Saarland University, Germany, reports that its engineers are using shape memory alloys to develop a new method of cooling in which heat and cold are transferred by a nickel-titanium alloy.
Shape memory Nitinol alloys designed to cool refrigerators
Steel forgings for windmills to be produced in joint venture
Sumitomo Corp., Japan, and the Japan Steel Works have formed a joint venture with Gerdau Steel, Brazil, to manufacture forged steel products for wind power generation.
Solar Atmospheres builds home for world’s largest vacuum furnace
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, announces that the construction project to house the largest commercial vacuum furnace in the world is progressing on time.
CEC supplies chain conveyor solution furnace for heat treating aluminum die castings
Consolidated Engineering Co. (CEC), Kennesaw, Ga., announces that it has received a purchase order for a four-zone natural gas-fired chain conveyor solution furnace for the T4 treatment of aluminum high-pressure die castings.
Harper to supply Australia with thermal processing system for nuclear waste
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y, has been awarded a contract to supply a hot cell Rotary thermal processing system to treat waste from nuclear medicine production at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).