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NanoAL LLC, Ashland, Mass., has announced that it has been awarded a 2021 Stage 1 Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for the “Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric applications” (CABLE) program.

SECO/WARWICK , Meadville, Pa., will deliver a Vector vacuum furnace to one of the largest European machinery groups. The device will be used for hardening and tempering processes, and its design has been customized in order to meet the needs of a special and demanding process which is the hardening of aviation steel.

Centorr Vacuum industries, Nashua, NH, has announced that they are building six high-temperature high-vacuum furnaces for precision heat treating, brazing, and annealing applications. The furnaces are from their Workhorse product line.

Nitrex Metal, Canada, has sold a second NX-815 E furnace to Elvial, one of the largest aluminum extrusion companies in Greece. This will help ELVIAL meet the needs created by their plant expansion and to increase their manufacturing capacity.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., has discovered a new and practical path toward manufacturing titanium with high ductile strength. The technique relies on low-temperature cryoforging to create nanotwinned titanium, which has 30% more ductility than normal titanium.

The as-quenched properties of powder metallurgy steels depend on the cooling medium and the steel's hardenability. Quenching in water, salt, brine, and water-based polymer solutions improves the rate of heat transfer, leading to a faster quench. However, in many cases, it accelerates corrosion due to the residual quenchant trapped in surface pores.