Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it shipped a large vertical vacuum aluminum brazing furnace to a major aerospace company, a longstanding customer. This furnace, the customer’s second vertical furnace, will be installed in Mexico. Two other TurboTreaters will be shipped to Southeast Asia for the same aerospace company. One of these furnaces will be used for high-pressure gas quenching; the other includes AvaC for low-pressure vacuum carburizing.
Assa Abloy group brands Frameworks, Graham Wood Doors, and Maiman Wood Doors, New Haven, Conn., teamed up to launch Serenity, the first wood door and aluminum frame sound-rated door opening solution.
Centorr Vacuum Industries, Nashua, N.H., has developed the MIM-Vac, a custom-engineered high temperature vacuum/ controlled-atmosphere furnace designed specifically for metal injection molding. Tight partial pressure control and even gas flow in conjunction with effective event-based programming and sound retort design allow the entire load to undergo the same series of conditions as a function of time.
7-year-old Sophie wrote a letter to research scientists at CSIRO, Melbourne, asking for a 3D printed dragon. Her letter, and CSIRO’s response, made an unexpected splash across the globe. Researchers then got to work creating, Toothless, a dragon 3D printed out of titanium, in Lab 22, an additive manufacturing facility in Melbourne. Scientists there have […]
Johnson Matthey Medical Components, West Chester, Pa., has introduced NitiBrite Nitinol wire, which features an exclusive one-step oxide removal process that completely eliminates the toxic HF acid solutions that cause embrittlement. Unlike other methods used to create oxide-free Nitinol wire, the NitiBrite process does not involve acid etch or costly mechanical polishing.
