Category: general

Rocketdyne selects Seco-Warwick box furnace for heat treating and brazing rocket parts

Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that Aerojet Rocketdyne has updated its facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., with the turnkey installation of a Seco-Warwick custom-engineered box furnace for brazing and heat-treating rocket parts and assemblies.

Bodycote opens new heat treatment plant in Poland

Bodycote, South Windsor, Conn., recently opened a new heat treatment site in Wroclaw, Poland, as part of its expansion strategy in Eastern Europe.

Worthington’s TWB Company to open tailor welded blank facility in Nashville

Worthington Industries, Cleveland, announces that its tailor welded blanking joint venture, TWB Company LLC, is opening a new facility in Nashville, Tenn.

Alcoa 6013 aerospace aluminum chosen by Samsung for Galaxy S6 smartphone

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, is supplying a high-strength, aerospace-grade aluminum to Samsung for its latest smartphones — the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge.

Solar Atmospheres Southeast opens in South Carolina

Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that its new plant in Greenville, S.C., has officially opened its doors for business, bringing the first furnace online the first week of May.

Lei Zhang wins 2015 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award

Lei Zhang, a Ph.D. student in materials science engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the winner of the 2015 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award.

Roger Jones receives 2015 George Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award

Roger A. Jones, corporate president of Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., is the recipient of the 2015 George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award.

Outokumpu now categorizes its stainless steels by properties instead of chemistry

Outokumpu Oy, Finland, has developed a way to categorize its wide range of stainless steel products by arranging them according to strength, hardness, machinability, heat resistance, and corrosion resistance.

NASA awards Boeing first commercial human spaceflight mission

NASA, Houston, has issued a task order as part of Boeing’s $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to include the company’s first-ever service flight to the International Space Station.

ThyssenKrupp supplies elevators and stainless steel to One World Trade Center

ThyssenKrupp, Germany, has installed stainless steel for the spire of the tower, and the fastest elevators in North and South America at One World Trade Center in New York.