The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, announces that researchers have developed a tungsten-chromium-iron powder metallurgy alloy that could replace depleted uranium in armor-piercing projectiles.
3D printer builds first object in space
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., announces that an object has been additively manufactured in space for the first time.
Seco Warwick supplies vacuum furnace to Wisconsin heat treating company
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that it has sold a standard Vector 2 bar vacuum furnace to Service Heat Treating, Milwaukee, a provider of case hardening and vacuum processing of medium to large production runs.
CHTE project tests induction tempering versus furnace tempering
The Center for Heat Treating Excellence, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., is working on a research project to test the benefits and limitations of induction tempering versus furnace tempering.
U.S. Steel announces new Pittsburgh headquarters location
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that the company will relocate its corporate headquarters to the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s lower Hill District.