Accurate Brazing, SC, has received Nadcap accreditation for its Garlington Road facility in Greenville facility for Heat Treating. The accreditation is for demonstrating ongoing commitment to quality by satisfying customer requirements and industry specifications.
Continue readingConstellium ranked on Forbes’ list of world’s top female-friendly companies
Constellium, Paris, has been ranked on Forbes’ inaugural list of the world’s top female-friendly companies.
Continue readingOerlikon’s new state-of-the-art laser cladding center is operational
Oerlikon Metco Coating Services, NC, has announced that the company’s new laser cladding service center is fully operational in Huntersville, NC, a suburb of Charlotte NC.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres adds furnace to reclaim titanium and tantalum
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., has commissioned a new high-production vacuum furnace thereby doubling hydriding and de-hydriding capacity in the reclamation process of high-value titanium and tantalum materials.
Continue readingASM International to launch Data Ecosystem
Data Ecosystem uses advanced analytical tools such as machine learning to accelerate materials and engineering innovation, making the results accessible to the entire STEM community.
Continue readingNanoAL receives stage 1 CABLE prize from U.S. Department of Energy
NanoAL LLC, Ashland, Mass., has announced that it has been awarded a 2021 Stage 1 Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for the “Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric applications” (CABLE) program.
Continue readingSECO/WARWICK to deliver furnace for hardening aviation steel
SECO/WARWICK , Meadville, Pa., will deliver a Vector vacuum furnace to one of the largest European machinery groups. The device will be used for hardening and tempering processes, and its design has been customized in order to meet the needs of a special and demanding process which is the hardening of aviation steel.
Continue readingHigh temp high-vacuum brazing furnaces for precision heat treating
Centorr Vacuum industries, Nashua, NH, has announced that they are building six high-temperature high-vacuum furnaces for precision heat treating, brazing, and annealing applications. The furnaces are from their Workhorse product line.
Continue readingElvial purchases a second furnace from Nitrex
Nitrex Metal, Canada, has sold a second NX-815 E furnace to Elvial, one of the largest aluminum extrusion companies in Greece. This will help ELVIAL meet the needs created by their plant expansion and to increase their manufacturing capacity.
Continue readingCryoforging titanium to improve ductility
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., has discovered a new and practical path toward manufacturing titanium with high ductile strength. The technique relies on low-temperature cryoforging to create nanotwinned titanium, which has 30% more ductility than normal titanium.
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