Category: general

Siemens wins 3D Printing Industry Award for its printed gas turbine blades

Siemens Inc., Germany, announces that it has won an International 3D Printing Industry Award in the category “3D Printing Application of the Year” for the first successful worldwide test of gas turbine blades produced via additive manufacturing.

One Minute Mentor: Diffusivity of Nitrogen in Austenite

The diffusivity of nitrogen in ?N was determined from the stepwise denitriding kinetics of initially fully nitrided homogenous (stress-free) expanded austenite coupons.

Nucor to build 72-inch-wide hot band galvanizing/pickling line at its Kentucky mill

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., is investing an estimated $176 million to build a 72-inch-wide hot band galvanizing and pickling line at its sheet mill in Ghent, Kentucky.

Wisconsin Oven ships walk-in oven to medical equipment manufacturer

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped an electrically heated enhanced-duty walk-in series oven to a medical equipment manufacturer for sterilizing its products.

Electrically heated aluminum melting furnace has melt rate of 50 pounds per hour

Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated hand-tilting aluminum melting furnace to a manufacturer in the aluminum sand casting industry.

MTS installs Echo remote lab monitoring technology in Brazilian research institute

MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., has completed the installation of the MTS Echo remote lab monitoring technology in the Civil Engineering Structural and Materials Laboratory at Rio de Janeiro’s Pontificia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio).

Can-Eng to build 36-foot rotary hearth furnace for titanium aerospace forgings

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been contracted to commission a turnkey 36 ft. diameter “pancake” style rotary hearth furnace for a leading North American aerospace supplier.

Super Systems automated system enables tight nitriding process control for Callies

Super Systems Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, reports that Callies Precision Engine Components has installed an SSI automated system with the ability to achieve tight nitriding process control using an easy-to-use recipe system that maintains tight tolerances on temperature, gas flow, and nitriding potential.

Ultratech dual-beam laser spike anneal systems to treat FinFET for 10-nm nodes

Ultratech Inc., San Jose, Calif., announces that it has received a multiple system follow-on order for its LSA101 dual-beam laser spike anneal systems for expansion of 10-nm FinFET production.

Oxford Instruments to sell Industrial Analysis business to Hitachi High-Technologies

Oxford Instruments plc, England, announces that it has agreed to sell its Industrial Analysis business to Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. for a consideration of $100 million on a cash and debt-free basis.