Ambrell Inc., Scottsdale, N.Y., is exhibiting its Easyheat induction heating system with robotics from Nutek Industrial Systems, Broadview Heights, Ohio, at the Heat Treat Expo. Additionally, tooling from Induction Tooling (ITI) will be on display in booth 2102, and a newly designed modular Ekoheat will be exhibited. The Ekoheat line now offers power up to 1.2 MW, enabling the product line to address higher power heat treating applications.
MSC Software Corp., Newport Beach, Calif., announced the new release of Marc 2013.1 which provides engineers with faster nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) with new modeling options and increased ease of use. Performance improvements that take advantage of the modern multi-core processors are implemented. This may be used in conjunction with domain decomposition (DDM) and/or the parallel solution of equations of motion.
Sematech, Albany, N.Y., announces that Air Products and Chemicals, Allentown, Pa., has joined its Front End Processes program, and will work with Sematech to assess advanced materials and technologies for the development of sub-10 nm node III-V devices. Continued scaling will require new materials and chemistries to keep pace with the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.
Thermal Spray Technologies, Sun Prairie, Wis., has celebrated one million hours with no lost time.. “One million hours with no lost time is a notable accomplishment in an industry with a high potential for injury,” said John Fehl, a member of the Thermal Spray Technologies production team. Generally, manufacturing companies experience workplace injuries every one to two months.
Aluminum recycling has become a successful business since its inception a century ago. Nearly a third of the aluminum produced in the United States is made from aluminum scraps that have been recycled in a process-usually remelting-that uses only 5-10% of the energy it takes to extract aluminum from mined bauxite ore.
