Nitrex, Quebec, announced the receipt of a multi-million-dollar contract to provide a turnkey automated nitrocarburizing installation exclusively designed for the production of brake components for electric passenger vehicles. Under the contract, Nitrex will design, manufacture, commission, and test two cutting-edge continuous-line furnaces capable of processing millions of brake parts annually. The NXL furnace series, with […]
NASA officials recently unveiled a powdery material—from pieces of the asteroid Bennu—that looked like asphalt or charcoal, but was easily worth more than its weight in diamonds. The fragments were collected and returned to Earth for materials analysis by the OSIRIS-REx mission. Early evaluations using electron microscopy revealed high carbon content. The samples hold chemical […]
Graphene, and other similar two-dimensional materials, exhibit fascinating properties such as superconductivity, extraordinary strength, and exotic quantum phenomena. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, along with partners from the Indian Institute of Technology in Patna and the Australian University of Newcastle, have now created a special material of this kind that exhibits a metallic character. It consists […]
Solvus Global (SG), Leominster, Mass., and Metal Powder Works (MPW), Clinton, Pa., announced a strategic alliance in the development of new materials, a groundbreaking collaboration that will move the needle on the future of powder production for the advanced manufacturing industry. A pivotal aspect of this collaboration is Solvus Global’s acquisition of a Metal Powder […]
ASG AMF Engineering, a precision engineering company known for manufacturing components and assemblies for research facilities across Europe, announced a significant investment in an additional factory in Wirral, England. The company will continue to retain its existing premises for machining, creating additional space for future investment. It has enabled the company to increase the size […]
