Category: news

Alcoa to invest $60 million to develop its Ampliforge 3D-printing plus forging process

Alcoa, Pittsburgh, is investing $60 million in its R&D center to accelerate the development of advanced 3D-printing materials and processes.

Contour Hardening receives ISO/TS certification of heat treating facility in Mexico

Contour Hardening Inc., Indianapolis, the developer of patented Micropulse induction heat treating technology, announces the recent ISO/TS 16949:2009 certification of its heat treating service facility in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Custom furnace maker Thermcraft launches first standard lab furnace line

Thermcraft Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., a manufacturer of custom furnaces, announces the release of ExpressLine, the company’s first standard-size laboratory furnace, with the goal of cutting delivery time to just two weeks.

Seco-Warwick Allied commissions two aluminum melting and holding furnaces

Seco-Warwick Allied, India, recently commissioned two 60-metric-ton aluminum melting and holding furnaces for Hindalco Industries Ltd.

Carl Zeiss Microscopy celebrates fifty years of scanning electron microscopes

Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd., England, marked the 50th anniversary of the first sale of a commercial scanning electron microscope with an event in Cambridge.

Ipsen ships Titan H8 furnace to Saudi Arabia, the first outside the United States

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it has made its first shipment of a Titan H8 furnace to a company outside the United States: A Titan H8 vacuum furnace was shipped to a facility in Saudi Arabia.

Metallurgist named CEO of Google

Google recently announced a corporate restructure and named metallurgist, Sundar Pichai as its new CEO.

“The Heat Is On:” New social event at Heat Treat 2015

The ASM Heat Treating Society, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that a new social event will be held at Heat Treat 2015 in Detroit.

Materion to provide AlBeCast components to Lockheed Martin for F-35 jet

Materion Beryllium & Composites, Elmore, Ohio, announces that it has delivered the first finished AlBeCast aluminum-beryllium investment cast components to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS).

CoorsTek Medical to expand production of CeraSurf alumina matrix composites

CoorsTek Medical, Fort Worth, Texas, announces a five-year, multi-million dollar capital investment program to support the growing worldwide demand for its ceramic hip replacement components and turnkey hip arthroplasty solutions.