Kobe Steel Ltd., Tokyo, announces that it will build a $46.7 million integrated production facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to manufacture aluminum extrusions for the automotive sector in the United States.
Continue readingCommercial Metals to build steel micromill in Oklahoma for long products
Commercial Metals Co., Irving, Texas, announces that it has begun construction of an electric-arc-furnace steel micromill in Durant, Okla., to produce long products by its continuous-continuous manufacturing process in which steel is melted, cast, and rolled from a single uninterrupted strand.
Continue readingIpsen Argos low-pressure carburizing plus 20-bar nitrogen quenching increases hardness
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that its Global Development Team in Kleve, Germany, recently celebrated the first build and testing of the Argos heat treating system, in which low-pressure carburizing combined with 20-bar nitrogen quenching reportedly provides metallurgical properties never before seen in gas quenching systems.
Continue readingNanosteel delivers first advanced high-strength steel sheet to General Motors
Nanosteel, Providence, has delivered its first advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheet to General Motors for initial evaluation of its role in vehicle lightweighting to meet rising global fuel-economy regulations.
Continue readingSSAB introduces five steel product families for specific applications
SSAB, Stockholm, introduces five steel product families tailored for production processes and maximized end-product performance: SSAB Domex, SSAB Boron, SSAB Form, SSAB Laser Plus, and SSAB Weathering.
Continue readingHeat-treated powder metallurgy titanium alloy has higher strength, lower cost
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its research team has improved the strength of a titanium alloy by producing it via powder metallurgy and heat treating it at different temperatures, then quenching in cold water.
Continue readingH.C. Starck joins WPI Center for Heat Treating Excellence
H.C. Starck, Newton, Mass., announces that it has joined the team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an alliance between the industrial sector and university researchers that addresses short- and long-term needs in the heat treating and thermal processing industry.
Continue readingContinuous roller hearth system heat treats aluminum automotive castings
Consolidated Engineering Company (CEC), Kennesaw, Ga., has received a purchase order for a continuous roller hearth T6 system with a water quench and age oven for the heat treatment of cast aluminum knuckles and other automotive castings.
Continue readingComposite foams of steel spheres embedded in aluminum insulate against heat
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, reports that novel lightweight composite metal foams made of materials such as steel spheres embedded in aluminum are more effective at insulating against heat than solid conventional metals such as steel.
Continue readingParker Trutec adds fourth AFC-Holcroft universal batch quench furnace
AFC Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that Parker Trutec Inc., Springfield, Ohio, has added a fourth UBQ 36-48-36 universal batch integral quench furnace to an existing line.
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