Bruker’s Nano Surfaces Division, San Jose, Calif., announces a nanoscale scratch option for its NanoForce Nanomechanical Testing System.
Continue readingAmpco Pittsburgh acquires ASW Steel for its specialty steel products
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp., Carnegie, Pa., has acquired ASW Steel Inc., Welland, Ontario, a specialty steel producer with customers in the oil and gas, power generation, aerospace, transportation, and construction industries.
Continue readingArconic wins billion-dollar contract from Airbus for aluminum sheet and plate
Arconic, Pittsburgh, Pa., announces a multi-year contract with Airbus valued at approximately $1 billion, to supply aluminum sheet and plate for its highest-volume programs.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Iron-Nickel Precipitation-Hardenable Superalloys
It is important to note that tensile properties are influenced not only by heat treatment, but also by control of structure during thermomechanical processing.
Continue readingPdMetrics software now included with Ipsen Titan heat treat systems
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that its PdMetrics platform is now included standard with its Titan heat treating systems.
Continue readingRussian scientists develop strong shape memory alloy based on Fe-Ni-Co-Al
The Tomsk University Laboratory for Physics of High-Strength Crystals, Russia, announces that its researchers have designed a new high-strength iron-base shape-memory alloy whose properties are developed through a heat treatment technology that they have patented.
Continue readingAmerican Axle acquires Metaldyne Performance Group
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., Detroit, and Metaldyne Performance Group Inc., Southfield, Mich., announce that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which AAM will acquire MPG for approximately $1.6 billion in cash and stock, plus the assumption of $1.7 billion in net debt.
Continue readingElectric oxidizing oven heat treats Inconel trays for nuclear power fuel cell rods
Baker Furnace Inc., Yorba Linda, Calif., has shipped an electric oxidizing oven to a manufacturer of components for nuclear power plants to heat treat Inconel support trays that hold nuclear fuel cell rods in place.
Continue readingAlcoa completes separation from parent company Arconic
Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it has completed the separation from its parent company Alcoa Inc. (now named Arconic Inc.) and has begun operating as an independent, publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AA.
Continue readingBuehler IsoMet High Speed precision cutter enables consistent metal sample sectioning
Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the IsoMet High Speed, a precision sectioning machine designed specifically to create consistent and efficient cuts in metals and other materials using diamond or abrasive blades.
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