Constellium, Paris, has been ranked on Forbes’ inaugural list of the world’s top female-friendly companies.

Oerlikon Metco Coating Services, NC, has announced that the company’s new laser cladding service center is fully operational in Huntersville, NC, a suburb of Charlotte NC.

Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., has commissioned a new high-production vacuum furnace thereby doubling hydriding and de-hydriding capacity in the reclamation process of high-value titanium and tantalum materials.

NanoAL LLC, Ashland, Mass., has announced that it has been awarded a 2021 Stage 1 Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for the “Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric applications” (CABLE) program.

SECO/WARWICK , Meadville, Pa., will deliver a Vector vacuum furnace to one of the largest European machinery groups. The device will be used for hardening and tempering processes, and its design has been customized in order to meet the needs of a special and demanding process which is the hardening of aviation steel.

Centorr Vacuum industries, Nashua, NH, has announced that they are building six high-temperature high-vacuum furnaces for precision heat treating, brazing, and annealing applications. The furnaces are from their Workhorse product line.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., has discovered a new and practical path toward manufacturing titanium with high ductile strength. The technique relies on low-temperature cryoforging to create nanotwinned titanium, which has 30% more ductility than normal titanium.