Spray Tips: Torch Manipulation Variables
Thermal spraying is a line-of-sight process; therefore, the substrate coating area should preferably be normal (at 90 degrees) to the spray stream.
PG Technologies relocates headquarters to Mississippi, adds employees
PG Technologies LLC, a Praxair Surface Technologies and GE Aviation joint venture, will soon exceed initial workforce projections in Ellisville, Mississippi, the city to which it recently moved its headquarters from Indianapolis.
Powder coating conveyor oven preheats and coats steel couplings for oil and gas equipment
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has delivered a natural-gas-fired conveyor oven to a supplier of the oil and gas industry for the preheating and powder coating of steel couplings.
Oerlikon Balzers receives Airbus Qualified Supplier status for its Balinit WC/C coating
Oerlikon Balzers, Switzerland, announces that it has received Qualified Supplier status from Airbus for its two customer centers in Great Britain and France for copper-alloy substrate coatings using Balinit C, a tungsten carbide/carbon coating.
GKN Powder Metallurgy and EOS partner to advance metal additive manufacturing
GKN Powder Metallurgy, DuBois, Pa., has formed a strategic partnership with EOS GmbH, Germany, with the goal of designing a new, high-productivity process for laser-based metal additive manufacturing to reduce production time by 70% and overall cost by up to 50%.
Seco gas nitriding furnace enables production of high-performance steel surfaces
Seco Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., reports that a growing American manufacturer has recently ordered a new precision gas nitriding furnace with ZeroFlow.