Category: general

Dual chamber furnace designed for heat treating high-speed steels

Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., has delivered a dual chamber furnace built with 12-gauge sheet steel and reinforced throughout, designed for heat treating high-speed steels.

One Minute Mentor: Active Screen Plasma Nitriding

Recently, a process called active screen plasma (ASP) has been developed for the purpose of minimizing or avoiding some of the limitations of conventional plasma nitriding.

Intermetallic Ti3Au is four times harder than pure titanium, more biocompatible

Researchers at Rice University, Houston, report that they have developed a titanium-gold-intermetallic (Ti3Au) said to be four times harder than titanium.

Alcoa secures contract to export bauxite from its Western Australia mine

Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals has secured its first major third-party contract to supply approximately 400,000 bone dry metric tons (bdmt) of bauxite from its Huntly mine in Western Australia, furthering Alcoa’s strategy to grow its third-party bauxite business.

Buehler Diamet hardness testing software features automatic symmetry calculation

Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., offers Diamet hardness testing software, which includes an automatic symmetry calculation for both Knoop and Vickers as a standard feature.

Precision-controlled pit furnace tempers hardened steel dies

Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that Dorssers Inc. has purchased two of its pit style air temper furnaces to process pellet dies.

One Minute Mentor: Plasma Nitriding

Plasma nitriding is a surface-hardening process in which glow-discharge technology introduces nascent (atomic) nitrogen into the surface of a metal part for subsequent inward diffusion

Electron beam additive manufacturing system to build titanium aircraft parts for Airbus

Sciaky Inc., Chicago, announces that Airbus has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art electron beam additive manufacturing EBAM 110 System to build large structural parts of titanium.

Linde and Praxair announce intention to merge

Linde AG, Germany, and Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., announce that the companies intend to combine in a merger of equals that would bring together two leading companies in the global industrial gas industry, leveraging the proven strengths of each.

CVD Equipment acquires chemical vapor deposition technology from Tantaline

CVD Equipment Corp., Central Islip, N.Y., has purchased certain tantalum chemical vapor deposition technology formerly owned by Tantaline A/S, Nordborg, Denmark, and now owned by a CVD subsidiary operating under the name Tantaline CVD A/S.