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SSAB incorporates Rautaruukki to create a global steel company

SSAB, Stockholm, Sweden, announces that Rautaruukki became part of SSAB on July 29, 2014.

Centorr Vacuum Industries ships second-generation furnace design to Setra Systems

Centorr Vacuum Industries, Nashua, N.H., announces that it has shipped its first redesigned flagship Workhorse Vacuum furnace to Setra Systems for its U.S. production facility.

AFC-Holcroft to install UBQ batch furnace line at fastener manufacturer’s facility

AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., is to install a complete UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) furnace line in one of Fastenal Company’s plants in Winona, Minnesota.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum acquires Northern Illinois Steel Supply

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the capital stock of Northern Illinois Steel Supply Co. (NIS), a value-added distributor and fabricator of a variety of steel and nonferrous metal products.

Siemens builds vacuum oxygen decarburization plant at Voestalpine Giesserei

Siemens Metals Technologies, Austria, has completed a vacuum oxygen decarburization (VOD) plant with a capacity of 50 metric tons at Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH.

ASM Fellow Paul Bania receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Titanium Association

ASM Fellow Dr. Paul J. Bania, titanium metallurgist, researcher, and inventor, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Titanium Association during the organization’s 30th annual conference in Chicago, September 21-24, 2014.

HTS member Michael Pershing receives CHTE award for outstanding service

Each year CHTE acknowledges the accomplishments of an individual who, in the judgment of the board, has made significant, commendable, and long-standing contributions to the promotion of CHTE.

Transforming waste into a resource

Essentium Materials, College Station, Tex., converts coconut husk fibers into materials for cars and homes.

Hysitron receives R&D 100 award for system to test materials in extreme environments

Hysitron Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., has received an R&D 100 Award for its xSol high-temperature stage, which enables high-resolution nanomechanical measurements over a broad temperature and humidity range.

GE Aviation to mass-produce fuel nozzle via additive manufacturing at Alabama facility

GE Aviation, Cincinnati, Ohio, has announced plans to bring high-volume additive manufacturing to its facility in Auburn, Alabama.