Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems partners with heat treating company in Mexico
November 12, 2019
Source: ASM International
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, St. Marys, Pa., announces that it has formed a partnership with Humberto Bastidas from Thermal Technic Furnace Solutions in Mexico. Current and future customers can now experience the benefit of having a local Mexico resident who speaks Spanish and prides himself on providing the best possible customer service.
Mr. Bastidas has many years of experience in the heat treating field and is well acquainted with the Mexican marketplace. In addition to the Mexico location, the Gasbarre team will be working with Mr. Bastidas and his team to launch a Spanish version of Gasbarre.com in the coming weeks, and will assist with other marketing efforts in that region.
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems has been designing, manufacturing, and servicing a full line of industrial thermal processing equipment for over 40 years. Gasbarre specializes in Temper, Tip Up, Mesh Belt, Nitriding, Box, Car Bottom, Pit, and Vacuum Furnaces. It also offers a full line of replacement parts and auxiliary equipment, such as atmosphere generators, washers, quench tanks, and charge cars. Gasbarre also custom designs and manufactures thermal processing equipment to meet specific needs. The company continues to service and support Sinterite brand equipment.
www.gasbarre.com
Novelis invests $36 million to expand closed-loop automotive aluminum scrap recycling
November 3, 2019
Source: ASM International
Novelis Inc., Atlanta, has broken ground on a $36 million investment to expand and upgrade recycling capacity at its facility in Greensboro, Georgia.
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One Minute Mentor: Duplex hardening of bearing steels
October 14, 2019
Source: ASM International
Duplex hardening of M-50 and M50NiL provides a hard, wear-resistant surface that exhibits high damage tolerance and damage resistance to hard-particle contamination.
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United States Steel invests $700 million in joint venture with Big River Steel
October 10, 2019
Source: ASM International
United States Steel, Pittsburgh, announces that it has formed a joint venture partnership agreement under which it has taken the first step toward acquiring Big River Steel through the purchase of a 49.9% ownership interest at a purchase price of approximately $700 million in cash, with a call option to acquire the remaining 50.1% within the next four years.
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One-Minute Mentor: Special Purpose Through-Hardening Bearing Steels
September 4, 2019
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Through-hardening bearing steels from the ASTM A295 and A485 families that are given a typical heat treatment, operate well up to the 120–135 °C (250–275 °F) service range. Other through-hardening bearing steels have been developed over the years for use in specialty applications in higher temperature service or in atmospheric corrosive environments.
Some of these steels and service environments in which they operate:
Tool steels
M50 (jet engines, other aerospace applications up to 430 °C (800 °F)
M62 (high temperature, high stress applications)
T5 and T15 (high temperature, high stress applications)
Corrosion-resistant steels
Cronidur 30 (high temperature, corrosive applications)
BG42 (high temperature, corrosive applications; stable to 430 °C, or 900 °F)
XD15NW (high temperature, corrosive applications)
Type 440C (ambient temperature atmospheric corrosion)
440 N-DUR (ambient temperature atmospheric corrosion)
These special purpose steels were modified and tailored for their respective service environments. Because several of them are used in aerospace applications, they are also subject to specialized melting practices, such as consumable electrode vacuum melting (CEVM) and vacuum induction melted-vacuum arc remelting (VIM-VAR), which provide very low-inclusion content microstructures.
These high cleanliness specialty steels must be heat treated with care as they still are subject to the previously described restrictions of air-melted through-hardening steels, and certain precautions must be taken during high hot-working temperatures and heat treating.
For more information, click on the link below (subscription required), then scroll down the Chapter Contents column on the left of the page, and click on "Special Purpose Through-Hardening Bearing Steels."
https://dl.asminternational.org/handbooks/book/9/chapter/110017/Heat-Treatment-of-Bearings
Through-hardening bearing steels from the ASTM A295 and A485 families that are given a typical heat treatment, operate well up to the 120–135 °C (250–275 °F) service range.
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Can-Eng Furnaces awarded contract for a rapid heating furnace for aluminum components
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Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from a research organization for the supply of a rapid heating furnace for lightweight hot-stamped and formed aluminum automotive product development. This organization will integrate the aluminum sheet heating furnace with existing equipment to support both automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers throughout North America for the development of new safety-critical lightweight structural components.
Can-Eng was chosen for this project because it provides significant experience in development of lightweight, thin-walled automotive structural components. The result of this experience and collaboration provides the customer with a unique rapid heating furnace system that offers significant reduction in floor space requirements, flexibility for processing a wide range of product sizes, and flexible operating temperatures required for various stamped and formed products. The system will be fully integrated with flexible robotic handling and material handling automation.
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Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from a research organization for the supply of a rapid heating furnace for lightweight hot-stamped and formed aluminum automotive product development.
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Lindberg hot stamping furnace features one low-heat and three high-heat stacked chambers
August 6, 2019
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Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated four chamber hot-stamping furnace to the Gestamp Research and Development facility located in Auburn Hills, Mich. Gestamp is an international corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures metal automotive components.
The hot stamping furnace features one stack of three high-heat chambers and one low-heat chamber. The maximum temperature rating of the high-heat chambers is 1920°F and the low-heat chamber is 1000°F. Each furnace chamber was designed with load space dimensions of 36 x 30 x 8 inches.
The furnace is integrated at the Gestamp facility with a robotic transfer system and hydraulic hot stamping press. The four chambers operate independently, with the top chamber designated for aluminum treatment. This type of hot stamping system allows the customer the flexibility to treat different steels simultaneously, and has a much smaller footprint than a continuous system. Click here to view a video of the integrated hot stamp furnace at the Gestamp facility.
Lindberg/MPH hot-stamping furnaces are available in batch or multiple batch style configurations, and are designed to heat any structural size or shaped part. They can be designed with rapid and selective heating areas, fast opening doors to meet any loading/unloading speeds, and data acquisition systems for full process reporting.
www.lindberg.com
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated four chamber hot-stamping furnace to the Gestamp Research and Development facility located in Auburn Hills, Mich.
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Seco Vacuum provides high-volume nitrocarburizing furnaces for auto supplier
August 5, 2019
Source: ASM International
Seco Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., announces an order for a high-volume nitrocarburizing line of furnaces serving a major carmaker through a tier-one supplier.
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Quaker Chemical and Houghton International combine to form new industrial fluids company
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Quaker Chemical Corp., Conshohocken, Pa., and Houghton International, Valley Forge, Pa., have combined to create Quaker Houghton, a global leader in industrial process fluids to the primary metals and metalworking markets. Along with the new name, the company revealed a new logo and brand representing the combined companies.
Their combined breadth of product and service offerings can be found in end-markets such as aerospace, aluminum, automotive, machinery, can manufacturing, industrial parts manufacturing, mining, offshore, steel, and tube and pipe industries.
With its expanded products and services portfolio, the company expects that cross-selling opportunities will facilitate continued above-market growth. Specific products the company offers include metal cutting and forming fluids, corrosion protection fluids, specialty hydraulic fluids, and steel and aluminum rolling oils.
In addition, legacy-Houghton customers will benefit from Quaker’s strength in specialty greases, high-pressure die casting, mining specialties, surface treatment and bio-based lubricants, while legacy-Quaker customers will now have access to Houghton’s heat treatment quenchants, offshore hydraulic fluids, metal finishing products, and a broader metal removal fluids portfolio.
In the first year, the company’s focus will be to maintain service levels for its customers and ensure no supply chain disruptions, while successfully executing its integration plans. In year two, the revenue synergies will begin to be visible as the company expects to grow above the market by 2% to 4% as it has in the past.
The company also expects to continue to grow through acquisitions, which remain part of its core growth strategy. In the short term, the company will focus on paying down debt, but will continue to consider smaller acquisitions that can create value. Both Quaker and Houghton have long histories of building value through acquisitions.
www.quakerhoughton.com
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Quaker Chemical Corp., Conshohocken, Pa., and Houghton International, Valley Forge, Pa., have combined to create Quaker Houghton, a global leader in industrial process fluids to the primary metals and metalworking markets.
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MS&T 2019 Symposium: Advanced High Strength Steels / From Design to End Users
July 16, 2019
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This Symposium will focus on recent achievements in Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) development, from innovations in steel production and post-processing, to forming parts through various approaches and end-use applications.
Over the past decade, the steel industry has been making a sustained effort to fulfill the needs of modern technological progress for continuously growing demand for property enhancement. Many existing strategies are being pursued towards this goal; however, challenges still exist in AHSS utilization related to its formability for lightweighting applications such as body parts and components for automotive industry.
The aim of this Symposium is to foster interaction and communication between materials scientists, designers, and end users to share achievements in materials properties and performance of AHSS, bridging the gap between laboratory studies on small/subsize samples to those found from commercial sheet and stamped parts produced on an industrial scale.
Organizers: Alla V. Sergueeva, Daniel James Branagan, The NanoSteel Company
To see the list of 21 presentations scheduled for this symposium, visit
http://www.matscitech.org/MST19/TechnicalProgram
Click on “Technical Program†and scroll down to “Iron and Steel (Ferrous Alloys)â€
This Symposium will focus on recent achievements in Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) development, from innovations in steel production and post-processing, to forming parts through various approaches and end-use applications.
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