Constellium completes the sale of its Landau, Crailsheim and Burg facilities

Constellium, Paris, announced the completion of the sale of three of its soft alloy extrusion facilities located in Landau, Crailsheim and Burg in Germany to Vaessen Aluminium, for a total cash consideration of €48.8 million. This announcement follows the completion of the regulatory approval process. https://www.constellium.com/news/constellium-completes-the-sale-of-its-landau-crailsheim-and-burg-facilities

Nitrex secures largest order In company history

Nitrex, Quebec, announced the receipt of a multi-million-dollar contract to provide a turnkey automated nitrocarburizing installation exclusively designed for the production of brake components for electric passenger vehicles. Under the contract, Nitrex will design, manufacture, commission, and test two cutting-edge continuous-line furnaces capable of processing millions of brake parts annually. The NXL furnace series, with […]

Early analysis of NASA’s first asteroid-return sample

NASA officials recently unveiled a powdery material—from pieces of the asteroid Bennu—that looked like asphalt or charcoal, but was easily worth more than its weight in diamonds. The fragments were collected and returned to Earth for materials analysis by the OSIRIS-REx mission. Early evaluations using electron microscopy revealed high carbon content. The samples hold chemical […]

Graphene’s new metallic relative: Molybdenene

Graphene, and other similar two-dimensional materials, exhibit fascinating properties such as superconductivity, extraordinary strength, and exotic quantum phenomena. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, along with partners from the Indian Institute of Technology in Patna and the Australian University of Newcastle, have now created a special material of this kind that exhibits a metallic character. It consists […]