Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., reports that heat treating firm ThermTech recently purchased another Atlas integral quench batch furnace for carburizing, carbonitriding, and neutral hardening while supporting business from the oil and gas and heavy equipment industries.
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Bodycote, England, announces that its plant in Silao, Mexico, has been awarded the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for 2016.
Continue readingCliffs Natural Resources to invest $700 million in Toledo hot briquetted iron plant
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, announces that it will invest $700 million for the development of its first hot briquetted iron (HBI) production plant, to be located at a site in Toledo, Ohio.
Continue readingOerlikon, GE Additive collaborate to accelerate additive manufacturing industrialization
Oerlikon, Switzerland, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GE Additive, Pittsburgh, to collaborate on accelerating the industrialization of additive manufacturing.
Continue readingNano-fabricated metamaterial optical filter protects aircraft pilots from laser beams
Airbus subsidiary Satair Group, Atlanta, and Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and its optical filters division Lamda Guard of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will lead to an exclusive multi-million dollar global distribution agreement to bring MTI’s laser protection product MetaAir to the civil aviation market.
Continue readingNanoSteel launches 3D-printable tool steel for laser powder bed fusion
Nanosteel, Providence, R.I., announces the launch of its first product for the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process.
Continue readingDanieli to build JSW Steel “Plate Mill of the Future” in Texas for higher quality and precision
JSW Steel (USA) Baytown, Texas, has received preliminary Board approval, contingent upon securing governmental financial support, to proceed with a full-scale modernization project expected to take approximately 20 months to complete.
Continue readingAutomatic surface area analyzer designed for multiple metal and ceramic powders
Quantachrome Instruments, Boynton Beach, Fla., introduces the AutoFlow BET+, an automatic surface area analyzer designed for high-speed, high-throughput analyses of metal and ceramic powders and porous materials.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Depth Profiles of Nitrided Stainless Steel AISI 316
The graph shows composition-depth profiles of nitrided stainless steel AISI 316 as determined with glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GDOES).
Continue readingArcelorMittal Long Products Canada completes $20 million finishing line at Quebec bar mill
ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada, Longueuil, Quebec, has inaugurated a new$20 million finishing line at its bar mill, to increase the facility’s annual rolling capacity from 400,000 to 500,000 metric tons.
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