Category: Aerospace and Defense

Dual chamber furnace enables simultaneous hardening and tempering

Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., announces that a Red Devil dual chamber furnace has been added to the line of analytical equipment at Laboratory Testing Inc., Philadelphia.

The Bright World of Metals: Four trade fairs in Düsseldorf

“The Bright World of Metals” trade fair quartet in Düsseldorf, Germany, closed to extremely positive results, with 78,000 visitors from more than 120 countries.

ATI achieves PQ titanium product and process qualification

Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, has achieved qualification for its premium-titanium products for jet engine rotating parts made of premium-quality titanium sponge from ATI’s facility in Rowley, Utah.

AFC-Holcroft supplies two universal batch quench furnaces to Paulo Products

AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., has supplied two new Universal Batch Quench furnaces to Paulo Products Co., a commercial heat treater headquartered in St. Louis, to be installed at its Kansas City Division.

Carpenter agrees to supply powder metallurgy superalloys to Pratt & Whitney

Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., reports that operations will begin soon at its new superalloy powder facility in Alabama as part of a multi-level agreement with United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney Division.

Rocketdyne selects Seco-Warwick box furnace for heat treating and brazing rocket parts

Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that Aerojet Rocketdyne has updated its facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., with the turnkey installation of a Seco-Warwick custom-engineered box furnace for brazing and heat-treating rocket parts and assemblies.

Bodycote opens new heat treatment plant in Poland

Bodycote, South Windsor, Conn., recently opened a new heat treatment site in Wroclaw, Poland, as part of its expansion strategy in Eastern Europe.

Outokumpu now categorizes its stainless steels by properties instead of chemistry

Outokumpu Oy, Finland, has developed a way to categorize its wide range of stainless steel products by arranging them according to strength, hardness, machinability, heat resistance, and corrosion resistance.

NASA awards Boeing first commercial human spaceflight mission

NASA, Houston, has issued a task order as part of Boeing’s $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to include the company’s first-ever service flight to the International Space Station.

Conferences convene for successful Mega Show event

Aerospace and thermal spray professionals gathered for aerospace coating and materials information.