Category: general

Three Lego aluminum astronauts travel to Jupiter on Juno

The Lego Group, Sweden, provided three 1.5-inch figurines milled out of a single block of aluminum to ride to Jupiter on the Juno spacecraft: the astronomer Galileo, and the Greek gods Juno and Jupiter.

One Minute Mentor: Annealing of Austenitic Stainless Steels

The graph shows isothermal precipitation kinetics for detrimental ?/? phases for the 254 SMO (S31254), 904L, and 317LMN alloys.

Xiaoqing Cai Receives 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award

Xiaoqing Cai was presented the 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award by Dean Hoffmann (left) of Bodycote at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence on June 15 during their Spring meeting.

Single-chamber box furnace heat treats mold tooling for die maker

Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., announces that Century Die Co. LLC, Fremont, Ohio, has purchased a Lucifer Red Devil single-chamber box furnace for heat treating mold tooling.

SecoWarwick Compact furnace hardens tool steels at pressures under 15 Bar

Seco/Warwick Retech, Meadville, Pa., introduces the Compact furnace, designed for hardening tool and other steels at gas pressures under 15 Bar.

AFC-Holcroft heat treating systems to process aluminum auto parts

AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a Tier 1 automotive supplier has ordered a roller hearth homogenizing furnace and a solution heat treat line for the processing of aluminum auto parts.

Atmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass

Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.

One Minute Mentor: Highly Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels

Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels typically contain larger amounts of molybdenum to provide very good resistance to chloride corrosion.

New GE Aviation facilities to produce SiC fibers and ceramic matrix composites

GE Aviation, Cincinnati, has broken ground for two materials factories near Huntsville: One facility will produce SiC ceramic fiber, while the other will use SiC ceramic fiber to make tape for ceramic matrix composite components in jet engines and land-based gas turbines.

NioCorp and IBC to collaborate on scandium-containing aluminum alloys

NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.