Category: news

Bodycote signs 15-year contract with Rolls-Royce for vacuum heat treatment and HIP

Bodycote, England, the world’s largest provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, announces that it has signed a 15-year contract with Rolls-Royce’s Civil Aerospace business.

Nuclear fuel rod cladding alloy designed to prevent hydrogen generation when heated

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., announces that a team led by its researchers has developed an alloy of iron, chromium, and aluminum that does not contain zirconium.

Tester detects start-finish temperatures for NiTi martensite-to-austenite transformation

ANV Laser, Israel, introduces its noncontact Af tester (NCAT), a novel bent and free-recovery device that can determine the temperatures of Start and Finish Af (martensite-to-austenite transformation) for each of several NiTi devices of different shapes at the same time.

Fort Wayne Metals acquires G&S Titanium to support new products and capabilities

Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., has acquired G&S Titanium, a company specializing in titanium and specialty alloy wire and bar drawing.

One-Minute Mentor: AerMet Alloys

The graph shows a comparison of AerMet alloys and maraging steels in terms of (a) ductility vs. specific strength and (b) Charpy V-notch impact toughness vs. specific strength.

Lucifer Furnaces builds dual chamber heat treating furnace for punch and die maker

Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has delivered a dual chamber fiber-lined furnace to a leading manufacturer of punches and dies in North America.

Furnace for Nadcap and MedAccred features diffusion pump for high vacuum levels

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Midwest Thermal-Vac recently purchased a Titan vacuum furnace with 12-bar gas quenching for processing parts that need to comply with Nadcap and medical industry requirements such as MedAccred.

EU-funded Plassteel process enables low-temperature plasma nitriding of stainless steels

Cordis, the information portal for European Union research, reports that engineers working on the EU-funded project Plassteel have developed an advanced process for low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels that allows improved corrosion resistance and accurate tailoring of material properties.

Nitrex potential-controlled nitriding system treats dies for aluminum extruded profiles

Nitrex Metal, St. Laurent, Quebec, announces that it has been awarded a contract by Qatar Aluminum Extrusion for the supply and installation of an NX-1015 potential-controlled gas nitriding system configured for treating various sizes of flat and hollow dies used in the production of aluminum extruded profiles for construction and transportation.

Japanese researchers discover 16 million tons of rare-earth deposits in deep-sea mud

Several Japanese universities, research groups, and government agencies published an article in the April 10 edition of the online journal Scientific Reports describing results of their analysis of the rare-earth metals they discovered in deep-sea mud near Japan back in 2013.