Kobe Steel Ltd., Tokyo, announces that it will build a $46.7 million integrated production facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to manufacture aluminum extrusions for the automotive sector in the United States.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Tempering Corrosion-Resistant Tool Steels
During tempering, the combination of properties such as hardness, toughness, and corrosion resistance, as well as residual stresses, can be adjusted within a wide range
Continue readingHighlights of the 2016 ASM/IFHTSE Congress
The conference was well attended, with 171 heat treaters and 20 exhibitors from 20 countries and every continent, while the keynote speakers were industry leaders who covered topics of great importance to advancing heat treating technology and expanding applications.
Continue readingOlympus videoscope provides resilient insertion tube and ultrabright illumination
Olympus Corp., Tokyo, has launched its new Iplex NX videoscope, featuring excellent image quality, maneuverability, and intuitive operation to streamline the location, identification, and measurement of previously undetectable flaws.
Continue readingASM forms strategic alliance with SVC
The new strategic alliance brings the complementary strengths of both organizations together to better serve their global members and the community at large.
Continue readingCommercial Metals to build steel micromill in Oklahoma for long products
Commercial Metals Co., Irving, Texas, announces that it has begun construction of an electric-arc-furnace steel micromill in Durant, Okla., to produce long products by its continuous-continuous manufacturing process in which steel is melted, cast, and rolled from a single uninterrupted strand.
Continue readingIpsen Argos low-pressure carburizing plus 20-bar nitrogen quenching increases hardness
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that its Global Development Team in Kleve, Germany, recently celebrated the first build and testing of the Argos heat treating system, in which low-pressure carburizing combined with 20-bar nitrogen quenching reportedly provides metallurgical properties never before seen in gas quenching systems.
Continue readingSpace telescope boasts a dozen flight mirrors
One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Effect of Cooling Rate on Toughness of Mold Steels
This graph shows the effect of different cooling rates on the toughness properties (un-notched samples) of AISI 420 and the nitrogen alloyed M333 (AISI 420 Mod).
Continue readingRick Sisson Wins Trustees Research & Creative Scholarship Award
ASM Fellow Richard D. Sisson has received Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 2016 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship.
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