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Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped three natural-gas-fired box furnaces to a parts manufacturer for the oil and gas industry to develop process control requirements for heat-treating and stress relieving of underground mining/drill heads.

Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from an India based conglomerate to design, manufacture, install, and commission an aluminum automotive casting heat treatment system for a new greenfield facility in South Carolina.

This topic will be discussed by William J. Bernard III of Surface Combustion at the Thermal Processing in Motion conference. The case hardening process known as ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) has seen increased interest recently in the transportation and mobility industries due its ability to impart strength and wear resistance to steels and cast irons, with the added inherent benefit of less part distortion as compared to austenitic processes such as carburizing and carbonitriding. There are

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its engineers have developed and successfully tested a novel process called friction stir dovetailing that enables joining thick plates of aluminum and steel.

Bodycote, England, the world’s largest provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, announces that it has signed a 15-year contract with Rolls-Royce’s Civil Aerospace business.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., announces that a team led by its researchers has developed an alloy of iron, chromium, and aluminum that does not contain zirconium.