NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., on May 8 to participate in a ceremony recognizing Langley’s decades of contributions to improving helicopters and other vertical flight aircraft.
Continue readingHoughton celebrates its 150th anniversary with special issue of The Houghton Line
Houghton International Inc., Valley Forge, Pa., is bringing back its industrial periodical, The Houghton Line, to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres adds large advanced vacuum furnace to California facility
Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA), Fontana, has added a large furnace to its facility equipment.
Continue readingGerman furnace builder develops annealing furnace with improved convection heat transfer
Sarnes Ingenieure GmbH & Co., Germany, reports that it has developed a new annealing furnace system for heat treatment.
Continue readingLake City Heat Treating acquires VFS vacuum furnace
Lake City Heat Treating Corp., Warsaw, Ind., has acquired a VFS Model HIQ3836-6 furnace that can achieve vacuums of 10-6 torr and process temperatures up to 2400°F with a workload size up to 24 x 24 x 36 in.
Continue readingComposite curing oven to support aerospace research at University of South Carolina
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., has shipped a composite curing batch oven to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research at the University of South Carolina.
Continue readingBritish universities form consortium to optimize steel for railroad track
The University of Huddersfield, England, announces that its researchers will take part in a new $3 million railway steel development project backed by major funding groups.
Continue readingCerium-cobalt alloy added to NdFeB magnets raises Curie temperature, cuts cost
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, reports that ASM Fellow Karl A. Gschneidner and a team of researchers have developed a low-cost cerium-cobalt alloy that can be added to neodymium-iron-boron to improve magnetic properties in rare-earth magnets.
Continue readingMicroporous copper foam with relative density of 37% is effective heat sink
Goodfellow, England, offers a microporous copper foam with pore sizes between 300 and 600 µm and a relative density of around 37%.
Continue readingCenter for Heat Treating Excellence announces June meeting
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., announces that the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) and the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) will hold their spring meeting June 2 -3.
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