Baker Furnace Inc., Yorba Linda, Calif., has shipped an electric oxidizing oven to a manufacturer of components for nuclear power plants to heat treat Inconel support trays that hold nuclear fuel cell rods in place.
Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it has completed the separation from its parent company Alcoa Inc. (now named Arconic Inc.) and has begun operating as an independent, publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AA.
Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the IsoMet High Speed, a precision sectioning machine designed specifically to create consistent and efficient cuts in metals and other materials using diamond or abrasive blades.
Iowa State University and its Ames Laboratory report that researchers have received a three-year, $2.8 million grant to develop a ductile electrical steel containing 6.5% silicon, twice the amount in electric motor steel today.
Most titanium is now made by the Kroll process, in which titanium dioxide is reacted with chlorine to form titanium etrachloride, which is then reacted with magnesium to strip away the chlorine and leave behind the pure metal.
