Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped an AvaC (acetylene vacuum carburizing) two-chamber gas/oil quench vacuum furnace to a facility in Connecticut where it will be used to process sports equipment.
Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the AMH55 hardness testing system with advanced image-recognition technology, which allows analysis of information not available with limited threshold-based methods.
The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4 g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.
January 2016 Issue of Advanced Materials & Processes, featuring: Advanced Manufacturing, 3D Printing Blasts Off; Room Temperature Metallic Glue; Linear Friction Welding Update; and Joining Dissimilar Metals
SSAB, Sweden, has agreed to deliver a total of 25,000 metric tons of metal-coated, high-strength steel to the Spanish company CIE Egana to build support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants.
