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One Minute Mentor: Austempered Ductile Iron

ADI is a unique cast iron material with tensile properties attributable to ?H with a fine dispersion of ferrite.

Lucifer Furnaces receives order for a series of heat treat recirculating ovens

Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has supplied several convection ovens to a manufacturer of small medical parts in the southern United States.

Lindberg MPH ships single-zone tube furnace to company in the nuclear power industry

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a single-zone tube furnace to an engineering company in the nuclear power industry for annealing, ashing, carbon firing, ceramic firing, drying, hardening, sintering, solution treating, stress relieving, and normalizing.

Solar Atmospheres files patent application for 600hp gas blower operating in argon gas

Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., has filed a Patent Application with the U.S. Patent Office, application number 15/999,873 for a high pressure, rapid gas quenching vacuum furnace utilizing an isolation transformer in the blower motor power system.

Wisconsin Oven ships solution treat system to a supplier of the aerospace industry

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped an electrically heated horizontal quench solution treat system to a supplier of the aerospace industry for treating a mixture of aluminum and steel.

Buehler’s new Wilson universal hardness testers can hold several indenters and objectives

Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the Wilson UH4000 series universal hardness testers, which are designed for high-volume production labs and the production floor.

Buehler AutoMet grinder-polishers feature intuitive touch screen, z-axis material removal

Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., an ITW company, introduces the AutoMet family of semi-automatic grinder-polishers that feature a new intuitive touch screen interface that is simple to learn and quick to operate.

High-temperature nickel superalloy to improve efficiency of coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), in partnership with Energy Industries of Ohio Inc., is set to scale up the fabrication of components made from advanced nickel superalloys that will help bring advanced ultrasupercritical (AUSC) power plant technology to the level of readiness for commercial-scale demonstration.

U.S. Steel to restart pipe mill in Texas and EAF construction in Alabama

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces plans to restart the No. 1 Electric-Weld Pipe Mill at Lone Star Tubular Operations in Lone Star, Texas, and also to restart construction on a technologically advanced electric arc furnace steelmaking facility at its Tubular Operations in Fairfield, Ala.

Xerox acquires Vader Systems for its liquid-metal additive manufacturing technology

Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., announces that it has acquired metal additive manufacturing company Vader Systems, which will enable it to offer its customers access to low-cost metal additive manufacturing with a greater variety of metals.