Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the SimpliMet 4000, a compression mounting system that eliminates bottlenecks at the mounting stage, rapidly transforming cut samples to specimens ready for grinding and polishing.
Continue readingAtlas batch atmosphere furnace provides carburizing, neutral hardening, and carbonitriding
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped an Atlas batch atmosphere furnace and ancillary equipment – temper, washer, loader, endo generator, and load table – to Metal Treaters Inc., St. Paul, Minn.
Continue readingAdvanced thermal imaging cameras can detect temperature differences of 1 mK
Flir Systems, Wilsonville, Oregon, has developed X6000sc and X8000sc series thermal imaging cameras with Lock-In, Transient, and Pulse capabilities that can resolve temperature differences as low as 1 mK for advanced inspections.
Continue readingATI announces restructuring of Flat Rolled Products operations
Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, announces the next phase in the restructuring of its Flat Rolled Products (FRP) operations with the reduction of approximately one third of FRP’s salaried workforce through the elimination of over 250 positions.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres receives first MedAccred re-accreditation
Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., announces that it has become the first company to receive MedAccred critical process re-accreditation, an industry-managed critical process supply chain oversight program developed by leading medical device companies to improve device quality and enhance patient safety.
Continue readingMessage from the President: Strategic Planning
At the last face-to-face meeting in Montreal, the TSS Board decided to conduct a strategic planning exercise to review the mission, vision, and strategic objectives of our Society. This important step aims at identifying key actions for us to develop and implement in the coming years to better serve our national and international members.
Continue readingHeat-treated powder metallurgy titanium alloy has higher strength, lower cost
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its research team has improved the strength of a titanium alloy by producing it via powder metallurgy and heat treating it at different temperatures, then quenching in cold water.
Continue readingAmorphous steel powder metallurgy alloy has highest impact resistance
The University of California San Diego announces that a team of engineers has developed and tested SAM2X5-630, a type of amorphous steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand impact without deforming permanently.
Continue readingH.C. Starck joins WPI Center for Heat Treating Excellence
H.C. Starck, Newton, Mass., announces that it has joined the team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an alliance between the industrial sector and university researchers that addresses short- and long-term needs in the heat treating and thermal processing industry.
Continue readingSelective separation sintering enables 3D printed parts to be made of Martian materials
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, announces that a novel 3D-printing process called selective separation sintering has won the NASA competition for a technology that could enable space travelers to build structures of crushed basalt rock and regolith found on Mars.
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