Wall Colmonoy’s Aerobraze Engineered Technologies, Oklahoma City, announces that it has won a multi-year, multi-million dollar United States Air Force contract for the overhaul of the F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter primary and secondary heat exchangers.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: The Passive Layer in Stainless Steels
The presence of chromium causes the buildup of a chromium oxide layer that is impermeable and adherent to the alloy substrate, protecting it from any further oxidation or corrosion.
Continue readingMTS electrodynamic test systems feature intuitive and energy-efficient operation
MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., offers Acumen electrodynamic test systems, which are streamlined, highly intuitive platforms for dynamic and static testing.
Continue readingElectric pit furnace features two-stage gas nitriding system for high hardness
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated gas nitriding pit furnace with an ammonia dissociator system for heat treating steel parts.
Continue readingLucifer Furnaces dual-chamber furnace heat treats CPM high speed steel
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., reports that it has delivered a dual chamber high-temperature furnace to Compacting Tooling Inc. (CTI), McKeesport, Pa., to heat treat Crucible particle metallurgy (CPM) high speed steel.
Continue readingHarper rotary furnace processes iron phosphate powders for lithium-ion batteries
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has been awarded a contract for a high-volume rotary furnace system for drying and calcining advanced iron phosphate powders in lithium-ion batteries by Prayon Technologies, Belgium.
Continue readingArconic’s aluminum Micromill technology wins R&D 100 award
Arconic (formerly Alcoa), Pittsburgh, announces that R&D magazine has named Arconic’s aluminum Micromill technology an R&D 100 Award winner.
Continue readingAll-Metal Planes for Coast-to-Coast Transport
Classic article from July 1933 Metal Progress
Continue readingComputationally Optimized Heat Treatment Process wins R&D 100 Award
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, announces that its Computationally Optimized Homogenization Heat Treatment Process has been named a winner of a 2016 R&D 100 Award.
Continue readingCustomized MetalMaster heat treating furnaces process a range of materials
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that in the past few weeks it has shipped five customized MetalMaster vacuum furnaces to companies in locations around the world: Washington, South Carolina, Mexico, and China.
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