Sandvik Group, Sweden, announces that a new Product Area called Additive Manufacturing will be formed within Sandvik Machining Solutions.
Continue readingQuestek to develop titanium, aluminum, steel alloys for military AM parts
Questek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., was recently awarded six separate projects from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army to develop technologies and design new alloys specifically tailored to the unique processing conditions and material-related challenges of additive manufacturing.
Continue readingDual chamber furnace designed for heat treating high-speed steels
Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., has delivered a dual chamber furnace built with 12-gauge sheet steel and reinforced throughout, designed for heat treating high-speed steels.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Active Screen Plasma Nitriding
Recently, a process called active screen plasma (ASP) has been developed for the purpose of minimizing or avoiding some of the limitations of conventional plasma nitriding.
Continue readingIntermetallic Ti3Au is four times harder than pure titanium, more biocompatible
Researchers at Rice University, Houston, report that they have developed a titanium-gold-intermetallic (Ti3Au) said to be four times harder than titanium.
Continue readingAlcoa secures contract to export bauxite from its Western Australia mine
Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals has secured its first major third-party contract to supply approximately 400,000 bone dry metric tons (bdmt) of bauxite from its Huntly mine in Western Australia, furthering Alcoa’s strategy to grow its third-party bauxite business.
Continue readingBuehler Diamet hardness testing software features automatic symmetry calculation
Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., offers Diamet hardness testing software, which includes an automatic symmetry calculation for both Knoop and Vickers as a standard feature.
Continue readingPrecision-controlled pit furnace tempers hardened steel dies
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that Dorssers Inc. has purchased two of its pit style air temper furnaces to process pellet dies.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Plasma Nitriding
Plasma nitriding is a surface-hardening process in which glow-discharge technology introduces nascent (atomic) nitrogen into the surface of a metal part for subsequent inward diffusion
Continue readingElectron beam additive manufacturing system to build titanium aircraft parts for Airbus
Sciaky Inc., Chicago, announces that Airbus has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art electron beam additive manufacturing EBAM 110 System to build large structural parts of titanium.
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