Lindberg/MPH ships aluminum melting and holding furnace

Lindberg/MPH, Mich., has announced the shipment of a gas-fired reverberatory aluminum melting and holding furnace equipped with a preheat hearth. The furnace, designed for manufacturing aluminum parts, boasts a melt rate of 10,000 pounds per hour and a maximum temperature rating of 1450°F. It has a holding capacity of 85,000 pounds, based on 155 pounds […]

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Metal with nanoscale voids is mechanically superior to void-free samples

A research team led by Prof. JIN Haijun from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently proposed a radical new way to view voids that counters the traditional perspective that fatal flaws must be eliminated in manufacturing. They suggest that the presence of voids is not always hazardous. Instead, voids can be beneficial if they are added “properly” in the material.

How did ancient Egyptians manufacture mirrors?

See the innovative research from the University of Liverpool that developed a new, minimally destructive method for analyzing ancient Egyptian mirrors using flat edge abrasion to expose hidden metal before conducting detailed examinations in a large SEM chamber, helping to determine how these artifacts were manufactured.