Alcoa, Pittsburgh, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Firth Rixson, a global leader in aerospace jet engine components, from Oak Hill Capital Partners, for $2.85 billion in cash and stock.
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that Specialty Steel Treating is adding a new Universal Batch Quench integral quench furnace to its facility in Fraser, Mich.
CMI Industry Groupe, Belgium, parent company of CMI Industry Americas, Salem, Ohio, announces that it will provide a heat treatment furnace at the Advanced Forming Research Center in Glasgow, Scotland, to carry out a range of combustion tests to develop new metal processing techniques for aerospace alloys.
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the company has been awarded $4 million from AmericaMakes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
Vac Aero, Quebec, announces that fully integrated high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) systems based on a new generation Carbide Jet System have been installed in two of its plants in Poland.
