New international location for ASM heat treating show
January 14, 2016
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ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that organizers for Heat Treat Mexico are currently seeking abstract submissions on heat treating topics for the upcoming new event in Queretaro, Mexico, to be held later this year in September. It is the first show by the ASM Heat Treating Society specifically focused on thermal processing technology in Mexico, and organizers expect to reach a broad audience of heat treating professionals. As the January 22nd deadline to submit approaches, organizers encourage the heat treating community to submit their research and take advantage of the opportunity to present at Heat Treat Mexico.
The organization of this technical program is slightly different from other heat treating shows from HTS, as it will focus on three overarching topics, one on each of the three days: Process, Meaning to metallurgy, and Application.
The technical program is organized to emphasize how the materials respond to thermal treatment. Attendees will gain a higher level of understanding for several methods of heat treating, such as vacuum carburizing, nitriding, and induction hardening. This unique opportunity highlights the fundamentals of the process on day one. Changes to the metallurgical structure that result from the treatment will be covered on day two, and control methodology and maintenance protocols important to the specific technology will be highlighted on day three.
Robert J. Madeira, Vice President of Heat Treating for Inductoheat Inc., thinks that attendees will find great value in this show. "ASM International and its legion of industry professional recognize the opportunity to bring its expertise in education to Mexico. The "Basics of Metallurgy" course and the three day Heat Treating Symposium will be taught simultaneously in Spanish and English. This content-rich forum is designed to deliver expert knowledge about how modern thermal treatments transform metals. It offers the foundation for understanding that leads to good decisions on the factory floor."
To submit an abstract for Heat Treat Mexico, visit the Heat Treat Mexico website and select your preferred topic, along with the specific facet. For example, "Induction Heat Treating; What is the Process?" Presenting authors will be notified in February 2016 as to the status of their abstract.
Visit www.asminternational.org/htmexico to submit by January 22, 2016.
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About ASM International
As the world's largest association of materials-centric engineers and scientists, ASM International is dedicated to informing, educating, and connecting the materials community. A member and volunteer based organization, ASM serves as a central resource that gathers the latest applied information from the field and disseminates it back to industry, academia, and government through published content, classes, conferences, expositions, and local chapter engagement.
To learn more about ASM International, visit www.asminternational.org.
About The ASM Heat Treating Society
HTS, an Affiliate Society of ASM International formed in 1994, is the world's largest network of heat treaters. HTS members work to provide events and services to serve their worldwide membership of captive and commercial heat treaters, equipment manufacturers, researchers, governments and technicians. HTS members have their own unique leadership and agenda to serve the global heat treating community, and are dedicated to: Bringing heat treaters together to discuss heat treating challenges; providing the technical information, knowledge and education needed by all heat treaters; serving as a central clearinghouse for information of value to heat treaters; and interfacing with all organizations that serve heat treaters.
To learn more about HTS, visit www.asminternational.org/hts3-new
ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that organizers for Heat Treat Mexico are currently seeking abstract submissions on heat treating topics for the upcoming new event in Queretaro, Mexico, to be held later this year in September.
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Alcoa to supply GE Aviation with superalloy, titanium, and aluminum components
January 13, 2016
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a long-term contract with GE Aviation for jet engine components made of advanced nickel-based superalloys, titanium, and aluminum for a broad range of GE Aviation engine programs. The agreement is valued at more than $1.5 billion over the contract life.
"We greatly appreciate GE's continued confidence in Alcoa's aerospace capabilities, and are proud to support its advanced jet engine programs through this agreement," said Alcoa Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld.
Alcoa will employ advanced manufacturing capabilities to produce the parts across several facilities, including LaPorte, Indiana; Whitehall, Michigan; Hampton, Virginia; Dover, New Jersey; Wichita Falls, Texas; Winsted, Connecticut; Dives, France; and Laval, Canada.
Alcoa Power and Propulsion, a major business unit of Alcoa, is the number one supplier of nickel-based superalloy airfoils for jet engine and industrial gas turbine applications. It is also a leading supplier of structural castings made of titanium, aluminum and superalloy for aero engines and airframes. Additional value-add products and services include additive manufacturing, vacuum melted alloys, advanced airfoil coatings and machining, hot isostatic pressing and research & development. With 20 global production facilities, Alcoa Power and Propulsion employs more than 9600 people worldwide.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a long-term contract with GE Aviation for jet engine components made of advanced nickel-based superalloys, titanium, and aluminum for a broad range of GE Aviation engine programs.
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Solar Atmospheres’ Greenville facility offers a range of vacuum processing capabilities
January 12, 2016
Source: ASM International
Solar Atmospheres, Greenville, S.C., reports that its newest facility now has a wide range of vacuum processing capacity available, from furnaces suited for small lots and development cycles, to a 24-foot long vacuum chamber capable of processing up to 50,000 pounds at 2650°F.
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Bodycote opens new plants in Georgia and South Carolina
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Bodycote, U.K., announces two new heat treatment plants in the southeastern United States: Covington, Ga., and Greenville, S.C. The Covington plant will open in Spring 2016 to replace the nearby Conyers facility. Primarily serving automotive and general industrial customers, the new plant will be more than double the size of the existing Conyers facility, immediately increasing capacity to serve the Georgia and Florida marketplaces.
The Greenville plant is a new Nadcap-accredited facility that will serve the region's aerospace manufacturing supply chains. It is scheduled to be operational mid-2016 and provides further expansion opportunities to install additional key services in response to customer demand.
These new facilities are part of Bodycote's investment and expanded services strategy to serve the diverse range of industries in the Southeast United States.
Through heat treatment, metal joining, surface technology, and hot isostatic pressing, Bodycote improves the properties of metals and alloys, extending the life of vital components for a wide range of industries, including aerospace, defense, automotive, power generation, oil & gas, construction, medical and transportation.
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Bodycote, U.K., announces two new heat treatment plants in the southeastern United States: Covington, Ga., and Greenville, S.C.
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Lindberg/MPH ships gas-fired aluminum stack melting furnace to marine supplier
January 8, 2016
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Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired aluminum stack melting furnace to a leading supplier in the marine industry. The industrial furnace was modified to hook directly to the customer's existing melting furnace to provide additional melting capacity and efficiency.
The customer requested a system that would increase melt rate, enhance safety, and improve efficiency with state of the art process control. Lindberg/MPH took the customer's request and designed a stack melting system to attach to the customer's existing melting furnace via a short and enclosed launder connection trough. The two manually operated doors on adjacent sides allow for easy access to the melting chamber for cleaning. The laser charge stack level control monitors material level in the stack for maximum efficiency. A service technician provided by Lindberg/MPH will perform supervision during the installation period and perform onsite start-up and training.
The stack melt zone of the industrial furnace consists of a sloped charging stack that helps to minimize impact damage from ingot or large heavy scrap. Instead of falling directly onto the impact zone, it slides and tumbles to the bottom of the charging stack. At the intersection of the stack and hearth, the metal begins to melt. Additional material that is charged in the stack is preheated until the metal below it becomes molten and runs off the hearth through the flanged connector into the separate customer-supplied melting and holding furnace.
"At Lindberg/MPH we work with our customers to provide the most efficient solutions to their production needs," said Lindberg's Andrew Paul." For this customer, hooking into their existing equipment was the most effective solution to increase their melting capacity. This furnace provided the flexibility to increase their melting capacity by adding to their existing equipment instead of installing an entirely new furnace."
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Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a gas-fired aluminum stack melting furnace to a leading supplier in the marine industry.
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High-strength magnesium-lithium alloy weighs half as much as aluminum
January 1, 2016
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The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4 g/cm3, 50% less than aluminum and 30% less than magnesium. The researchers have shown that the alloy forms a protective layer of carbonate-rich film upon exposure to air, making it immune to corrosion. The finding is published online in the 19 October edition of Nature Materials.
Prof. Michael Ferry, of UNSW's School of Materials Science and Engineering, says that the excellent corrosion resistance of the alloy was observed by chance, when the team noticed that a heat-treated sample in a beaker of salt water showed no corrosion after several hours. Normally magnesium would have been extensively corroded.
The researchers then designed a magnesium-lithium alloy of specific composition together with a processing sequence consisting of hot extrusion, heating and water quenching, low-temperature aging, and cold rolling.
"This is the first magnesium-lithium alloy to stop corrosion from irreversibly eating into the alloy, as the balance of elements interacts with ambient air to form a surface layer which, even if scraped off repeatedly, rapidly reforms to create reliable and durable protection," says Prof. Ferry.
The UNSW team partnered with scientists on the Powder Diffraction beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, to confirm that the alloy contains a unique nanostructure that enables the formation of a protective surface film.
Prof. Nick Birbilis (shown in the photo), School of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, says viewing unprecedented structural detail of the alloy through the Australian Synchrotron will enable the team to work toward commercializing the new metal.
‘We're aiming to take the knowledge gleaned at the Australian Synchrotron to incorporate new techniques into the mass-production of this unique alloy in sheets of varying thickness, in a standard processing plant," Prof. Birbilis said.
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/discovery-%E2%80%98stainless-magnesium%E2%80%99-could-herald-transport-revolution
http://monash.edu/news/show/monash-university-researchers-co-discover-revolutionary-new-ultra-light-magnesium-alloy
The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4?g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.
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SSAB to deliver 25,000 metric tons of Galfan-coated high-strength steel for power plants
December 31, 2015
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SSAB, Sweden, has agreed to deliver a total of 25,000 metric tons of metal-coated high-strength steel to the Spanish company CIE Egana to build support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants.
The high-strength steel has a thick Galfan (95%Zn-5%Al) coating to prevent corrosion and extend product lifetime for power plants that can produce electricity for decades. Metal-coated high-strength steels enable the manufacture of stronger and lighter support structures. Deliveries began in December 2015 and will continue until October 2016.
The Noor II thermosolar plant to be built in Morocco will have an output of 200 megawatts and the Kathu plant to be built in South Africa will have an output of 100 megawatts. SSAB delivered the coated high-strength steels to the Noor I thermosolar plant built earlier in Morocco. When the Noor II plant is completed, the two plants together will have a combined output of 360 MW. The Kathu thermosolar plant in South Africa will provide electricity for about 80,000 homes.
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SSAB, Sweden, has agreed to deliver a total of 25,000 metric tons of metal-coated, high-strength steel to the Spanish company CIE Egana to build support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants.
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J.L. Becker Co. designs car bottom furnace for aerospace company
December 16, 2015
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J.L. Becker, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Co., Plymouth, Mich., recently shipped a car bottom furnace equipped with a 4.5 x 8 x 4-ft. work zone capable of handling an 8000-lb. load with a maximum operating temperature of 1900°F. Designed for a proprietary coating process, the furnace was custom designed for a large midwestern aerospace company and its specific needs. Furnace capabilities include stress relief, hardening, tempering, and preheating..
Becker has manufactured a full line of industrial heat treating equipment for over 40 years, including design, construction and service. The equipment includes both batch and continuous systems and specializes in Integral Quench (IQ), Tip Up, Box and Car Bottom furnaces, as well as a full line of replacement parts and auxiliary equipment, including atmosphere generators, quench tanks and charge cars.
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J.L. Becker, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Co., Plymouth, Mich., recently shipped a car bottom furnace equipped with a 4.5 x 8 x 4-ft. work zone capable of handling an 8000-lb. load with a maximum operating temperature of 1900°F.
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Rapid Plasma Deposition machine can 3D-print 22 tons of titanium parts per year
December 9, 2015
Source: ASM International
Norsk Titanium AS, Norway, demonstrated its fourth-generation Rapid Plasma Deposition machine by producing a unique structural titanium spar for one of the world’s largest commercial aircraft manufacturers at its Technology Centre in Oslo.
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Lockheed Martin commemorates the USS Milwaukee with custom motorcycle
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Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., announces that it has collaborated with Harley-Davidson on a one-of-a-kind motorcycle to honor the U.S. Navy and the city of Milwaukee, to commemorate the commissioning of the USS Milwaukee, our nation's fifth Littoral Combat Ship.
"We wanted to do something special for the occasion and support the families of our military men and women who sacrifice so much to protect our freedoms," said Stephanie C. Hill, Lockheed Martin vice president of Ship & Aviation Systems. "We're excited to collaborate with Milwaukee's own Harley-Davidson, a company that has been fulfilling dreams of personal freedom for over 100 years."
The motorcycle will be on display during USS Milwaukee Commissioning week, followed by appearances at U.S. Navy, industry, and STEM events over the next year, culminating with a charity auction to support the National Military Family Association (NMFA).
Harley-Davidson Chief Stylist Ray Drea designed the motorcycle, drawing inspiration from touring the Fincantieri Marinette Marine Corp. shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the Lockheed Martin-led industry team builds the Freedom-variant LCS. The design also honors historic WWII-era Harley-Davidson motorcycles to model some of the authentic Navy and military custom details.
The fifth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name Milwaukee, the ship will transit to its homeport in San Diego, California. There it will be integrated into the fleet, and the industry-Navy team will conduct additional program testing and crew training before she begins her first deployment.
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Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., announces that it has collaborated with Harley-Davidson on a one-of-a-kind motorcycle to honor the U.S. Navy and the city of Milwaukee, to commemorate the commissioning of the USS Milwaukee, our nation’s fifth Littoral Combat Ship.
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