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German furnace builder develops annealing furnace with improved convection heat transfer

Sarnes Ingenieure GmbH & Co., Germany, reports that it has developed a new annealing furnace system for heat treatment.

Lake City Heat Treating acquires VFS vacuum furnace

Lake City Heat Treating Corp., Warsaw, Ind., has acquired a VFS Model HIQ3836-6 furnace that can achieve vacuums of 10-6 torr and process temperatures up to 2400°F with a workload size up to 24 x 24 x 36 in.

Composite curing oven to support aerospace research at University of South Carolina

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., has shipped a composite curing batch oven to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research at the University of South Carolina.

British universities form consortium to optimize steel for railroad track

The University of Huddersfield, England, announces that its researchers will take part in a new $3 million railway steel development project backed by major funding groups.

Cerium-cobalt alloy added to NdFeB magnets raises Curie temperature, cuts cost

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, reports that ASM Fellow Karl A. Gschneidner and a team of researchers have developed a low-cost cerium-cobalt alloy that can be added to neodymium-iron-boron to improve magnetic properties in rare-earth magnets.

Microporous copper foam with relative density of 37% is effective heat sink

Goodfellow, England, offers a microporous copper foam with pore sizes between 300 and 600 µm and a relative density of around 37%.

Center for Heat Treating Excellence announces June meeting

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., announces that the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) and the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) will hold their spring meeting June 2 -3.

23rd International Congress of Advanced Thermal Processing 2016 Dates Announced

Call for papers submission is now open.

Oxford Instruments introduces two new handheld XRF analyzers

Oxford Instruments, U.K., has added two new models to its X-Met8000 series of handheld XRF analyzers: the X-Met8000 Optimum and X-Met8000 Smart.

SSAB launches Strenx brand for high-strength steels

SSAB, Stockholm, has launched Strenx, a new high-strength structural steel product brand that includes Optim, Weldox, and Domex steels that are well-known trademarks of SSAB and the former Ruukki.