Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the company has been awarded $4 million by AmericaMakes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, to develop additive manufacturing technology for the repair of aerospace metal components for the U.S. Air Force.
Continue readingTest instrument with friction-free motor integrates with torsion actuator
TA Instruments, New Castle, Del., introduces the ElectroForce 3310, which delivers 1 kN of force capacity and can be integrated with a torsion actuator that provides simultaneous axial-torsion loading.
Continue readingIpsen delivers heat-treating solutions across the United States
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., has shipped 11 heat-treating systems to eight different states from California to Massachusetts over the past quarter, for processing parts for companies in the aerospace, energy, commercial heat treating, and coating industries.
Continue readingNatural-gas three-zone conveyor oven cures adhesives at 350 parts/hour
Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, Wis., has shipped a natural gas direct-fired three-zone conveyor oven with cool down to a leading supplier of flooring products for curing adhesives at a rate of 350 parts per hour.
Continue readingBodycote adds nitrocarburizing service at its new Georgia plant
Bodycote, U.K., announces that it will add nitrocarburizing to its heat treatment services at its new 60,000-square-foot heat treatment plant in Covington, Ga., which replaces the plant in Conyers.
Continue readingRoger Jones of Solar Atmospheres nominated as ASM Trustee
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that Roger Jones, corporate president, has been nominated as a trustee for the ASM International Board of Trustees, effective October 2016.
Continue readingJuno carries nine instruments, a titanium vault, and 3D printed brackets
Developed by Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, Calif., the Juno spacecraft is hexagonal in shape, is 3.5 meters tall and 3.5 meters in diameter, and has a liftoff mass of about 8000 pounds.
Continue readingThree Lego aluminum astronauts travel to Jupiter on Juno
The Lego Group, Sweden, provided three 1.5-inch figurines milled out of a single block of aluminum to ride to Jupiter on the Juno spacecraft: the astronomer Galileo, and the Greek gods Juno and Jupiter.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Annealing of Austenitic Stainless Steels
The graph shows isothermal precipitation kinetics for detrimental ?/? phases for the 254 SMO (S31254), 904L, and 317LMN alloys.
Continue readingXiaoqing Cai Receives 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award
Xiaoqing Cai was presented the 2016 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating Award by Dean Hoffmann (left) of Bodycote at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence on June 15 during their Spring meeting.
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