Category: general

One Minute Mentor: Steps for Hardening of Tools as a Function of Time, Temperature, and Phase Transformation

After hot forming, tool steel usually is submitted to heat treatment processes that may be split into two major steps.

LIFT co-locates at Detroit headquarters

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) will open a scale-up facility at LIFT.

Bodycote expands capacity for treating specialty stainless steels in Ohio

Bodycote, England, announces that it has expanded capacity for specialty stainless steel processes (S3P) at its facility in London, Ohio, and is building a new S3P facility in North Carolina that is to open in 2016.

Harper’s three-meter PAN oxidation oven provides uniform air velocity

Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that initial data on its three-meter wide production-scale oxidation oven for carbon fiber manufacturing shows outstanding performance for key metrics, including air-velocity uniformity and temperature uniformity.

Nitrex low-pressure carburizing furnace features precise parameter control

Nitrex Metal Inc., Quebec, began operation of a new low-pressure carburizing (LPC) furnace at its plant in Franklin, Indiana.

Can-Eng to build automated system for heat treating diecast aluminum auto parts

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been contracted to design, manufacture, and commission an automated system for the heat treatment of thin-walled high pressure diecast aluminum automotive structural components.

One Minute Mentor: Heat Treatment Applied to Tool Steels

After hot forming, tool steel usually is exposed to a heat treatment process done to produce a low-hardness condition.

Automotive expansion meets strong demand for aluminum vehicles

Alcoa Inc., New York, completed an expansion at its Tennessee facility dedicated to supplying aluminum sheet to the automotive industry.

New technique could make cement manufacturing carbon-neutral

Concrete is found all over cities and stretches across the land in a vast network of highways

Boeing opens advanced R&D center for composite and fuselage manufacturing

Boeing, North Charleston, S.C., has opened a 104,000-sq. ft. Research & Technology-South Carolina center, to lead the company’s research and development efforts in advanced manufacturing of composite fuselage and propulsion systems.