Fort Wayne Metals acquires G&S Titanium to support new products and capabilities
April 17, 2018 Source: ASM International
Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., has acquired G&S Titanium, a company specializing in titanium and specialty alloy wire and bar drawing.
Continue readingOne-Minute Mentor: AerMet Alloys
April 16, 2018 Source: ASM International
The graph shows a comparison of AerMet alloys and maraging steels in terms of (a) ductility vs. specific strength and (b) Charpy V-notch impact toughness vs. specific strength.
Continue readingLucifer Furnaces builds dual chamber heat treating furnace for punch and die maker
Source: ASM International
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., has delivered a dual chamber fiber-lined furnace to a leading manufacturer of punches and dies in North America.
Continue readingFurnace for Nadcap and MedAccred features diffusion pump for high vacuum levels
April 13, 2018 Source: ASM International
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Midwest Thermal-Vac recently purchased a Titan vacuum furnace with 12-bar gas quenching for processing parts that need to comply with Nadcap and medical industry requirements such as MedAccred.
Continue readingEU-funded Plassteel process enables low-temperature plasma nitriding of stainless steels
Source: ASM International
Cordis, the information portal for European Union research, reports that engineers working on the EU-funded project Plassteel have developed an advanced process for low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels that allows improved corrosion resistance and accurate tailoring of material properties.
Continue readingNitrex potential-controlled nitriding system treats dies for aluminum extruded profiles
Source: ASM International
Nitrex Metal, St. Laurent, Quebec, announces that it has been awarded a contract by Qatar Aluminum Extrusion for the supply and installation of an NX-1015 potential-controlled gas nitriding system configured for treating various sizes of flat and hollow dies used in the production of aluminum extruded profiles for construction and transportation.
Continue readingJapanese researchers discover 16 million tons of rare-earth deposits in deep-sea mud
April 12, 2018 Source: ASM International
Several Japanese universities, research groups, and government agencies published an article in the April 10 edition of the online journal Scientific Reports describing results of their analysis of the rare-earth metals they discovered in deep-sea mud near Japan back in 2013.
Continue readingJSW Steel to invest $500 million in hot-end facility with contiguous large-diameter pipe mill
April 6, 2018 Source: ASM International
JSW Steel USA, Baytown, Texas, announces plans to invest up to $500 million to install the most technologically advanced and eco-friendly hot-end facility in the world, setting a new industry standard.
Continue readingHTS Honors Prime Contributors
April 5, 2018 Source: ASM International
In 2017, ASM’s Heat Treating Society R&D Committee established a new recognition for the best papers in the heat treat industry each year. To be considered for the ASM Heat Treating Society Prime Contributor recognition, papers must appear in either the HTPro quarterly newsletter or be published in ASM’s Heat Treat conference proceedings.
Continue readingSilicon Enhancement of the Compound Layer for Tribological Application of Nitrided Hot-Work Steel
April 2, 2018 Source: ASM International
This presentation from the Thermal Processing in Motion conference in June will discuss the enhancement of tribological surface properties and the thermal stability of nitrided layers made possible by a process in which plasma is doped with silicon-containing gasses, a technology known as Plasma Enhanced Nanostructures.
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