Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that Zenith Cutter, an Illinois manufacturing company, has purchased a Titan H6 vacuum furnace with two-bar gas quenching for its sister company Metkraft in Vietnam to process its industrial knives, cutter blades, and related accessories.
Continue readingSoft magnetic steel combines low coercivity with high permeability and resistivity
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., has developed Cartech Hypocore, a new soft magnetic steel that offers performance benefits between those found in Carpenter’s high-performance Hipercore family of high-cobalt magnetic alloys, and those of commercial silicon-based alloys.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven gas-fired walk-in batch oven treats industrial transformers
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired walk-in batch oven to an industrial transformer supplier for baking out transformers.
Continue readingAllcast to add 29,000 square feet of aluminum die-casting capability
Allcast LLC, Allenton, Wis., announces a $14 million, 29,000-square-foot addition to its current aluminum diecasting facility in the Town of Addison.
Continue readingBerkshire Hathaway to acquire Precision Castparts in cash transaction
The boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha, Neb., and Precision Castparts Corp., Portland, Ore., have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire all outstanding PCC shares for $235 per share in cash.
Continue readingOutokumpu stainless steel fuel tank weighs 3 kg less than plastic
Outokumpu Oy, Finland, announces that the stainless steel fuel tank developed by its engineers and TechROi Fuel Systems received the New Applications Award presented by the International Stainless Steel Forum in the “Best New Development” category at the ISSF Annual Conference in Hong Kong.
Continue readingBlimp outfitted with microscopes studies the sky
The world’s largest airship, the Skyship 600, made its way through the clouds on a month long journey across the U.S. A team of British scientists made the air trek in a blimp as part of a BBC expedition team to study the clouds and life activity in the air.
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