Stabilization is generally considered to be the simple gettering of carbon and nitrogen by a suitable carbide former such as titanium or niobium. Stabilization is essential for ferritic stainless steels to avoid the precipitation of grain boundary carbides.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Stabilization of Ferritic Stainless Steels
Stabilization is generally considered to be the simple gettering of carbon and nitrogen by a suitable carbide former such as titanium or niobium. Stabilization is essential for ferritic stainless steels to avoid the precipitation of grain boundary carbides.
Continue readingLindberg/MPH ships cyclone pit furnace for heat treating aerospace parts
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces the shipment of a cyclone pit furnace for heat treating aircraft components to a supplier of the aerospace industry.
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Superior Tube Company Inc., Collegeville, Pa., has been awarded Nadcap accreditation for heat treating by the Performance Review Institute.
Continue readingPenn State to lead $20 million NETL coalition for fossil energy research
The DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), South Park Township, Pa., has selected Pennsylvania State University, State College, as the lead institution to establish the six-year, $20 million University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research.
Continue readingCarTech PremoMax alloy steel designed for downhole oil/gas drilling
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., introduces PremoMax, a premium melted, quenched and tempered, cost-effective alloy steel that provides high strength, excellent impact toughness, and good hardenability in large section sizes.
Continue readingBodycote to open new heat treatment facility In Mexico
Bodycote, Macclesfield, England, announces that the company will open a new, 100,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art heat treatment plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Continue readingFTC approves Air Liquide acquisition of Airgas
Air Liquide, Paris, announces that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared the acquisition of Airgas, Radnor, Pa., by Air Liquide, satisfying the final regulatory condition to the closing of the pending acquisition.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Metallurgy of Ferritic Stainless Steels
Chromium stabilizes the ferritic structure at high temperatures, but some austenite can form at high temperature in steels with 12% chromium and a low or medium percentage of carbon, as shown in the graph.
Continue readingVac Aero refurbishes hot zone of aerospace heat treatment furnace
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, recently received an order for a complete refurbishment of the all-metal hot zone in a horizontal furnace for a customer in the aerospace heat treatment sector in Canada.
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