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Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., was recently awarded an order to supply a West Coast aerospace customer with four Titan H6 two-bar vacuum furnaces for heat treating additively manufactured parts in full-scale production.

Nitrogen diffused into the component during nitriding forms two zones: a compound layer and a diffusion zone.

GKN Powder Metallurgy, London, the world’s largest producer of metal powder and parts, has acquired Forecast 3D, Carlsbad, Calif., a leading U.S. specialist in plastic additive manufacturing offering a full range of services from concept to series production.

Engineers from Höganäs AB, Sweden, reported at the ITSC conference last May that laser cladding has been practiced for about 40 years, but did not reach a level of general acceptance in the industry until recently because other coating processes, such as PTA, thermal spray, and GMAW are well known and have a lower investment cost than lasers.

Carpenter Technology, Philadelphia, announces the grand opening of its Emerging Technology Center (ETC), a 500,000-square-foot additive manufacturing facility containing true end-to-end capabilities in Athens, Alabama.

An important development in the area of rapid tooling involves the use of massive thermal spray deposits of steel over ceramic molds to form tooling used in sheet-metal forming.