Constellium’s facility at Bowling Green, Kentucky has been recognized as an “exemplary environmental steward” by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The plant produces flat-rolled aluminum auto body sheet products for the automotive market in North America and has a capacity of 100,000 metric tons annually.
Continue readingHarper International completes factory acceptance testing at 2000°C of graphite rotary tube furnace
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of a new continuous, graphite rotary tube furnace at 2000°C for a global chemical manufacturer. The furnace will process refractory metal powders in hydrogen and inert atmospheres.
Continue readingAccurate Brazing to add second hot isostatic press unit
Accurate Brazing, New Hampshire, a provider of specialized heat-treating solutions will add a second hot isostatic press unit in 2021 to its Greenville, SC facility. The model QIH 122 M URC press is equipped with the Quintus proprietary uniform rapid cooling (URC) feature, which combines HIP and heat treatment in a single process.
Continue readingLucifer Furnaces builds top loading furnace for medical equipment manufacturer
Lucifer Furnaces, Pennsylvania, has supplied a top loading furnace to a leading tooling manufacturer. This joins a second Lucifer furnace already in use for the production of dies to cut fabric to make N95 masks for the medical industry. These furnaces are completely wired, assembled, and shipped ready for connection to a main power supply.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: The influence of sulfur content on the fatigue behavior of ferrite-pearlite steels
Sulfur content plays a major role in improving the fatigue strength of ferrite-pearlite steels. Finely dispersed MnS plays an active role in providing transformation initiation sites for ferrite within austenite grains and interrupts the formation of large pearlite.
Continue readingIpsen delivers Turbo2Treater vacuum furnace to Vacu Braze
Ipsen, Illinois, delivered a Turbo2Treater vacuum furnace specially designed for carburizing and solution nitriding to Vacu Braze, Pennsylvania – a specialty commercial heat-treating facility. The Turbo2Treater is used to harden steels with Ipsen’s patented solution nitriding process which increases surface hardness and improves resistance against wear, erosion and cavitation for parts ranging from surgical instruments to household appliances.
Continue readingNitrex receives supplier approval from Honeywell
Nitrex, Nevada, has received certification from Honeywell for copper plating services. The copper plating supplied will mask selected areas of the metal part to prevent nitriding of the substrate surface. Honeywell is a global leader of aerospace parts and services supplying the commercial, defense, and space aircraft industries.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres vacuum hardens 16,000 pound aluminum extrusion liner
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, successfully vacuum hardened one of the largest aluminum extrusion liners ever produced by Lake Park Tool and Machine located in Youngstown Ohio. The 10 bar vacuum furnace was completed by Solar Manufacturing and is one of the fastest cooling large vacuum furnaces in the industry.
Continue readingThe Mint of Poland orders second furnace from Seco/Warwick
Seco/Warwick, Poland, has supplied a second Vector vacuum furnace to The Mint of Poland, a producer of circulation and collector coins for the National Bank of Poland. The historic 250 year-old-plus institutions will begin producing stamps and coins with the latest Seco/Warwick solution. The latest furnace is primarily intended to increase the efficiency of the mint.
Continue readingResearchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief in energy applications
The U.S. Department of Energy has a team of researchers exploring how a weld is put together atom by atom in order to unlock the key to making crack-free welds. The goal is to investigate the performance of welds used to build large thermal energy storage tanks at concentrating solar plants—facilities with vast networks of mirrors used to collect solar energy, some stretching several million square feet in size.
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