CVD Equipment Corporation, Central Islip, entered into a definitive agreement under which the Company’s Stainless Design Concepts (“SDC”) business division will become part of Atlas Copco Group, Sweden.
The deployable cold spray metal additive manufacturing technology from SPEE3D, Australia, enabled the Tennessee Army National Guard, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory to demonstrate the rapid repair of a combat support vehicle and other critical assets during a live mission scenario, enhancing military readiness.
The Helmut Fischer Group, Germany, introduced an all-new generation of its high-end segment for coating thickness measurement and material analysis using X-ray fluorescence with two devices, FISCHERSCOPE XDAL and FISCHERSCOPE XDV.
A $10 million programmatic increase at the Army Research Laboratory for rapid deposition research is anticipated to support cold spray engineering research at Florida International University.
As with all coating technologies, thermal spray has some limitations; understanding them is important so that engineers can design effective solutions to the challenges of surface modification.
