Sandvik Materials Technology, Sweden, reports that a major Caribbean producer of furfural, an organic compound derived from agricultural byproducts, chose to replace the existing tube in its heat exchangers with hyper-duplex stainless steel by Sandvik.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s a bugbot! Micro Air Vehicles are the future of surveillance for the Air Force. The insect-sized drones of the future, otherwise known as bugbots, are unobtrusive and can sneak up on a suspected enemy as stealthily as a mosquito.
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.
