GE Aviation, Cincinnati, has broken ground for two materials factories near Huntsville: One facility will produce SiC ceramic fiber, while the other will use SiC ceramic fiber to make tape for ceramic matrix composite components in jet engines and land-based gas turbines.
Continue readingNioCorp and IBC to collaborate on scandium-containing aluminum alloys
NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.
Continue readingCan-Eng installs 6000 lb/hr continuous mesh belt heat treating furnace
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has installed and commissioned a 6000 lb/hr continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system for the hardening and tempering of high-volume fasteners at Metex Heat Treating Ltd., Brampton, Ontario.
Continue readingIntegral quench furnace system provides solution for die forging heat treatment
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a Pacemaker integral quench furnace with an endothermic gas generator to a company in the die forging industry.
Continue readingZEISS partners with ASM International to supply microscopes and collaborate on training
Instruments to be used for training on high precision manufacturing and materials testing techniques
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Time-Temperature Sensitization Curves for Austenitic Stainless Steel
The graph shows a Time-Temperature-Sensitization diagram (TTS) for 304 austenitic stainless steel with various carbon contents.
Continue readingLucifer Red Devil box furnace heat treats small loads
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., recently delivered a bench style RD7 Red Devil box furnace for batch heat treating small loads of low-carbon steel.
Continue readingBrembo builds $100 million cast iron foundry in Michigan
Brembo Brake Systems, Plymouth, Mich., announces that it has conducted the first pour at its new $100 million, 266,000 square-foot cast iron foundry, during which the furnaces were charged and molten iron was poured into molds for the first time.
Continue readingNucor and JFE Steel to build $270 million sheet steel plant in Mexico
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces a 50-50 joint venture with JFE Steel Corp. of Japan to build and operate a plant that will produce 400,000 tons per year of galvanized sheet steel in central Mexico.
Continue readingWalk-in batch oven designed for aging and annealing aluminum
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped two industrial ovens to United Tool & Die Company in West Hartford, Conn., for aging and annealing aluminum parts in a restricted space.
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