Category: general

FEI’s third-generation Helios DualBeam FIB/SEM adds workflow-specific configuration

FEI Co., Hillsboro, Ore., has released the third generation of its Helios NanoLab DualBeam FIB/SEM microscope, which provides unmatched image contrast and resolution, while at the same time adding a new, easy-to-use user interface.

Renault Samsung develops magnesium sheet alloy for auto body applications

Renault Samsung Motors, Korea, announces that its engineers have succeeded in developing magnesium-base sheet metal for vehicles together with POSCO, and will be the first car company in the world to use it in mass-produced automobiles.

Multi-element high-entropy metal alloys crystallize as a single phase

The Department of Energy’ s Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Laboratories announce that a new concept in metallic alloy design – called “high?entropy alloys” – has yielded a multiple-element material that is strong at cryogenic temperatures.

Ipsen builds small-footprint heat treating system for Mercedes-Benz

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., developed and delivered a special atmosphere three-row pusher heat treating system that required comparatively little floor space and power consumption for a Mercedes-Benz facility.

Flexible grid and segmented silver fingers cut cost and weight in solar panels

GT Advanced Technologies Inc., Merrimack, N.J., announces that solar modules incorporating its new Merlin metallization and interconnect technology have met the requirements of several important PV industry certification standards.

Austempering firm Applied Process takes on equity partner

Applied Process Inc., Livonia, Mich., has taken on a majority interest equity partner, High Street Capital of Chicago.

Battelle elects ASM Fellow Subra Suresh to its Board of Directors

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, announces the election of Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh to its Board of Directors.

Two EFD Induction systems ordered for brazing generator stator bars and windings

EFD Induction, Skien, Norway, announces that one of Japan’s largest manufacturing multinationals has recently ordered two of its Minac mobile induction heating systems.

Siemens launches vacuum oxygen decarburization system at Voestalpine Giesserei Linz

Siemens Metals Technologies, Vienna, announces that a vacuum oxygen decarburization system with a capacity of 50 metric tons has commenced operation at Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH.

Seco-Warwick gas-quench furnace equipped with PreNit to heat treat dies and tool steels

Seco-Warwick Corp., Meadville, Pa., announces that a commercial heat treater in the United States has purchased a 15-bar high-pressure gas quench furnace for its facility in the southeast.