Category: Aerospace and Defense

Alcoa chooses the name Arconic for its future value-add company

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that the name for its future company dedicated to value-added products will be Arconic, in which “A” represents Alcoa, “arc” represents the arc of progress, and “-conic” speaks to the company’s history of creating iconic products.

Alcoa awarded U.S. Army contract to reduce weight of combat vehicles

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that it has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Army worth up to $50 million for R&D projects focused on developing innovative lightweighting solutions for ground combat vehicles such as tanks.

Northrop Grumman selected to build B-21 stealth bomber

Northrop Grumman, Falls Church, Va., has released this artist’s rendering of its B-21 stealth bomber, selected last year by the United States Air Force as the Long Range Strike Bomber of the 21st century.

Solar Atmospheres partners with Pressure Technology for aircraft parts

Solar Atmospheres, Hermitage, Pa., announces that it now partners with Pressure Technology Inc. (PTI), Concord, Ohio, to provide heat treating of aircraft parts after they have been hot isostatically pressed to high density at the PTI facility.

UTC Aerospace Systems opens $8 million advanced materials laboratory in Connecticut

UTC Aerospace Systems, Windsor Locks, Conn., has opened an $8 million, 20,000 ft2 state-of-the-art Materials and Process Engineering laboratory to support research, engineering, and production of advanced materials for aerospace applications.

Alcoa to supply aluminum, aluminum-lithium, and titanium parts to Boeing

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces a long-term supply agreement with Boeing for multi-material aerospace parts for the 777X, Boeing’s newest commercial airplane; the 737 MAX, scheduled for first delivery in 2017; and the 787 Dreamliner.

MetalMaster furnace processes catalytic converter parts for a variety of industries

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a horizontal-loading MetalMaster vacuum furnace with two-bar gas quenching to a company in the Southwest United States for processing catalytic converter products, which are then used by such industries as aerospace, automotive and power generation.

Bodycote breaks ground for aluminum solution treatment furnace in California

Bodycote, England, held a ground breaking ceremony in February for a new aluminum solution treatment capability at its location in Westminster, California.

Registration opens for aerospace materials show

ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that early bird registration is open for the 27th AeroMat Conference and Exposition May 23-25 in Bellevue, Washington.

U.S. stainless steel sheet and strip producers file antidumping petitions against China

AK Steel Corp., ATI Flat Rolled Products, North American Stainless, and Outokumpu Stainless USA, the four principal U.S. producers of stainless steel sheet and strip, have filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions charging that unfairly traded imports of stainless steel sheet and strip from the People’s Republic of China are causing material injury to the domestic industry.