Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., announces that Century Die Co. LLC, Fremont, Ohio, has purchased a Lucifer Red Devil single-chamber box furnace for heat treating mold tooling.
Continue readingSecoWarwick Compact furnace hardens tool steels at pressures under 15 Bar
Seco/Warwick Retech, Meadville, Pa., introduces the Compact furnace, designed for hardening tool and other steels at gas pressures under 15 Bar.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft heat treating systems to process aluminum auto parts
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a Tier 1 automotive supplier has ordered a roller hearth homogenizing furnace and a solution heat treat line for the processing of aluminum auto parts.
Continue readingAtmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass
Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Highly Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels
Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels typically contain larger amounts of molybdenum to provide very good resistance to chloride corrosion.
Continue readingNew GE Aviation facilities to produce SiC fibers and ceramic matrix composites
GE Aviation, Cincinnati, has broken ground for two materials factories near Huntsville: One facility will produce SiC ceramic fiber, while the other will use SiC ceramic fiber to make tape for ceramic matrix composite components in jet engines and land-based gas turbines.
Continue readingNioCorp and IBC to collaborate on scandium-containing aluminum alloys
NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.
Continue readingCan-Eng installs 6000 lb/hr continuous mesh belt heat treating furnace
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has installed and commissioned a 6000 lb/hr continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system for the hardening and tempering of high-volume fasteners at Metex Heat Treating Ltd., Brampton, Ontario.
Continue readingLarge-area ALD system enables encapsulation of large sheets of organic components
Picosun Oy, Finland, has developed atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment specifically designed for large-area flexible electronics encapsulation.
Continue readingIntegral quench furnace system provides solution for die forging heat treatment
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a Pacemaker integral quench furnace with an endothermic gas generator to a company in the die forging industry.
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