One Minute Mentor: Resistivity of Maraging Steels
Electrical resistivity of maraging alloys decreases as the aging time increases, up to approximately 100 hours.
JW Aluminum builds new plant for producing sheet; Hazelett to supply casting machine
JW Aluminum, Mount Holly, S.C., has started construction of a new 220,000-square-foot building at its flat-rolled aluminum plant, which will feature a Hazelett twin-belt continuous casting machine.
Advanced Heat Treat expands headquarters to add nitriding/nitrocarburizing units
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), Waterloo, Iowa, has officially broken ground on a new 15,000 square foot expansion at its corporate headquarters.
Air Products gas-density sensor detects hydrogen concentration in furnace atmosphere
Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., introduces its new gas-density sensor, which is designed to measure hydrogen concentration in sintering furnaces in which a nitrogen-hydrogen blend serves as the hot-zone atmosphere.
Enhanced-duty walk-in oven heats 1300 pounds of aluminum from 70 to 480°F in two hours
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Mich., has manufactured a natural-gas-fired enhanced-duty walk-in oven for a transportation technology company that heat treats baskets of aluminum parts.
U.S. Steel to restart second blast furnace to support increasing demand
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it will restart the second of two blast furnaces (‘A’ blast furnace) at its Granite City Works, an integrated steelmaking plant in Granite City, Ill.