Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently installed a Titan V6 thermal processing vacuum system at a company’s facility in South Korea, where it will be used to process production tools for the petrochemical industry.
Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, has sold a VAV6648 HV-2 vertical vacuum furnace to an international airline company.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, have succeeded in reducing friction on steel parts by as much as 40% by etching surface patterns resembling those on the skin of reptiles.
RTI International Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that it has been selected to provide finished titanium structural parts to Airbus for its new A350-1000 aircraft program.
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons space probe is powered by plutonium. (No surprise there!) It will take 16 months for the probe to transmit all its data to Earth.
