Arconic Inc., New York, plans to invest $137 million to install a new horizontal heat treat furnace at its Davenport Works facility in Iowa to heat treat longer and thicker plate than ever before.
Materion Corp., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, announces that the Society of Automotive Engineers – Aerospace Material specification Nonferrous Alloys Committee (SAE-AMS) has approved specification of AMS4368 for Materion’s SupremEX 640XA aluminum composite.
This is a flapjack maker that operates like a 3D printer to create fun pancake designs. Based on a combination of compressed air pressure and vacuum suction, it reproduces drawings and designs on a 19.25 x 10.25-inch griddle by strategically dispensing pancake batter.
For a metal additive manufactured part to achieve final geometric dimensions with required precision, the desired surface finish, and obtain specified material properties, an entire value chain of processes must be used that includes conventional materials manufacturing processes.
Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, announces that its Carpenter Powder Products business has recently released new data from testing of its CarTech Puris 5+ titanium powder, showing that it exceeds the standard Ti 6Al-4V Grade 5 strength levels by nearly 18%.
