The United Kingdom’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and nine other European partners are collaborating in the design, scale-up, and build of a high energy ball-mill (HEBM) pilot plant for the production and validation of innovative nanostructured powders.
Continue readingArcam expands titanium powder production to 500 tons per year
Arcam AB, Sweden, has announced that its metal powder manufacturing subsidiary AP&C is significantly expanding its titanium powder production capacity with the commissioning of three new plasma atomizers.
Continue readingLaser gold plating technology coats Oscar statuettes
Epner Technology, Brooklyn, N.Y., was chosen to use its Laser Gold technology to electroplate gold onto the cast bronze Oscar statuettes this year.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Hardness Gradients in Nitrided High-Speed Tool Steel
The graph shows the effect of bath conditions and immersion time on hardness gradients in Type T1 high-speed tool steel.
Continue readingNIST ultrasound method detects cracks in capacitors
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., and collaborators have demonstrated a nondestructive acoustic method for detecting cracks in ceramic capacitors before they go bad.
Continue reading3D-printed titanium hip implant features fully porous acetabular cup
Smith & Nephew, Andover, Mass., introduces its first 3D-printed titanium hip implant, the new Redapt revision acetabular fully porous cup with Conceloc technology.
Continue readingBonnell Aluminum to invest $18 million in extrusion line for auto structures
Bonnell Aluminum, Newnan, Ga., announces it will invest approximately $18 million over the next year to fund an expansion project that will include the purchase of a new state-of-the-art aluminum extrusion line at its Aacoa facility in Niles, Michigan.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres partners with Pressure Technology for aircraft parts
Solar Atmospheres, Hermitage, Pa., announces that it now partners with Pressure Technology Inc. (PTI), Concord, Ohio, to provide heat treating of aircraft parts after they have been hot isostatically pressed to high density at the PTI facility.
Continue readingSingle-flow precision case hardening enables low-distortion gears
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., introduces the UniCase Master, which is said to provide a single flow, precision case hardening system for low-pressure vacuum carburizing; and 4D high-pressure gas quenching with low distortion for high-volume gear manufacturing.
Continue readingUTC Aerospace Systems opens $8 million advanced materials laboratory in Connecticut
UTC Aerospace Systems, Windsor Locks, Conn., has opened an $8 million, 20,000 ft2 state-of-the-art Materials and Process Engineering laboratory to support research, engineering, and production of advanced materials for aerospace applications.
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