ThyssenKrupp Carbon Components, Germany, and Maxion Wheels, Novi, Mich., announce a cooperative agreement to develop and market ultra-lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber hybrid wheels for the premium vehicle OEM market.
“The Bright World of Metals” trade fair quartet in Düsseldorf, Germany, closed to extremely positive results, with 78,000 visitors from more than 120 countries.
SEMI, San Jose, Calif., has published its May update to the World Fab Forecast, reporting on more than 200 facilities with equipment spending in 2015, and more than 175 facilities projected to spend in 2016.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, have reportedly developed a process that could enable the efficient recycling of two rare earth metals, neodymium and dysprosium.
Engineers at Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., explain that by properly tuning the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) settings in the furnace controller, users can ensure that the furnace reaches and maintains the correct setpoint temperature.
