Harper International, Buffalo, has beem chosen by Westwater Resources, Inc. to conduct engineering scaleup and front-end engineering design for production scale thermal purification as part of the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on the Coosa Graphite Project located in Alabama.
Constellium developing aluminum-lithium alloys for NASA
Constellium, Paris, is developing an aluminum-lithium alloy solution, Airware®, that will be used for NASA’s Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, for missions that will ultimately send humans farther into deep space than ever before. Airware’s inherent low density, high-specific stiffness, strength and excellent mechanical properties provide the high-performance characteristics required during the demanding launch and landing phases.
Lindberg ships two gas-fired furnaces to the manufacturing Industry
Lindberg, Michigan, announced the shipment of two gas-fired hardening and tempering furnaces to the manufacturing industry. These large-capacity box furnaces will be used for the normalizing, austenitizing, and tempering of forged components.
One Minute Mentor: Typical applications of micro alloyed steels for automotive components
Micro alloyed steels are machined and hardened to provide necessary machinability, strength, fatigue, and wear properties after forging and direct heat treatment. The selection of an appropriate steel grade is very important in the fabrication of crankshafts.
Ipsen’s new PdMetrics feature offers additional diagnostics
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Illinois launched new features on its PdMetrics dashboard that monitors incoming three-phase utilities, voltage, and frequency on Ipsen’s Titan 2.0 vacuum furnaces. This addition offers further diagnostics for the diffusion pump heater assembly.