Nitrex Metal, St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada, has sold a compact nitriding system to Altest Ltd.at its Bulgarian plant to nitride aluminum extrusion dies. The NXK-412 system has a capacity of 880 lb., and is supplied with Nitreg technology, a neutralizer, and an ammonia purification system. Altest opted for a nitriding system with a higher capacity than their current requirements to keep pace with expansion plans that will see its extrusion capacity double by next year.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency is requesting assistance on identifying materials critical to military and essential civilian needs. To ensure consideration of all materials important to the U.S. Department of Defense, the agency is seeking survey responses to be received before the end of July from organizations and experts who are concerned with availability of critical materials.
NIST is hosting the following webinars to report on the recent Materials Genome Initiative Grand Challenges Summit and to solicit feedback from interested parties. The Summit had break-out sessions on five materials technology areas and is conducting a one-hour webinar for each. They anticipate 20 minutes for the break-out chairs to report the findings of the Summit, followed but a 15 minute feedback session where attendees can offer comments and ask questions. Email the links below to sign up.
Stanley Abkowitz, founder, president, and CEO of Dynamet Technology Inc., Burlington, Mass., will accept the International Titanium Association’s (ITA) 2013 Titanium Applications Development Award at the TITANIUM 2013 conference, held Oct. 6-9 at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Dynamet has pioneered the development and application of titanium powder metal (PM Ti) technology for four decades.
Picodeon Ltd., li, Finland, developed ColdAb ultra-short pulsed laser deposition technology (US PLD) for use in the application of gold and platinum thin films, enabling thinner films and thereby reducing precious metal costs. Precious metals like gold and platinum are finding more and more industrial applications in memory storage, energy harvesting, energy storage, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) applications.
