The Boeing Co., Seattle, released a video showcasing the lightest metal structure ever, called Microlattice—”the world’s lightest material.”
Continue readingAir Products to highlight latest gas technologies at Heat Treat 2015
Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., will highlight the company’s latest gas technologies for the metals processing industry at the Heat Treat 2015 Conference and Exhibition in Detroit, October 20-22.
Continue readingLockheed Martin awards Alcoa titanium supply contract for Joint Strike Fighter
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that Lockheed Martin has awarded it a contract to supply titanium plate and billet for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft program, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter.
Continue readingIpsen introduces Quick Ship program for heat treating furnace parts
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., introduces the Quick Ship program, which provides one-day shipment of high-demand replacement heat treating furnace parts such as gas nozzles, power feedthrough assemblies, pumps, and much more.
Continue readingExpanite opens a new heat treatment center in Ohio
Expanite, Denmark, announces that it has established a subsidiary in the United States known as Expanite Inc., and has opened a new heat treatment center in Twinsburg, Ohio, for surface hardening of stainless steel.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Steps for Hardening of Tools as a Function of Time, Temperature, and Phase Transformation
After hot forming, tool steel usually is submitted to heat treatment processes that may be split into two major steps.
Continue readingLIFT co-locates at Detroit headquarters
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) will open a scale-up facility at LIFT.
Continue readingBodycote expands capacity for treating specialty stainless steels in Ohio
Bodycote, England, announces that it has expanded capacity for specialty stainless steel processes (S3P) at its facility in London, Ohio, and is building a new S3P facility in North Carolina that is to open in 2016.
Continue readingHarper’s three-meter PAN oxidation oven provides uniform air velocity
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that initial data on its three-meter wide production-scale oxidation oven for carbon fiber manufacturing shows outstanding performance for key metrics, including air-velocity uniformity and temperature uniformity.
Continue readingNitrex low-pressure carburizing furnace features precise parameter control
Nitrex Metal Inc., Quebec, began operation of a new low-pressure carburizing (LPC) furnace at its plant in Franklin, Indiana.
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