Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has opened another plant in Waukesh, Wis. The 30,000-square-foot existing facility will increase the capacity of the industrial oven manufacturer’s existing four plants in East Troy. The expansion will help Wisconsin Oven continue to design and manufacture a broad line of heating equipment . The company’s standard or custom industrial ovens are used for a multitude of applications, such as heat treating.
Aichelin to supply quench furnace to auto plant in India
Aichelin Group, Modling, Austria, announces that a new order for a 1500-kg electrically heated quench furnace installation has been received from Renault Nissan Automotive Ltd., for its automotive assembly plant in Chennai, India. The order reportedly consists of four sealed quench furnaces and accessories, including a tempering and preheating furnace, a washer, and other related equipment, to be supplied in phases until April 2015.
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Pure Oxygen Anode technology produces aluminum with half the energy
Infinium Metals Inc., Natick, Mass., has received a grant from ARPA-E and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to commercialize its Pure Oxygen Anode technology. The process is said to enable three to five times higher production output per footprint than conventional processes, with virtually no emissions. It reduces cost by cutting in half the energy required and by eliminating the need for consumable graphite anodes.
Small amounts of arsenic reduce corrosion rate in magnesium
Monash University, Australia, announces that a research team has discovered that adding 0.37% arsenic to magnesium reduces the corrosion rate significantly. Mass loss following seven days of immersion in 0.1M NaCl was 1.75 x 10-4 g/cm3/day for pure magnesium, but only 0.5 x10-4 g/cm3/day for Mg-0.37wt.% As. The addition of very low levels of arsenic to magnesium retards the corrosion reaction by effectively ‘poisoning’ the reaction before it completes.




