Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that Lockheed Martin has awarded it a contract to supply titanium plate and billet for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft program, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter.
Continue readingBodycote expands capacity for treating specialty stainless steels in Ohio
Bodycote, England, announces that it has expanded capacity for specialty stainless steel processes (S3P) at its facility in London, Ohio, and is building a new S3P facility in North Carolina that is to open in 2016.
Continue readingHarper’s three-meter PAN oxidation oven provides uniform air velocity
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that initial data on its three-meter wide production-scale oxidation oven for carbon fiber manufacturing shows outstanding performance for key metrics, including air-velocity uniformity and temperature uniformity.
Continue readingBoeing opens advanced R&D center for composite and fuselage manufacturing
Boeing, North Charleston, S.C., has opened a 104,000-sq. ft. Research & Technology-South Carolina center, to lead the company’s research and development efforts in advanced manufacturing of composite fuselage and propulsion systems.
Continue readingAlcoa to separate into Upstream Company and Value-Add Company
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that it will separate into two companies: the Upstream Company, which will consist of the Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminum, Casting, and Energy businesses; and the Value-Add Company, which will include the current Global Rolled Products, Engineered Products and Solutions, and Transportation and Construction Solutions.
Continue readingAtomic structure model enables prediction of metal combinations that can form metallic glasses
Australia’s University of New South Wales announces that a research team has developed a method for predicting the combinations of metals that will produce metallic glass alloys.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres new Southeast plant receives Nadcap accreditation for heat treating
Solar Atmospheres Southeast, Greenville, S.C.
Has received Nadcap (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) heat treating accreditation only three months after opening by demonstrating its ongoing commitment to quality.
Constellium to invest $35 million in Ravensport plant for advanced aluminum alloys
Constellium N.V., Amsterdam, announces that it will invest $35 million at its Ravenswood aluminum plant in West Virginia to improve quality and increase output production across the entire product range.
Continue readingVac Aero sells vertical vacuum furnace to U.S. aerospace components manufacturer
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, reports that it has sold a VAV5448 HV-2 vacuum furnace to a major U.S. manufacturer of components for the aerospace industry, thereby increasing heat-treating capacity to meet growing demand.
Continue readingNASA engineers begin welding Orion spacecraft
The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans announces that engineers have welded together the first two segments of the Orion crew module that will fly atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket on a mission beyond the far side of the moon.
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