Category: general

Bodycote opens new plants in Georgia and South Carolina

Bodycote, U.K., announces two new heat treatment plants in the southeastern United States: Covington, Ga., and Greenville, S.C.

One Minute Mentor: Relation Between Tempering Temperature and Hardness

The graphs show the relation between tempering temperature and hardness for D2 and D3 tool steels.

Seco-Warwick retrofits mesh belt furnace to increase productivity by 40%

Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that a major U.S.-based manufacturer is improving efficiency by retrofitting its mesh belt furnace originally commissioned by Seco-Warwick nearly 20 years ago.

Reliance acquires Tubular Steel for its specialty steel products

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Tubular Steel Inc., which stocks over 60,000 tons and ships over two million custom-cut lengths of pipe, tubing, and bar products annually.

Nucor Steel Louisiana DRI Plant to resume operations

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces that its direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Louisiana will resume operations by the end of January.

Lindberg/MPH ships gas-fired aluminum stack melting furnace to marine supplier

Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired aluminum stack melting furnace to a leading supplier in the marine industry.

One Minute Mentor: Tool Steel Tempering Practices

Multiple tempering is effective in decreasing the amount of austenite retained in A and D steels and is a common practice in heat-treating them.

Ipsen AvaC two-chamber gas/oil furnace doubles carbon availability

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped an AvaC (acetylene vacuum carburizing) two-chamber gas/oil quench vacuum furnace to a facility in Connecticut where it will be used to process sports equipment.

Leco hardness testing system includes advanced image recognition

Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the AMH55 hardness testing system with advanced image-recognition technology, which allows analysis of information not available with limited threshold-based methods.

High-strength magnesium-lithium alloy weighs half as much as aluminum

The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4?g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.