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Continue readingHarper partners with University of Colorado to process magnesium for auto parts
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has finalized a contract for a research-scale high-temperature reactor to support University of Colorado Boulder’s development of magnesium for lightweight vehicle parts.
Continue readingImaging innovation could detect acoustically invisible cracks
The University of Bristol, UK, announces that its researchers have developed a nonlinear acoustic imaging technique that can detect cracks that cannot be seen by conventional acoustic imaging methods.
Continue readingCrystal growth furnace can produce 660-lb sapphire boules
ARC Energy, Nashua, N.H., has announced the CHES 500 crystal growth furnace, designed to produce the world’s largest-ever sapphire boules with a mass of 660 lb and diameter of 500 mm.
Continue readingIpsen ships furnaces worldwide for aerospace, automotive, energy, and more
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that in recent months it has shipped more than 30 furnaces around the globe for a variety of applications and industries.
Continue readingMagnesium-base alloys under development for biodegradable medical implants
University of Pittsburgh researchers recently received another $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to continue a combined multi-university, private-industry effort to develop implantable medical devices made from biodegradable alloys based on magnesium.
Continue readingGreener ship propellers
Invention reduces the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades by a third.
Continue readingNovelis invests $100 million in its Chinese aluminum plant
Novelis, Atlanta, has opened China’s first plant dedicated to the production of heat-treated aluminum automotive sheet.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft offers new equipment diagnostic service
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., introduces a significant new service to increase furnace uptime and availability through diagnosis of equipment event reporting.
Continue readingSSAB launches Laser Plus steel with guaranteed flatness after laser cutting
SSAB Stockholm, Sweden, has introduced Laser Plus, a totally new generation of steels, for laser cutting that comes with unique guarantees: maximum flatness deviation of 3 mm/m after laser cutting and bending radius of 0 -1.5 x the material thickness.
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