Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., introduces PremoMax, a premium melted, quenched and tempered, cost-effective alloy steel that provides high strength, excellent impact toughness, and good hardenability in large section sizes.
Bodycote to open new heat treatment facility In Mexico
Bodycote, Macclesfield, England, announces that the company will open a new, 100,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art heat treatment plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
FTC approves Air Liquide acquisition of Airgas
Air Liquide, Paris, announces that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared the acquisition of Airgas, Radnor, Pa., by Air Liquide, satisfying the final regulatory condition to the closing of the pending acquisition.
One Minute Mentor: Metallurgy of Ferritic Stainless Steels
Chromium stabilizes the ferritic structure at high temperatures, but some austenite can form at high temperature in steels with 12% chromium and a low or medium percentage of carbon, as shown in the graph.
Vac Aero refurbishes hot zone of aerospace heat treatment furnace
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, recently received an order for a complete refurbishment of the all-metal hot zone in a horizontal furnace for a customer in the aerospace heat treatment sector in Canada.