Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., was recently awarded a contract for a pusher furnace line with Kepco Nuclear Fuel, which is currently producing nuclear fuel for its pressurized heavy water reactors.
C.I. Hayes installs conveyor belt atmosphere furnace
C.I. Hayes, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Company, Cranston, R.I., reports the installation of a Model BAC-M Conveyor Belt Atmosphere Furnace designed for various processes such as brazing, hardening, and annealing of stainless steel materials.
Ipsen vacuum furnaces deployed for aerospace, automotive, and additive manufacturing
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that over the past month, the company has shipped four furnaces and one upgrade for a variety of applications and industries.
Tribogenics XRF analyzer is based on a cartridge system instead of glass X-ray tube
Tribogenics, Los Angeles, Calif., introduces the Watson XRF analyzer, in which the company says conventional glass X-ray tubes are replaced with an X-Change cartridge system that makes changing cartridges “as easy as changing the ink in an inkjet printer.”
One Minute Mentor: Secondary Hardening in Tool Steels
As shown schematically in the graph, high-temperature hardness is made possible only by a very important straightening mechanism: secondary hardening, promoted by the precipitation of fine alloy carbides.