Linde AG, Munich, and Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., announce that the companies have entered into a definitive business combination agreement to come together under a new holding company called Linde, uniting Linde’s long-standing leadership in engineering and technology with Praxair’s efficient operating model.
Continue readingLindberg/MPH heavy-duty box furnace for processing glass reaches maximum 1500°C
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces the shipment of a heavy duty box furnace that reaches a maximum temperature of 1500°C for processing glass.
Continue readingSiemens wins 3D Printing Industry Award for its printed gas turbine blades
Siemens Inc., Germany, announces that it has won an International 3D Printing Industry Award in the category “3D Printing Application of the Year” for the first successful worldwide test of gas turbine blades produced via additive manufacturing.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Diffusivity of Nitrogen in Austenite
The diffusivity of nitrogen in ?N was determined from the stepwise denitriding kinetics of initially fully nitrided homogenous (stress-free) expanded austenite coupons.
Continue readingNucor to build 72-inch-wide hot band galvanizing/pickling line at its Kentucky mill
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., is investing an estimated $176 million to build a 72-inch-wide hot band galvanizing and pickling line at its sheet mill in Ghent, Kentucky.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships walk-in oven to medical equipment manufacturer
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped an electrically heated enhanced-duty walk-in series oven to a medical equipment manufacturer for sterilizing its products.
Continue readingElectrically heated aluminum melting furnace has melt rate of 50 pounds per hour
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated hand-tilting aluminum melting furnace to a manufacturer in the aluminum sand casting industry.
Continue readingMTS installs Echo remote lab monitoring technology in Brazilian research institute
MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., has completed the installation of the MTS Echo remote lab monitoring technology in the Civil Engineering Structural and Materials Laboratory at Rio de Janeiro’s Pontificia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio).
Continue readingCan-Eng to build 36-foot rotary hearth furnace for titanium aerospace forgings
Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been contracted to commission a turnkey 36 ft. diameter “pancake” style rotary hearth furnace for a leading North American aerospace supplier.
Continue readingSuper Systems automated system enables tight nitriding process control for Callies
Super Systems Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, reports that Callies Precision Engine Components has installed an SSI automated system with the ability to achieve tight nitriding process control using an easy-to-use recipe system that maintains tight tolerances on temperature, gas flow, and nitriding potential.
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