Medical company brings vacuum in-house
February 9, 2021 Source: ASM International
Nitrex, Quebec, Canada, delivered a horizontal front-loading vacuum furnace with 6 bar quench capability to a medical device company in the USA for vacuum heat treating of dies as well as critical medical parts.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Microalloyed Bainitic and Martensitic DHT Steels Technology
January 12, 2021 Source: ASM International
Bainitic and martensitic microstructures in direct heat treated steels are transformed by faster cooling directly after hot forging. The strength of bainitic microalloyed steel is improved by small additions of alloying elements such as molybdenum and boron and higher cooling rates after forging.
Continue readingPerryman increases titanium melting capacity
Source: ASM International
Perryman, Pennsylvania, announced today it will more than double its current titanium melting capacity through the addition of two new furnaces. The new furnaces will include one Electron Beam (EB) and one Vacuum Arc Remelt (VAR). They will be located with Perryman’s existing melting facilities on its California, Pa., campus. Once complete, the company’s total melt capacity will exceed 26 million pounds, placing Perryman among the world’s largest melters of aerospace quality titanium.
Continue readingBodycote opens new Illinois heat treatment facility
Source: ASM International
Bodycote, UK, has opened a new heat treatment facility at Elgin, Ill. Bodycote is the world’s largest provider of heat treatments and specialist thermal processing services. The upgraded Elgin facility provides improved capabilities for the agricultural, mining, construction, automotive and various other manufacturing supply chains in the Upper Midwest region. The new state of the art facility in Elgin offers nitriding, Corr-I-Dur, nitrocarburizing and low pressure carburizing solutions.
Continue readingSeco/Warwick supplies vacuum oil quenching furnace to the US Department of Defense
Source: ASM International
Seco/Vacuum, Pennsylvania, has supplied the US Department of Defense with a vacuum heat treating furnace with integral oil quench, high pressure gas quench, and low pressure carburizing capabilities. As a critical supplier of aerospace components to the U.S. Department of Defense, this new vacuum oil quenching furnace will be able to handle any of the functions of the department’s existing heat treatment furnaces, either in a redundant role or to provide additional capacity to any of them.
Continue readingHarper and Novonix announce strategic alliance on specialized furnace technology for battery materials
Source: ASM International
Harper, Buffalo, N.Y., has announced a strategic alliance with Novonix Limited to develop specialized furnace technology designed to enhance synthetic graphite manufacturing process. This provides Novonix a local, established supplier of key equipment to produce greater quantities of material and scale quickly and cost effectively. This is, in turn, aimed at supporting electric vehicles and energy storage systems.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: New grain-size control technology based on oxide metallurgy
December 8, 2020 Source: ASM International
Oxide metallurgy enables the development of new grain-size control technology based on the use of inclusions such as MnS, oxides, and nitrides as precipitate nucleation sites. This has made possible the production of high-strength and high-toughness microalloyed steels, and contributed to the expansion of direct heat treatment applications even to highly stressed automotive suspension components.
Continue readingConstellium’s Bowling Green facility receives award for lowering carbon emissions
Source: ASM International
Constellium’s facility at Bowling Green, Kentucky has been recognized as an “exemplary environmental steward” by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The plant produces flat-rolled aluminum auto body sheet products for the automotive market in North America and has a capacity of 100,000 metric tons annually.
Continue readingHarper International completes factory acceptance testing at 2000°C of graphite rotary tube furnace
Source: ASM International
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of a new continuous, graphite rotary tube furnace at 2000°C for a global chemical manufacturer. The furnace will process refractory metal powders in hydrogen and inert atmospheres.
Continue readingAccurate Brazing to add second hot isostatic press unit
Source: ASM International
Accurate Brazing, New Hampshire, a provider of specialized heat-treating solutions will add a second hot isostatic press unit in 2021 to its Greenville, SC facility. The model QIH 122 M URC press is equipped with the Quintus proprietary uniform rapid cooling (URC) feature, which combines HIP and heat treatment in a single process.
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