The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.
IMS has made a substantial improvement in the dissemination of metallographic knowledge and the effect of microstructure on service performance. IMS has had a vibrant history over the first 50 years of its existence, and we hope this will continue well into the 21st century.
The UK’s Contract Heat Treatment Association will again be partnering with the Surface Engineering Association and Wolfson Heat Treatment Centre in co-sponsoring the second “Surface Engineering & Heat Treatment Industry Conference/Exhibition” on October 13.
Sandvik Group, Sweden, announces that a new Product Area called Additive Manufacturing will be formed within Sandvik Machining Solutions.
Questek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., was recently awarded six separate projects from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army to develop technologies and design new alloys specifically tailored to the unique processing conditions and material-related challenges of additive manufacturing.
