Constellium N.V., Paris, and UACJ Corp., Japan, have signed a Joint Venture Agreement to supply Body-in-White aluminum sheet to the North American automotive industry, following their January 2014 announcement of plans to collaborate.
Nikon Instruments Inc., Melville, N.Y., has added two new stereomicroscope systems to its product portfolio.
AK Steel, West Chester, Ohio, announces that Research Engineer and ASM International member Grant Thomas, Ph.D., has received the AISI “Finalist Medal” for the technical paper titled, “Tensile Properties Obtained by Quench & Partition Processing of Mn-Ni Steels at Room Temperature Quench Temperatures.”
Pradeep Rohatgi, Fellow of ASM International and Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, has been elected Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters.
Severstal, Russia, reportedly plans to sell its North American steel operations in Mississippi and Michigan for about $1.5 billion.
