Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Kentucky, announces that it will spend $1.3 billion to build an auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminum rolling mill, the nation’s first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in over three decades.
One Minute Mentor: Physical Metallurgy of Expanded Austenite
The microstructural feature responsible for the favorable technological properties resulting from low-temperature gaseous thermochemical treatment is a supersaturation of nitrogen and/or carbon in austenite. This is called expanded austenite.
Ipsen provides advanced equipment, comprehensive support to industries around the world
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped eight vacuum heat-treating systems to customers in Costa Rica, India, Germany, and the United States, where the equipment will be used to support the additive manufacturing, aerospace, medical, MIM, and tooling industries.
Harper and Ferrite partner to expand solutions for industrial microwave heating
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that it is partnering with Ferrite Microwave Technologies, Nashua, N.H., to utilize FMT’s high-power microwave heating technology to complement its product portfolio of traditional gas and electric fired furnaces.
ClassOne copper plating chamber cuts costs for plating 200-mm wafers by 95%
ClassOne Technology, Kalispell, Montana, has developed the CopperMax plating chamber, a design that is said to extend bath life by a factor greater than 20.