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December 2019

ARTICLES

Combining cleanness, strength, and toughness for affordable power densification in steel components

Increased power density in mechanical power transmission components means greater durability — allowing existing designs to achieve greater capacity or reduced size and mass for light weighting. After decades of work on adjusting gear-manufacturing practices, improving surface finishes, and changing designs to improve performance, trends are now turning toward a focus on improved performance with […]
E. Buddy Damm

Nonlinear electromagnetic acoustic testing method for tensile damage evaluation 

This paper describes an approach for measuring material plasticity using contactless electromagnetic acoustic method. Harmonic generation from noncumulative fundamental longitudinal wave in specimen is studied based on numerical method, and the contribution to harmonic generation from tensile damage is shown to be higher than that from a geometric factor; more serious damages increase the amplitude […]
Zhichao Cai, Hao Cheng, Chengcheng Liu

NEWS

Companies announce high-temp aluminum alloy for AM

In a joint effort, QuesTek Innovations LLC and the German Aerospace Center will explore the full potential of QuesTek’s new printable aluminum (Al) alloy.  QuesTek Innovations LLC, a leading developer of metal alloys, announced that it has developed the new aluminum alloy for additive manufacturing. This alloy is capable of high-strength performance at elevated temperatures […]
December 15, 2019

Gasbarre supplies car bottom furnace to U.S. manufacturer

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems recently manufactured and commissioned a high temperature car bottom furnace for a Southern U.S. manufacturer of excavating equipment. The furnace has a work zone of 84 inches wide by 144 inches long by 48 inches high with a 16,000-pound load capacity. The operating temperature is 1,000°F (538°C) to 2,282°F (1250°C), and […]
December 15, 2019

Seco/Warwick wins third Innovation Leader award

Innovation Leader awards went to Seco/Warwick for the third time. The results of the company’s work include numerous patented and award-winning technologies solving the problems of the heat-treatment industry. However, the company continues work on new, revolutionary projects. The “Business Leader” event is a prestigious competition. The jury gives awards to the companies distinguished by […]
December 15, 2019

Allied Mineral Products opens precast shapes plant

Allied Mineral Products opened the doors to its newest precast shapes manufacturing facility near Johannesburg, South Africa. This marks Allied’s sixth precast shapes location worldwide. Shapes manufacturing brings an added benefit to South African customers. Some benefits include foundry crucibles, furnace structural parts, EAF deltas and spouts, tilters and skimmer blocks, dampers and divider walls, […]
December 15, 2019

Oregon Products commissions new Can-Eng system

Oregon Products awarded Can-Eng Furnaces a contract to design and commission a new heat-treatment system for Oregon’s production facilities. Oregon, a leading global manufacturer of saw chain and other replacement products for the forestry industry, plans to use the new continuous high-capacity mesh belt austemper heat-treat equipment as part of a long-standing commitment to continuous […]
December 15, 2019

Tenney vacuum drying oven reduces cycle

Tenney Environmental, a division of Thermal Product Solutions, has shipped a vacuum drying oven to the aerospace industry. This vacuum drying oven is designed to remove moisture from a large spacecraft engine after it goes through a washing process. The previous conventional method of drying took more than 12 hours due to the intricacy of […]
December 15, 2019

Gasbarre takes partner to expand footprint in Mexico

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems has partnered with Humberto Bastidas from Thermal Technic Furnace Solutions. Customers can now experience the benefit of having a Mexico resident who speaks Spanish to provide the best possible customer service. Bastidas has many years of experience in the heat-treating field and marketplace. Gasbarre will be working with Bastidas and his […]
December 15, 2019

TPS ships Gruenberg depyrogenation sterilizers

Thermal Product Solutions, a global manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment, announced the shipment of two Gruenberg depyrogenation sterilizers to the pharmaceutical industry. The units will be used for sterilizing pharmaceutical equipment. These pharmaceutical sterilizers have maximum temperature ratings of 280°C with work chamber dimensions of 36” W x 36” D x 53” H. The Gruenberg sterilizers […]
December 15, 2019

L&L ships box furnace with inert atmosphere

L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc., has shipped a Model FB1046 floor-standing box furnace to a worldwide leader of high-tech aerospace and associated components located in the Southeastern United States. The furnace will be used for processing aerospace parts and various thermal applications. The work zone is 120” wide by 48” high by 72” deep. The […]
December 15, 2019

Wisconsin Oven ships multi-zone curing ovens

Wisconsin Oven shipped two electrically heated multi-zone curing ovens to the composites industry. These ovens will be used to cure carbon fiber threads. One of the curing ovens has six zones, is rated for 250°C (482°F), and has work chamber dimensions of 19’0” wide x 16’4” long x 2’0” high. The second oven has two […]
December 15, 2019

Solar Manufacturing ships furnace to science/tech lab

Solar Manufacturing has shipped a vacuum furnace for processing additive manufactured parts to a large science and technology laboratory. The lab requires the furnace to further its research and development work. Built with Solar Manufacturing’s SolarVac® Polaris control system and a graphite-insulated hot zone, the furnace is designed to accommodate loads up to 36” wide […]
December 15, 2019

Grieve offers 1,050°F two-drawer cabinet oven for annealing

Grieve No. 1049 is a 1,050°F (566°C) cabinet oven with two drawers, currently used for annealing or normalizing processes at the customer’s facility. Workspace dimensions of this oven measure 39” W x 102” D x 51” H, with two drawers rated 250 lbs. loading with 36” wide x 78” deep x 15” high loading area. […]
December 15, 2019

Tenney Environmental vacuum drying oven reduces cycle time by 8 hours

Tenney Environmental, a division of Thermal Product Solutions, has shipped a vacuum drying oven to the aerospace industry. This vacuum drying oven is designed to remove moisture from a large spacecraft engine after it goes through a washing process. The previous conventional method of drying took more than 12 hours due to the intricacy of small diameter […]
December 4, 2019

Solar Manufacturing to build MuShield’s first vacuum furnace

The MuShield Co. of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has commissioned Solar Manufacturing to design its first vacuum furnace. The furnace, built with a SolarVac® Polaris control system and fully compliant to AMS2750E pyrometric specification, is designed to accommodate loads up to 36” wide x 36” high x 72” deep, and a maximum weight of 5,000 pounds. […]
December 4, 2019

Ipsen supplies four vacuum furnaces for additive manufacturing production

Ipsen USA received an order to supply an aerospace customer with four TITAN® H6 2 bar vacuum furnaces to heat treat additively manufactured parts in full-scale production. Ipsen shipped two of the furnaces in November and will ship the remaining two in January. “Ipsen has the industry’s best lead time with the TITAN® furnace. This, […]
December 4, 2019

Tenova and Chalco Ruimin sign FACs for two aluminum lines

Tenova and Chalco Ruimin Co., Ltd signed Final Acceptance Certificates for a continuous annealing line and a chemical pre-treatment line for processing aluminum strip coils. The new plant is located in the Fuzhou Economic Technical Development Area, on China’s South Eastern Coast. Chalco Ruimin Co., Ltd, is a company belonging to Aluminium Corporation of China […]
December 4, 2019

Voestalpine adds nitriding capabilities, named exclusive licensee for Czech Republic

Voestalpine AG’s High Performance Metals Division has expanded its heat-treatment capabilities with a Nitrex system for nitriding and surface hardening stainless steel. Nitrex Metal has entered into an exclusive agreement with Voestalpine AG, in the Czech Republic, to bring innovations in stainless steel hardening technologies to the Czech market. The new nitriding system, model NX-820, […]
December 4, 2019