The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first Martian year of exploration. This video shows some of the problems encountered and how NASA engineers dealt with them.
Curiosity Rover Report: Curiosity Completes Its First Martian Year
AFC-Holcroft to install UBQ batch furnace line at fastener manufacturer’s facility
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., is to install a complete UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) furnace line in one of Fastenal Company’s plants in Winona, Minnesota.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum acquires Northern Illinois Steel Supply
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has acquired all of the capital stock of Northern Illinois Steel Supply Co. (NIS), a value-added distributor and fabricator of a variety of steel and nonferrous metal products.
Siemens builds vacuum oxygen decarburization plant at Voestalpine Giesserei
Siemens Metals Technologies, Austria, has completed a vacuum oxygen decarburization (VOD) plant with a capacity of 50 metric tons at Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH.
ASM Fellow Paul Bania receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Titanium Association
ASM Fellow Dr. Paul J. Bania, titanium metallurgist, researcher, and inventor, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Titanium Association during the organization’s 30th annual conference in Chicago, September 21-24, 2014.