Category: News Articles

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces that it recently shipped an electrically heated cyclone pit furnace to a steel heat treater for processing aircraft components.

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., announces that, because of the opening of a new facility and record sales, it is hiring for a variety of positions in the skilled trades and engineering fields.

United Process Controls (UPC), Milwaukee, Wis., reports that it has delivered an Atmosphere Engineering EndoFlex endothermic gas generator to Brazilian fastener maker Jomarca.

Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., recently installed a state-of-the-art Solar Manufacturing horizontal internal quench vacuum furnace that is 74 inches in diameter by 72 inches deep at its Clearview Road facility.

In the late 1970s, the U.S. Air Force sponsored development work for improved submarine hull steels. From this work, AF 1410 evolved as an ultrahigh-strength steel with particularly high fracture toughness. AF 1410 is typically manufactured via vacuum induction melting (VIM) followed by vacuum arc remelting (VAR) to achieve the required low levels of impurities.

Constellium N.V., Amsterdam, announces the grand opening of its new automotive structures plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to supply aluminum crash management systems and structural components to automakers in Mexico.