Category: Metal Products and Machinery

Proceq Equotip 550 portable instrument for hardness testing diagnoses roll imperfections

Proceq, Switzerland, introduces the Equotip 550 Leeb U roll hardness tester, designed for testing small, midsize, and large paper rolls, as well as thin-film, foil, and coated rolls.

Houghton International celebrates 150-year anniversary

Open House at Valley Forge Headquarters Kicks Off a Year of Worldwide Events

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.

Timken opens gear drive manufacturing facility in Houston

The Timken Co., North Canton, Ohio, has opened a new 27,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art gear drive manufacturing facility in Houston.

SSAB Hardox Tube 500 high strength steel tube provides extreme wear resistance

SSAB, Sweden, has launched the Hardox Tube 500 range of tubular high strength steel that provides the same hardness and toughness as Hardox steel wear plate, but in tubular form.

J.L. Becker installs car bottom furnace with duplicate combustion and control systems

J.L. Becker, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Company, Plymouth, Mich., has installed two similar furnace systems for a domestic alloy manufacturer.

Mitsubishi and Siemens start joint venture Primetals Technologies operations

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan, and Siemens AG, Germany, announce the beginning of operations of their joint venture Primetals Technologies Ltd., headquartered in London.

Reducing machining time for aerospace aluminum parts

A new 5-axis, 5-spindle XP aerospace profiler delivers “X-treme Productivity” in machining of structural aluminum parts.

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.

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.