Seco/Warwick Retech, Meadville, Pa., introduces the Compact furnace, designed for hardening tool and other steels at gas pressures under 15 Bar.
AFC-Holcroft heat treating systems to process aluminum auto parts
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a Tier 1 automotive supplier has ordered a roller hearth homogenizing furnace and a solution heat treat line for the processing of aluminum auto parts.
Atmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass
Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.
One Minute Mentor: Highly Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels
Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels typically contain larger amounts of molybdenum to provide very good resistance to chloride corrosion.
New GE Aviation facilities to produce SiC fibers and ceramic matrix composites
GE Aviation, Cincinnati, has broken ground for two materials factories near Huntsville: One facility will produce SiC ceramic fiber, while the other will use SiC ceramic fiber to make tape for ceramic matrix composite components in jet engines and land-based gas turbines.