Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, announces the next phase in the restructuring of its Flat Rolled Products (FRP) operations with the reduction of approximately one third of FRP’s salaried workforce through the elimination of over 250 positions.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres receives first MedAccred re-accreditation
Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., announces that it has become the first company to receive MedAccred critical process re-accreditation, an industry-managed critical process supply chain oversight program developed by leading medical device companies to improve device quality and enhance patient safety.
Continue readingHeat-treated powder metallurgy titanium alloy has higher strength, lower cost
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its research team has improved the strength of a titanium alloy by producing it via powder metallurgy and heat treating it at different temperatures, then quenching in cold water.
Continue readingAmorphous steel powder metallurgy alloy has highest impact resistance
The University of California San Diego announces that a team of engineers has developed and tested SAM2X5-630, a type of amorphous steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand impact without deforming permanently.
Continue readingH.C. Starck joins WPI Center for Heat Treating Excellence
H.C. Starck, Newton, Mass., announces that it has joined the team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an alliance between the industrial sector and university researchers that addresses short- and long-term needs in the heat treating and thermal processing industry.
Continue readingSelective separation sintering enables 3D printed parts to be made of Martian materials
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, announces that a novel 3D-printing process called selective separation sintering has won the NASA competition for a technology that could enable space travelers to build structures of crushed basalt rock and regolith found on Mars.
Continue reading3D-printed metal aircraft parts
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, entered into an agreement with Airbus, France, to supply 3D-printed metal parts for commercial aircraft.
Continue readingConveyor oven maximizes uniform adhesive cure on aluminum
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a natural-gas-fired three-zone curing conveyor oven to a leader in metal fabrication to cure a solvent-based adhesive that will be printed on a continuous corrugated aluminum web.
Continue readingContinuous roller hearth system heat treats aluminum automotive castings
Consolidated Engineering Company (CEC), Kennesaw, Ga., has received a purchase order for a continuous roller hearth T6 system with a water quench and age oven for the heat treatment of cast aluminum knuckles and other automotive castings.
Continue readingVertiQuench technology optimizes heat treatment for aluminum tubes
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., exhibited its VertiQuench aluminum solution heat treatment furnaces and aging systems at Tube 2016 in Dusseldorf.
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