Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that Roger Jones, corporate president, has been nominated as a trustee for the ASM International Board of Trustees, effective October 2016.
Continue readingJuno carries nine instruments, a titanium vault, and 3D printed brackets
Developed by Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, Calif., the Juno spacecraft is hexagonal in shape, is 3.5 meters tall and 3.5 meters in diameter, and has a liftoff mass of about 8000 pounds.
Continue readingThree Lego aluminum astronauts travel to Jupiter on Juno
The Lego Group, Sweden, provided three 1.5-inch figurines milled out of a single block of aluminum to ride to Jupiter on the Juno spacecraft: the astronomer Galileo, and the Greek gods Juno and Jupiter.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Annealing of Austenitic Stainless Steels
The graph shows isothermal precipitation kinetics for detrimental ?/? phases for the 254 SMO (S31254), 904L, and 317LMN alloys.
Continue readingXiaoqing Cai Receives 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award
Xiaoqing Cai was presented the 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award by Dean Hoffmann (left) of Bodycote at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence on June 15 during their Spring meeting.
Continue readingSingle-chamber box furnace heat treats mold tooling for die maker
Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., announces that Century Die Co. LLC, Fremont, Ohio, has purchased a Lucifer Red Devil single-chamber box furnace for heat treating mold tooling.
Continue readingSecoWarwick Compact furnace hardens tool steels at pressures under 15 Bar
Seco/Warwick Retech, Meadville, Pa., introduces the Compact furnace, designed for hardening tool and other steels at gas pressures under 15 Bar.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft heat treating systems to process aluminum auto parts
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a Tier 1 automotive supplier has ordered a roller hearth homogenizing furnace and a solution heat treat line for the processing of aluminum auto parts.
Continue readingAtmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass
Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Highly Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels
Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels typically contain larger amounts of molybdenum to provide very good resistance to chloride corrosion.
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