An article by one of the leading authorities on titanium brazing – vetted and accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed ASM Handbook, Volume 6, Welding, Brazing, and Soldering – is now available online in digital form. “Brazing of Conventional Titanium Alloys,” a comprehensive, fact-filled survey by industry expert Alexander E. Shapiro, Ph.D., Titanium Brazing Inc., offers in-depth analysis and practical advice on how to braze commercially pure and alloyed titanium with itself as well as with other materials such as copper, stainless steel, carbon steel, ceramics, graphite, and titanium aluminide.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres builds climate-controlled chamber for medical/aerospace heat treating
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, has constructed a climate-controlled chamber for the daily operation of its new all-metal hot-zoned vacuum furnace.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships walk-in oven to medical equipment manufacturer
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped an electrically heated enhanced-duty walk-in series oven to a medical equipment manufacturer for sterilizing its products.
Continue readingMedical manufacturer chooses Ipsen Titan vacuum heat treating system
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a Titan H2 vacuum heat-treating system with 2-bar gas quenching to Costa Rica, where it will be used to manufacture surgical components.
Continue readingSSI vacuum controller enables complete process traceability for Spectrum furnace
Spectrum Thermal Processing, Cranston, R.I., recently retrofitted a Super Systems (SSI) Series 9220 Vacuum Controller onto a CI Hayes vacuum oil quench furnace.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres adds new furnace with 5×10-6 Torr vacuum and all-moly hot zone
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, recently added a state-of-the-art vacuum furnace with an all-molybdenum hot zone having dimensions 24 x 24 x 36 inches.
Continue readingCarpenter buys Puris for its titanium powder capabilities
Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces that it has agreed to purchase substantially all of the assets and business of Puris LLC, a producer of titanium powder for additive manufacturing and advanced technology applications.
Continue readingIntermetallic Ti3Au is four times harder than pure titanium, more biocompatible
Researchers at Rice University, Houston, report that they have developed a titanium-gold-intermetallic (Ti3Au) said to be four times harder than titanium.
Continue readingMTS electrodynamic test systems feature intuitive and energy-efficient operation
MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., offers Acumen electrodynamic test systems, which are streamlined, highly intuitive platforms for dynamic and static testing.
Continue readingBuehler IsoMet High Speed precision cutter enables consistent metal sample sectioning
Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the IsoMet High Speed, a precision sectioning machine designed specifically to create consistent and efficient cuts in metals and other materials using diamond or abrasive blades.
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