Aichelin Group, Plymouth, Mich., announces that member company Bosio, Slovenia, has commissioned a 72-foot pit furnace, a 72-foot split type furnace, and a PLC controlled spray quenching unit of the same size for the heat treatment of turbine rotors with a length up to 52 feet and a rotor weight up to 175 tons.
Continue readingStratasys acquires Solid Concepts for its 3D printing of medical and aerospace parts
Stratasys, Minneapolis, announces the acquisitions of Solid Concepts and Harvest Technologies, which will be combined with RedEye, its existing digital manufacturing service business, to establish one additive manufacturing services business unit.
Continue readingContinental launches first automotive aluminum turbocharger housing
Continental Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., announces that its powertrain developers have launched series production of the first car turbocharger with an aluminum turbine housing.
Continue readingAlcoa forged aluminum fan blade to fly on P&W jet engine
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announced at the Farnborough Air Show that it has signed a ten-year, $1.1 billion agreement with Pratt & Whitney for state-of-the-art jet-engine components.
Continue readingNotre Dame and General Electric to collaborate on gas turbine R&D facility
The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and General Electric Power & Water, Schenectady, N.Y., announce plans to work together to build a $36 million research and test facility with the goal of making better massive gas turbines used by aircraft, power plants, and the oil and gas industry.
Continue readingAlcoa to acquire Firth Rixson for its aerospace forging capabilities
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Firth Rixson, a global leader in aerospace jet engine components, from Oak Hill Capital Partners, for $2.85 billion in cash and stock.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft batch furnace customized for Specialty Steel Treating
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that Specialty Steel Treating is adding a new Universal Batch Quench integral quench furnace to its facility in Fraser, Mich.
Continue readingCMI Industry to provide furnace to develop new heat treatments for aerospace alloys
CMI Industry Groupe, Belgium, parent company of CMI Industry Americas, Salem, Ohio, announces that it will provide a heat treatment furnace at the Advanced Forming Research Center in Glasgow, Scotland, to carry out a range of combustion tests to develop new metal processing techniques for aerospace alloys.
Continue reading25th AeroMat Conference Features Tuskegee Airman
The 25th AeroMat Conference and Exposition, held June 16-19 in Orlando, Fla., featured a theme of “the latest word in aerospace materials.”
Continue readingMGI strategic plan released for public comment
The National Science and Technology Council’s subcommittee on the MGI released for public comment a draft of its first strategic plan, to serve as a roadmap for Federal agencies as they execute on the initiative vision going forward.
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