Expanite opens a new heat treatment center in Ohio

Expanite, Denmark, announces that it has established a subsidiary in the United States known as Expanite Inc., and has opened a new heat treatment center in Twinsburg, Ohio, for surface hardening of stainless steel.

Award winning partnership protects the environment

JTEKT North America Corp. recently received the Award for Excellence in Pollution Prevention from the State of Tennessee by using a new technology from Houghton International in the manufacturing processes at its plant in Vonore.

Origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Tokyo have developed a new “zippered tube” configuration that makes paper structures stiff enough to hold weight yet able to fold flat for easy shipping and storage.