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Aerospace Company Orders Four Vacuum Furnaces

Ipsen USA was awarded an order to supply a West Coast aerospace customer with four 2-bar vacuum furnaces that will be used for heat treat...

Cleveland-Cliffs to Acquire AK Steel

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and AK Steel, a leading producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel products, entered into a def...

MuShield Orders First Vacuum Furnace

The MuShield Co. of Londonderry, N.H., commissioned Solar Manufacturing to build its first vacuum furnace. The furnace is designed to acc...

Steel Dynamics Expansion Includes Induction Furnace, Billet Welder

A rolling-mill expansion at Steel Dynamics’ facility in Columbia City, Ind., includes a new billet welder and an induction furnace....

Manufacturer Orders Walk-in Oven

Wisconsin Oven Corp. shipped an indirect-gas-fired walk-in oven to a manufacturer in the technology industry. The heavy-duty oven, which ...

Solar Atmospheres Builds Brazing, Assembly Room

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA completed construction of a new brazing and assembly room. Though built primarily to accommodate a large ...

Siemens to Supply PEM Electrolysis Plant to Steelmaker

Germany’s Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH awarded a contract to build a 2.2-MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis plant to Siem...

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Furnaces with Tungsten Heating Elements Make High Product Quality Possible

High-temperature furnaces must withstand high temperatures that melt materials, such as titanium, without damage. …

Melting/Forming/Joining

Metal Additive Manufacturing without Melting

Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM), developed by Fabrisonic, combines a unique room-temperature metal-deposition process with the ease of traditional CNC milling. …

Heat Treating

The Overlooked Efficiency Opportunity: Intelligent Process Cooling

Gary Burgardt

Serving as an alternative to traditional process-cooling methods, this technology improves operational costs and enhances equipment efficiencies. …

Dosing Furnaces for Foundries

StrikoWestofen

Nine Westomat dosing furnaces from StrikoWestofen underpin die-casting operations at Lenaal’s industrial aluminum and zinc parts manufacturing facility in Radom, Poland. The plant installed its first furnace in 2007. …

Materials Characterization & Testing

Bringing Machine Learning to Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steelmaking

Dr. Ellis Robinson

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research are bringing computer-vision and machine-learning techniques to the study of inclusions, hoping to increase the efficiency of inclusion …

Heat Treating

Most-Viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating Articles

Bill Mayer

Just as we’ve done in the past with other topics, Industrial Heating will take a look at the most-viewed Vacuum/Surface Treating articles (in terms of page views) on our website. …

Heat Treating

Optimizing Case-Depth Uniformity

The use of vacuum technology for carburizing has always shown the most potential for improving the manufacturing process by reducing both processing time and the number of manufacturing steps required …

Furnace Reactor Tower Complete at HBI Facility

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. completed the erection of the 457-foot furnace reactor tower for its hot briquetted iron (HBI) project in Toledo, Ohio. The furnace tower was the key critical path item in facilitating the advanced start-up date for the commercial production of HBI.

Mixed Materials for Lightweighting

When automakers began the lightweighting journey, it was clearly a steel-versus-aluminum conversation. Arguments can be made for one or the other. However, a new contender in this battle has emerged. It appears that a mix of materials may be the way to go.

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Facts about the Elements: Chlorine

By Daniel H. Herring

We continue to review some of the most important materials in heat treatment and metallurgy.

What is failure analysis? (part 2)

By Debbie Aliya

Trends and Developments in Heat-Treatment Technology (part 2)

By David Pye

Lockheed Martin Lands Huge NASA Order

NASA and Lockheed Martin finalized a contract for the production and operations of six Orion spacecraft missions and the ability to order up to 12 in total. Orion is NASA's deep space exploration spaceship that will carry astronauts from Earth to the Moon and bring them safely home.

Steel Mill Powered by Wind

Nucor is building a $250 million micromill in Sedalia, Mo., that will run on wind energy – a first for U.S. steel production. Kansas City-based utility Evergy Inc. will bring a new wind farm online to supply the plant, which is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2019.

Video: Forging a Dagger

This five-minute video shows a blacksmith in Portland, Ore., making a dagger. Arnon Kartmazov combines art and science to get an impressive finished product.

Aluminum Wine Bottle Available

An aluminum wine bottle was unveiled at the Ontario Craft Brewers Conference. The KinsBrae PortaVino is a personal-size, resealable aluminum bottle designed specifically for wine. The lightweight, 250-ml bottle is inexpensive to ship and recyclable.

Industrial Heating

2019 December

Check out the December 2019 issue of Industrial Heating, featuring "Metal Additive Manufacturing without Melting", "Furnaces with Tungsten Heating Elements Make High Product Quality Possible", and much more.

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