Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., has acquired G&S Titanium, a company specializing in titanium and specialty alloy wire and bar drawing.
One-Minute Mentor: AerMet Alloys
The graph shows a comparison of AerMet alloys and maraging steels in terms of (a) ductility vs. specific strength and (b) Charpy V-notch impact toughness vs. specific strength.
Lucifer Furnaces builds dual chamber heat treating furnace for punch and die maker
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has delivered a dual chamber fiber-lined furnace to a leading manufacturer of punches and dies in North America.
Furnace for Nadcap and MedAccred features diffusion pump for high vacuum levels
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Midwest Thermal-Vac recently purchased a Titan vacuum furnace with 12-bar gas quenching for processing parts that need to comply with Nadcap and medical industry requirements such as MedAccred.
EU-funded Plassteel process enables low-temperature plasma nitriding of stainless steels
Cordis, the information portal for European Union research, reports that engineers working on the EU-funded project Plassteel have developed an advanced process for low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels that allows improved corrosion resistance and accurate tailoring of material properties.