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Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, successfully vacuum hardened one of the largest aluminum extrusion liners ever produced by Lake Park Tool and Machine located in Youngstown Ohio. The 10 bar vacuum furnace was completed by Solar Manufacturing and is one of the fastest cooling large vacuum furnaces in the industry.

Seco/Warwick, Poland, has supplied a second Vector vacuum furnace to The Mint of Poland, a producer of circulation and collector coins for the National Bank of Poland. The historic 250 year-old-plus institutions will begin producing stamps and coins with the latest Seco/Warwick solution. The latest furnace is primarily intended to increase the efficiency of the mint.

The U.S. Department of Energy has a team of researchers exploring how a weld is put together atom by atom in order to unlock the key to making crack-free welds. The goal is to investigate the performance of welds used to build large thermal energy storage tanks at concentrating solar plants—facilities with vast networks of mirrors used to collect solar energy, some stretching several million square feet in size.

The temperature of thermomechanical treatment affects grain size via the transformation of recrystallized austenite and its subsequent transformation to ferrite and pearlite. Lowering the forging finish temperature causes the final grain size to become smaller and improves the impact toughness.

Nitrex Metal Inc., Montreal, has supplied the Turkish aluminum extrusion company, Alugen Aluminium, with a high-performance compact nitriding/nitrocarburizing system allowing the company to bring all manufacturing operations in-house for more optimal work planning and quality control. Founded in 2012, Alugen is a dynamic company and the only business of its kind in Turkey operating in a free trade zone, with customers in various European countries.

CAN-ENG Furnaces International LTD has been issued the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for the Roller Hearth Plate Quench and Temper system by the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The system is designed to heat treat a wide range of plates from 6 mm to 100 mm thickness x 3,000 mm wide and lengths up to 13,000 mm long in a wide variety of grades for commercial and non-commercial applications.