Category: Automobiles and Ground Transportation

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has recently been contracted to design and commission a 6600 pounds-per-hour continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system for Metex Heat Treating of Brampton, Ontario.

The BMW Group, Munich, has officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus, which brings together production of prototype and series parts under one roof, along with research into new 3D printing technologies, and associate training for the global rollout of tool-less production.

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has been recognized as a General Motors Supplier of the Year, an honor achieved by less than one percent of GM’s suppliers, and Nucor remains the only electric arc furnace steelmaker to do so.

SSAB, Stockholm, announces that Shape Corporation, Grand Haven, Michigan, has won the 2019 Swedish Steel Prize “for the groundbreaking use of martensitic steel in a 3D-formed tube for automotive roof rail applications.”

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces the receipt of an order for two Titan H6 two-bar vacuum furnaces from a rapidly emerging global automotive component manufacturer with locations in the United States and Asia.

The thermal energy of forged components can be effectively used to achieve microstructure with mechanical properties equal to or better than those achievable with traditional reheat quenching and tempering, annealing, and normalizing processes.

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from a research organization for the supply of a rapid heating furnace to be used for product development of lightweight hot-stamped and formed aluminum automotive components.