Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, announces the installation of a new high-temperature, high-purity, production-scale, 2-bar vacuum furnace in an environmentally controlled room for heat treating and brazing of small to mid-size loads.

Wall Colmonoy, Madison Heights, Mich., offers a spring session of Modern Furnace Brazing School on May 6-8 at the Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Brazing Engineering Center in Cincinnati.

Aichelin Holding GmbH, Austria., announces that Slovenian member company Bosio has successfully commissioned a 72 ft. pit furnace, a 72 ft. split type furnace, and a PLC controlled spray quenching unit of the same size for the heat treatment of turbine rotors with a length up to 52 ft. and a rotor weight up to 175 tons.

Researchers at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany, announce a functional coating that lubricates without grease and protects against corrosion at the same time.