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Perryman, Pennsylvania, announced today it will more than double its current titanium melting capacity through the addition of two new furnaces. The new furnaces will include one Electron Beam (EB) and one Vacuum Arc Remelt (VAR). They will be located with Perryman’s existing melting facilities on its California, Pa., campus. Once complete, the company’s total melt capacity will exceed 26 million pounds, placing Perryman among the world’s largest melters of aerospace quality titanium.

Bodycote, UK, has opened a new heat treatment facility at Elgin, Ill. Bodycote is the world’s largest provider of heat treatments and specialist thermal processing services. The upgraded Elgin facility provides improved capabilities for the agricultural, mining, construction, automotive and various other manufacturing supply chains in the Upper Midwest region. The new state of the art facility in Elgin offers nitriding, Corr-I-Dur, nitrocarburizing and low pressure carburizing solutions.

Seco/Vacuum, Pennsylvania, has supplied the US Department of Defense with a vacuum heat treating furnace with integral oil quench, high pressure gas quench, and low pressure carburizing capabilities. As a critical supplier of aerospace components to the U.S. Department of Defense, this new vacuum oil quenching furnace will be able to handle any of the functions of the department’s existing heat treatment furnaces, either in a redundant role or to provide additional capacity to any of them.

Harper, Buffalo, N.Y., has announced a strategic alliance with Novonix Limited to develop specialized furnace technology designed to enhance synthetic graphite manufacturing process. This provides Novonix a local, established supplier of key equipment to produce greater quantities of material and scale quickly and cost effectively. This is, in turn, aimed at supporting electric vehicles and energy storage systems.

Oxide metallurgy enables the development of new grain-size control technology based on the use of inclusions such as MnS, oxides, and nitrides as precipitate nucleation sites. This has made possible the production of high-strength and high-toughness microalloyed steels, and contributed to the expansion of direct heat treatment applications even to highly stressed automotive suspension components.

Constellium’s facility at Bowling Green, Kentucky has been recognized as an “exemplary environmental steward” by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The plant produces flat-rolled aluminum auto body sheet products for the automotive market in North America and has a capacity of 100,000 metric tons annually.