Category: News Articles

Nitrex Heat Treating Services, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, announces a new plant investment aimed at expanding its commercial heat treat facility located in Aurora, just west of Chicago.

The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Dayton, Ohio, and America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, announce that QuesTek Innovations has won the Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge, “Macro-scale Structure-to-Properties Predictions,” to improve the understanding and modeling capability of the complex linkage of process-structure-performance of AM-built components.

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electric mesh-belt conveyor furnace with a nitrogen/hydrogen blend atmosphere to a microelectronics manufacturer in the United States.

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it is establishing an Atmosphere Technology Excellence Center in Kleve, Germany, and a Vacuum Technology Excellence Center near Rockford, Illinois, in response to customer demand for expanded technical services, identical metallurgical outcomes worldwide, and solutions for processing newly developed materials.

Instron, Norwood, Mass., introduces AverEdge32, its latest innovation for measuring transverse sheet metal strain with high accuracy.

Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces an advancement in capability for the company’s LENS directed energy deposition systems relative to additive manufacturing and repair of aluminum alloys.