Kateeva, Newark, Calif., is expanding its headquarters by leasing an adjacent building at its Newark campus to facilitate production ramp-up of its Yieldjet inkjet printing manufacturing equipment for the global flat panel display industry.
Continue readingDynacast to acquire Signicast, the world’s largest investment casting manufacturer
Dynacast International, Charlotte, N.C., has signed a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Signicast LLC, a highly automated and vertically integrated manufacturer of precision investment cast parts.
Continue readingMeridian, Birmingham City U. partner to cut cost of diecast magnesium parts
Birmingham City University, England, has signed an exclusive partnership with Meridian Lightweight Technologies, Plymouth, Mich., to showcase magnesium diecast components as viable alternatives for luxury car makers and the aerospace industry.
Continue reading3D printing enables 50% less mass in titanium and graphite satellite structures
Space Systems Loral (SSL), Palo Alto, Calif., announces that it has successfully introduced additive manufacturing techniques for titanium and graphite structural components into its geostationary satellite platform.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Porosity in Coatings
Porosity is an important coating feature that strongly influences coating properties.
Continue readingGE Aviation invests more than $4 billion in the United States over five years
GE Aviation, Evendale, Ohio, announces that its investments in the United States have reached $4.3 billion in expanding operations during 2011-2016, thanks to record production on a new generation of jet engines, engine components, and aircraft systems.
Continue readingSandia develops kinetic deposition of ceramic nanoparticles to build thin films
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., reports that its scientists have developed an aerosol deposition process in which ceramic nanoparticles form coatings when deposited at high speed at room temperature.
Continue readingOerlikon Metco acquires technology to make high-temperature/high-purity powders
Oerlikon Metco, Switzerland, has acquired assets, technologies, and key people from Recentis Advanced Materials Inc., Canada, which has developed novel technologies to master materials manufacturing at high temperatures.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: High-Temperature Nitriding for Deeper Case
High-temperature nitriding or solution nitriding at temperatures of 2010 ± 90°F is a new treatment available to produce cases with nitrogen concentrations in the range of 0.4 to 0.9 wt%, which is low compared to plasma nitriding treatments at low temperature (up to 16.9wt% N), but the resulting case is up to 100 times deeper (2 mm, or 0.08 in.).
Continue readingImmersion-tube lead holding/melting furnaces designed for auto battery plates
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped two 18-tube gas-fired immersion tube lead melting and holding furnaces to a supplier of the battery industry.
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