Samuel Associated Tube Group, Birmingham, Ala., announces plans to build a new 284,000 square foot facility in Jefferson County to consolidate existing facilities and provide capacity for future growth.
Continue readingGasbarre to manufacture all thermal processing systems in Pennsylvania by 2020
Gasbarre Products Inc., DuBois, Pa., announces that by the end of 2019, all thermal processing systems will be manufactured in its 50,000 sq. ft. facility located in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania.
Continue readingSolar designs furnace to process magnetic shielding materials for electronic devices
Solar Manufacturing Inc., Sellersville, Pa., announces that the MuShield Co. of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has commissioned Solar Manufacturing to design its first-ever vacuum furnace.
Continue readingIpsen supplies four vacuum furnaces for aerospace additive manufacturing production
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., was recently awarded an order to supply a West Coast aerospace customer with four Titan H6 two-bar vacuum furnaces for heat treating additively manufactured parts in full-scale production.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Nitriding zones
Nitrogen diffused into the component during nitriding forms two zones: a compound layer and a diffusion zone.
Continue readingGKN Powder Metallurgy acquires Forecast 3D to expand markets and technologies
GKN Powder Metallurgy, London, the world’s largest producer of metal powder and parts, has acquired Forecast 3D, Carlsbad, Calif., a leading U.S. specialist in plastic additive manufacturing offering a full range of services from concept to series production.
Continue readingHigh-speed laser cladding enables higher efficiency, less material, and lower heat input
Engineers from Höganäs AB, Sweden, reported at the ITSC conference last May that laser cladding has been practiced for about 40 years, but did not reach a level of general acceptance in the industry until recently because other coating processes, such as PTA, thermal spray, and GMAW are well known and have a lower investment cost than lasers.
Continue readingCarpenter Technology invests $40 million to build Alabama additive manufacturing facility
Carpenter Technology, Philadelphia, announces the grand opening of its Emerging Technology Center (ETC), a 500,000-square-foot additive manufacturing facility containing true end-to-end capabilities in Athens, Alabama.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Rapid Tooling Repair
An important development in the area of rapid tooling involves the use of massive thermal spray deposits of steel over ceramic molds to form tooling used in sheet-metal forming.
Continue readingSandvik opens highly automated titanium powder plant for additive manufacturing
Sandvik AB, Sweden, has inaugurated its highly automated titanium powder plant in Sandviken, an important step in meeting the increasing market demands for titanium powder for additive manufacturing.
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