Despatch Industries, Minneapolis, Minn., announces that its engineers have streamlined the manufacturing process for the Despatch LAC Benchtop Oven, reducing shipping time to three days or less, and within a week if standard options are added.
The Linde Group, Houston, has launched a combustion and heat treatment center in Suzhou, China, for development of new combustion and heat treatment applications and solutions in China and the Asia Pacific region.
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp., reports that its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, IBC Engineered Materials Corp., Wilmington, Mass., has received a purchase order from Kaman Corp. to supply Beralcast beryllium-aluminum imaging system components for U.S. naval and foreign military tactical aircraft.
Engineers at Saarland University have developed an artificial hand with muscles made from bundles of ultrafine nickel-titanium alloy wires that are able to tense and flex.
Curtiss-Wright Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has acquired certain assets and liabilities of Bolt’s Metallizing Inc., Phoenix, a leading provider of thermal spray coatings for critical aerospace applications.