United States Steel, Pittsburgh, announces that it has formed a joint venture partnership agreement under which it has taken the first step toward acquiring Big River Steel through the purchase of a 49.9% ownership interest at a purchase price of approximately $700 million in cash, with a call option to acquire the remaining 50.1% within the next four years.
Continue readingAir Products develops procedures to optimize furnace atmospheres for annealing
Engineers from Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Allentown, Pa., discuss the proper specification, measurement, and control of annealing furnace atmospheres, which are critical to achieving the required metallurgical and microstructural results, at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingNitrex Metal studies influence of standard deviations on nitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing
Jack Kalucki, Nitrex Metal Inc., Montreal, Quebec, discusses how standard allowed deviations in control parameters affect actual results in controlled nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing, in a presentation at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingWPI develops color tint-etching method to quantify percentage of bainite in steel
Engineers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., will present a discussion of methods to determine the amounts of various microstructures in steel during heat treating, at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingGasbarre modular furnaces allow companies to adapt as their products evolve
Engineers from Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, Cranston, R.I., will present a discussion of modular vacuum furnaces that allow companies to adapt as their products evolve, or as their product line expands, at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Hardening temperatures for 440-N-DUR
Higher hardening temperatures are required for products machined from small bar sizes that have been annealed various times during thermomechanical processing.
Continue readingBodycote shows that machining can affect corrosion resistance of stainless steel
Engineers from Bodycote, Germany and England, will discuss the influence of machining on the surface hardness and corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steels at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres evaluates how nitrogen affects the Lehrer phase diagram
Engineers from Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., will present a discussion at Heat Treat 2019 about the use of nitrogen rather than hydrogen as the diluting gas during ammonia gas nitriding for safety, economic, and environmental reasons.
Continue readingIpsen develops heat treating technologies for additively manufactured parts
Peter Kerbel of Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., will discuss heat treating procedures that Ipsen has developed for additively manufactured parts in collaboration with AM component manufacturers, at Heat Treat 2019.
Continue readingSeco Vacuum multi-chamber vacuum systems reduce carburizing gas consumption
Don Marteeny, Technical Director at Seco Vacuum Technologies, Meadville, Pa., will present a discussion of multi-chamber vacuum systems developed for high-throughput, highly precise low-pressure carburizing applications at Heat Treat 2019.
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