Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, has built an electrically heated soluble mandrel curing oven in which 8000 pounds of steel and 20,000 pounds of soluble material are heated from 80° to 350°F at an average rate of 0.1°F per minute.
Retech supplies vacuum induction melting systems to Siemens for casting turbine blades
Retech Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Seco Warwick Group, Meadville, Pa., announces that two of its furnace systems have been installed at a new Siemens Power and Gas plant.
Nitrex enables heat treater to add nitriding, nitrocarburizing, and oxidation treatments
Nitrex Metal, Montreal, announces that Italian heat treater GalvanoTechnik has expanded its surface treatment services portfolio to include Nitreg controlled nitriding, Nitreg-C nitrocarburizing, and ONC in-process oxidation treatments.
One Minute Mentor: Stress relieving ductile iron
When not otherwise heat treated, complex engineering castings of ductile iron may be stress relieved at 510 to 675°C (950 to 1250°F).
Carpenter Technology announces formation of additive manufacturing business unit
Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces the formation of a Carpenter Additive business unit, with capabilities that span the entire additive manufacturing process.