Category: general

Struers introduces high-capacity Rockwell and entry level Vickers hardness testers

Struers, Cleveland, Ohio, announces that it will launch nine new Duramin hardness testers this year, beginning with the Duramin-170, a high-capacity hardness tester; and the Duramin-4, an entry level Vickers hardness tester.

Siemens and Chromalloy form joint venture to cast turbine blade components

Siemens AG, Germany, and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., have entered a partnership to form a new joint venture called Advanced Airfoil Components, which will cast turbine blade and vane components for power generation.

One Minute Mentor: Solubility of Nitrogen in Expanded Austenite

The graph shows the solubility of nitrogen in expanded austenite (?N) as a function of the imposed nitrogen activity (aN) in a gas mixture of NH3 and H2 for the stainless steels and temperatures indicated in the legend.

Retech Systems develops hybrid plasma arc melting system for titanium aluminides

Retech Systems LLC, Ukiah, Calif., reports that, after years of research and development between Retech and partner Ti-Solutions GmbH of Germany, Retech has been granted patents for a hybrid plasma-arc melting plus cold wall induction system for titanium aluminides.

Baker Furnace heavy-duty industrial oven pre-heats aluminum ingots

Baker Furnace, Brea, Calif., announces the shipment of a gas-fired batch oven for pre-heating large aluminum ingots that will be forged into aerospace parts at an aluminum forging company.

Lindberg/MPH ships aluminum melting and holding equipment for die casting

Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces the shipment of an aluminum central melting furnace that holds 62,000 pounds of aluminum and has a melt rate of 6000 pounds per hour.

Wisconsin Oven steam-heated ovens have temperature uniformity of ±5°F at 240°F

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped two steam-heated batch ovens to a leading manufacturer of industrial products for curing a water-based adhesive applied to rolls of sandpaper.

Hybrid technology combines 3D printing, traditional grinding to produce ship propeller

The Port of Rotterdam announces that its Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing Lab (RamLab) is working with Autodesk, San Rafael, Calif., to build a large ship propeller by combining 3D printing with traditional milling and grinding.

Braidy Industries to invest $1.3 billion to build aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky

Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Kentucky, announces that it will spend $1.3 billion to build an auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminum rolling mill, the nation’s first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in over three decades.

One Minute Mentor: Physical Metallurgy of Expanded Austenite

The microstructural feature responsible for the favorable technological properties resulting from low-temperature gaseous thermochemical treatment is a supersaturation of nitrogen and/or carbon in austenite. This is called expanded austenite.