The 52100 steel is considered a low-alloy steel with modest hardenability, and the fine grain size due to aluminum carbonitride particles imparts increased toughness.
Continue readingAccurate Brazing to invest $13 million to upgrade and expand heat treating operations
Accurate Brazing, Greenville, S.C., a subsidiary of Aalberts N.V., announces that it will invest $13 million to expand operations in Greenville County by upgrading approximately 20,000 square feet of an existing facility to install a new world-class hot isostatic press.
Continue readingSurface Combustion case depth calculators enable quick estimates from the shop floor
Surface Combustion, Maumee, Ohio, introduces Surface Depths Calculators, which enable engineers and customers alike to complete quick, accurate calculations from the shop floor.
Continue readingSandvik acquires stake in Beam IT for its additive manufacturing capabilities
Sandvik, Stockholm, announces that it has acquired a 30% stake in privately owned Italian company Beam IT, a leading provider of metal additive manufacturing (AM) services and advanced end-use components.
Continue readingMS&T 2019 Symposium: Advanced High Strength Steels / From Design to End Users
This Symposium will focus on recent achievements in Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) development, from innovations in steel production and post-processing, to forming parts through various approaches and end-use applications.
Continue readingOECD says global steelmaking capacity could grow by as much as 5% by 2021
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, reports that global steelmaking capacity declined slightly in 2018, but projects that are underway now or have been proposed could bring about more than 100 million metric tons of new capacity over the next three years.
Continue readingSeco Warwick develops augmented reality to enable users to view systems, processes
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that it partnered with Microsoft to adapt its holographic computer systems, HoloLens, to metallurgical applications in the manufacturing environment.
Continue readingSolar installs all-metal hot zone heat treating furnace for aerospace/medical alloys
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., recently installed another unique, all-metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its facility in Souderton to increase its capacity for processing sensitive materials such as PH stainless, nickel-chrome-base superalloys, titanium, and ferritic and austenitic stainless steels.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships top-flow conveyor oven to cure CPIG on plastic housings for electronics
Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, announces that it has shipped an electrically heated top-flow conveyor oven to a global machinery manufacturer for curing calcium phosphate invert glass-ceramic (CPIG) material on plastic housings for electronic components.
Continue readingEFD Induction’s Hardline Hybrid horizontal hardening system designed for bars, shafts
EFD Induction, Madison Heights, Mich., offers the HardLine Hybrid horizontal heat treatment system, which is said to delivers short cycle times, reproducibility, and reliability for heat treating bars and shafts.
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