AP&C, a GE Additive company located in Saint-Eustache, Canada, announces that it will begin production of aluminum alloy F357 powder to meet increased demand from aerospace and automotive sectors in Q1 2019.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Torch Manipulation Variables
Thermal spraying is a line-of-sight process; therefore, the substrate coating area should preferably be normal (at 90 degrees) to the spray stream.
Continue readingPG Technologies relocates headquarters to Mississippi, adds employees
PG Technologies LLC, a Praxair Surface Technologies and GE Aviation joint venture, will soon exceed initial workforce projections in Ellisville, Mississippi, the city to which it recently moved its headquarters from Indianapolis.
Continue readingPowder coating conveyor oven preheats and coats steel couplings for oil and gas equipment
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has delivered a natural-gas-fired conveyor oven to a supplier of the oil and gas industry for the preheating and powder coating of steel couplings.
Continue readingOerlikon Balzers receives Airbus Qualified Supplier status for its Balinit WC/C coating
Oerlikon Balzers, Switzerland, announces that it has received Qualified Supplier status from Airbus for its two customer centers in Great Britain and France for copper-alloy substrate coatings using Balinit C, a tungsten carbide/carbon coating.
Continue readingGKN Powder Metallurgy and EOS partner to advance metal additive manufacturing
GKN Powder Metallurgy, DuBois, Pa., has formed a strategic partnership with EOS GmbH, Germany, with the goal of designing a new, high-productivity process for laser-based metal additive manufacturing to reduce production time by 70% and overall cost by up to 50%.
Continue readingSeco gas nitriding furnace enables production of high-performance steel surfaces
Seco Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., reports that a growing American manufacturer has recently ordered a new precision gas nitriding furnace with ZeroFlow.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships belt conveyor oven for preheating aluminum forging billets
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a forging company a natural gas-fired conveyor oven that will serve as a preheating oven for aluminum billets.
Continue readingInstron “Errors in Your Data” online course helps operators identify data integrity issues
Instron, Norwood, Mass., launches an all-new online training course designed to help operators of materials testing systems understand data integrity issues they may encounter during testing.
Continue readingGoodfellow to offer Victrex mineral-filled semicrystalline and amorphous PEEK film
Goodfellow, Coraopolis, Pa., announces a major expansion of its range of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) materials to include 12 different forms: film, sheet, fiber, monofilament, powder, granule, tube, rod, mesh, bolt, nut, and washer.
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