Ipsen Group, Cherry Valley, Ill., will be shipping 27 vacuum furnaces to diverse customers and regions all over the world. Model types to be shipped include thirteen Titan furnaces, four TurboTreater furnaces, two vertical bottom-loading furnaces, two Turbo2Treaters, two VFCK (vacuum furnace with convection heating) models, one VFS HEQ (horizontal external quench), one MetalMaster, one Vacuum Oil Quench with AvaC carburizing, and one VTL (vertical top load) furnace.
GH Induction Atmospheres, Rochester, N.Y., has built an innovative induction heating machine that processes two automotive starter driveshaft parts every 16 seconds. A global automotive systems and components supplier contracted with GH IA to develop the machine specifically for a new starter driveshaft line. The design features dual vertical induction scanners with multiple power settings and scan speeds along each driveshaft.
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., offers its Universal Batch Intensive Quenching (UBIQ) furnace, developed for the growing IntensiQuench market. Intensive quenching is a very rapid and uniform cooling of steel parts that causes the simultaneous formation of martensite throughout the whole part surface, creating a firm shell. The strong martensite case or shell minimizes part distortion. Metallurgical processes include neutral hardening, carburizing, carbonitriding, normalizing, and annealing.
FEI Co., Hillsboro, Ore., introduces two DualBeam systems that feature high-quality imaging and fast analysis over the broadest range of samples. The Helios NanoLab 660 DualBeam adds capabilities for specialized applications, such as the fabrication of prototypes for nanometer-scale devices. As shown in the photo, EasyLift’s low-drift, high-precision movements allow simple and consistent creation of traditional TEM lamellae or ultra-thin lamellae via the inverted thinning technique.
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, used airbrushing techniques to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibers on several different metal substrates, opening the door for incorporating these nanofibers into gene delivery devices, sensors, batteries and other technologies.
