnethermic, Warren, Ohio, recently shipped a bright annealing induction furnace to a major stainless steel tube manufacturer in the Northeast United States.
Continue readingPraxair and GE Aviation form joint venture to develop advanced aircraft engine coatings
Praxair Surface Technologies Inc., Danbury, Conn., and GE Aviation, Cincinnati, announce the formal creation of PG Technologies LLC, a joint venture that will focus on development, support, and application of specialized coatings tailored for GE Aviation’s and CFM International’s current and future engine models, including the GE9X and LEAP engines.
Continue readingPowder metallurgy systems combine reactive metals with inert gas atomization
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that its subsidiary Retech Systems LLC, Ukiah, Calif., has developed metal gas atomization systems that combine melting of reactive metals and alloys with inert gas atomization to meet a variety of powder specifications.
Continue readingVoestalpine expands capabilities to additive manufacturing of steel
The Voestalpine Group, Dusseldorf, announces that it is expanding from traditional steel manufacturing to 3D printing with the opening of an additive manufacturing research and development facility.
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