MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., announces that it has acquired 100% of the shares of Roehrig Engineering Inc., Lexington, N.C., the leader in testing systems utilizing electric and electromagnetic actuation technology.
ALD Vacuum Technologies, Germany, recently developed a heat treatment cell called ALD-SyncroTherm, which provides synchronized heat treatment by small batch processing.
Nitrex Metal Inc., Montreal, Quebec, reported at the AeroMat 25 conference on its Nano-S nitriding technology designed primarily for surface hardening of stainless steels to improve wear and galling resistance.
The National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, reports that engineers have developed room-temperature-printed electronics, by which electronic devices can be manufactured at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions.