Engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering announce that they have developed a way to weld aluminum alloy AA 7075 by infusing titanium carbide nanoparticles into welding wires, which results in welded joints with a tensile strength up to 392 MPa.
Continue readingDesktop Metal’s single-pass jetting is four times faster than other binder jet 3D printers
Desktop Metal, Burlington, Mass., announces several major advances and expanded capabilities to its Production System, the world’s fastest metal printer, delivering the lowest cost per part with the highest capacity of any metal 3D printing system available.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven dual-chamber heat treating furnace preheats up to 4000 pounds of steel
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a natural gas-fired Heavy Duty Batch Series furnace for preheating dies to a customer in the automotive industry.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Tensile properties of austempered ductile iron
Austempered ductile iron is a unique cast iron material with tensile properties attributable to ?H with the fine dispersion of ferrite.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres’ Roger Jones to semi-retire after 45 years in heat treating industry
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., recently awarded the title of CEO Emeritus to Roger A. Jones, FASM, and announces his semi-retirement as Solar Atmospheres’ CEO, the culmination of 45 years of leadership and service to the vacuum heat treating industry.
Continue readingStack Metallurgical installs Quintus Mega HIP for heat treating aerospace, medical products
Stack Metallurgical Group, Albany, Ore., announces that it has installed a Quintus Mega-HIP hot isostatic press for heat treating and processing of aerospace, power generation, medical implant, and other products.
Continue readingBoston Metal raises $20M to scale up molten oxide electrolysis production of ferroalloys
Boston Metal announces that it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the first industrial-scale deployments of its molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) technology for the production of ferroalloys.
Continue readingOptomec partners with Phillips Federal to bring 3D printing to US government agencies
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., has signed a partnership agreement with Phillips Federal that will enable Phillips to resell the Optomec Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) systems to U.S. government facilities.
Continue readingNucor to invest $1.35 billion to build state-of-the-art steel plate mill in the Midwest
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces plans to invest $1.35 billion to build a state-of-the-art plate mill in the United States Midwest that will be capable of producing 1.2 million tons per year of steel plate products.
Continue readingOne-Minute Mentor: Processing sequence for austempered ductile iron
The figure shows an isothermal transformation (IT) diagram for a ductile cast iron, together with a processing sequence depicting the production of ADI.
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