Category: Aerospace and Defense

Solar installs all-metal hot zone heat treating furnace for aerospace/medical alloys

Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., recently installed another unique, all-metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its facility in Souderton to increase its capacity for processing sensitive materials such as PH stainless, nickel-chrome-base superalloys, titanium, and ferritic and austenitic stainless steels.

ESA selects Siemens and Sonaca to develop additive manufacturing for aerospace parts

Siemens Digital Industries Software, Plano, Texas, announces that it has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop metal additive manufacturing designs for aerospace structures.

Sciaky to partner with Albert & Duval and Airbus for 3D printing of titanium aircraft parts

Sciaky Inc., Chicago, announces that it has entered into a research and development initiative to couple high-powered closed die forging with Sciaky’s electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) to develop new processes for manufacturing titanium alloy aircraft parts.

Carpenter to provide soft magnetic alloys for electric aircraft engine demonstrators

Carpenter Technology, Philadelphia, announced at the Paris Air Show its involvement with multiple OEMs to help with electric aircraft development by providing advanced soft magnetic alloy expertise and ultra-efficient electrical components for R&D and demonstrator motors and engines.

Safran, Oerlikon to invest $9 million in R&D lab and tech platform for aerospace coatings

Safran, Oerlikon, Limoges University, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) announced at the Paris Air Show that they have agreed to form two organizations to develop advanced surface treatments for aerospace applications.

Norsk Titanium completes Boeing Materials Allowables, 3D prints Questek titanium wire

Norsk Titanium, Norway, announces the successful completion of the latest phase of Boeing’s rigorous Material Allowables Program, which characterizes the titanium alloys manufactured by the AM rapid plasma deposition process.

Carpenter Technology, BMT Aerospace partner to produce additively manufactured parts

Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, and Belgium-based BMT Aerospace announce that they are cooperating in the development of an additively manufactured aerospace pinion made of Carpenter’s Custom 465 Stainless.

Solar Atmospheres 14-foot car-bottom air furnace can treat loads up to 30,000 pounds

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, recently installed a 14-foot long car bottom air furnace for the tempering of large tool steel components, as well as the age hardening processes of nickel-based alloys and precipitation hardenable stainless steels.

ITSC 2019 presentation: Solid-State Additive Manufacturing

Inovati, Santa Barbara, Calif., presented a discussion about the application of its impact consolidation Kinetic Metallization (KM) process to an advanced and superior 3D manufacturing technology.

Sintavia opens additive manufacturing facility for large-scale aerospace production

Sintavia LLC, Hollywood, Fla., has opened the doors to its new 55,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility, which is said to be the first of its kind in North America to offer large-scale AM production coupled with a robust aerospace quality management system.