Nitrex Metal Inc., Quebec, announces that the High Performance Metals Division of Voestalpine AG in the Czech Republic has expanded its heat treatment capabilities with the addition of a Nitrex system for nitriding and surface hardening stainless steel for various applications.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships heat treating batch oven to technology industry
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped an indirect gas fired heavy duty walk-in oven for heat treating materials used in the production of vehicle batteries.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Carburizing and Nitriding Practices for Specialty Steels
An alternative to case-carburizing and through-hardening aerospace alloys is 32CrMoV13, a nitriding steel that can be used in certain applications.
Continue readingGasbarre supplies a car bottom furnace to a U.S. maker of excavating equipment
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, Plymouth, Mich., recently manufactured and commissioned a high temperature car bottom furnace for a Southern U.S. manufacturer of excavating equipment.
Continue readingLindberg MPH stack melting/holding furnace designed for aluminum smelting industry
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas fired aluminum stack melting and holding furnace for producing aluminum ingot and sows. The furnace has a melt rate of 4500 pounds per hour.
Continue readingBuehler debuts AbrasiMet XL Pro large abrasive cutter at ASM Heat Treat 2019
Buehler, an ITW Company, Lake Bluff, Ill., premiered the AbrasiMet XL Pro large abrasive cutter and the AbrasiMet M medium sectioning saw at Heat Treat 2019 in Detroit.
Continue readingBruker Quantax EDS software suite can integrate all four microanalysis techniques
Bruker Corp., Oak Park, Ill., introduces its Quantax Compact EDS system, which consists of an XFlash 600 Mini silicon drift detector (SDD), a small electronics unit, and Eprit Compact intuitive software.
Continue readingSiemens digital enterprise software to accelerate Oerlikon AM additive manufacturing
Oerlikon AM, Charlotte, N.C., and Siemens AG, Germany, announce a strategic agreement in which Siemens will provide Oerlikon AM with digital enterprise solutions that will help Oerlikon accelerate the industrialization of additive manufacturing.
Continue readingFailure analysis shows how design errors contributed to collapse of 1350-foot tower
George Vander Voort of Vander Voort Consulting, presented a discussion of a tower design that ignored dynamic stresses, leading to the collapse of a radio tower.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Special Purpose Carburizing Grades
Several specialty carburizing steel grades have been developed for specific requirements involving high-temperature performance, fracture toughness, and/or resistance to oxidation and corrosion.
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