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HP Opens 3D Printing Center of Excellence

HP Inc. opened its 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain. The facility brings together hundreds ...

Strand Retires After 33 Years at Wisconsin Oven

Dave Strand was hired by Wisconsin Oven Corp. as a shop worker in 1986. In 2019, he retires as president and CEO of Thermal Product Solut...

Baosteel Expansion Includes Furnace, Induction Heaters

Fives received an order from Baosteel, the largest automotive steel producer in China, to supply the complete thermal portion for a conti...

Aerospace Manufacturer Installs Box Retort Furnace

L&L Special Furnace Co. Inc. shipped and installed a box retort furnace to a manufacturer of aerospace components located in the sout...

IHEA Fall Seminar Series Returns to Cleveland

The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) heads to Cleveland, Ohio, for its 2019 Fall Seminars and Fall Business Conference. Th...

ParkOhio Acquires Erie Press Systems

ParkOhio completed the previously announced acquisition of Erie Press Systems (formally EFCO Inc.) of Erie, Pa. Erie Press manufactures a...

Liberty Steel Acquires Johnstown Wire Technologies

Liberty Steel, part of the global GFG Alliance, acquired Johnstown Wire Technologies (JWT) of Johnstown, Pa., the largest producer of val...

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Graphite Heat Exchangers Handle Corrosive Applications

Graphite heat exchangers are well suited and cost effective for highly corrosive processes used in industries such as metallurgy. …

Heat Treating

Projecting a Vacuum Furnace Leak Rate Based on Initial Pumping and Blank-off Pressure Level

Reàl J. Fradette William R. Jones

The overall furnace design and volume determines the required throughput of the pumping system and the ultimate vacuum expected. …

Heat Treating

Through-Process Temperature Profiling for Heat-Treat Efficiency

Dr. Steve Offley

For anyone involved in industrial heating, a critical need of any heat-treatment process is the ability to measure and control both process and product temperature. …

Industrial Gases & Atmospheres

The State of the Natural Gas Market

Alex Paciga

At this time last year, we saw a natural gas market emerge from the winter demand season in a volatile state. …

Heat Treating

Nitriding of Powder-Metal Components

E. Rolinski M. Woods

The application of ion/plasma nitriding to powder-metal (PM) products is recommended over the gas nitriding method. Ion/plasma nitriding results in surface hardening while gas nitriding causes unintended through-nitriding, making the treatment …

Determining the Optimal Induction Process for Your Application

David Lynch

An induction process consists of an induction power supply that passes a high-frequency alternating current (AC) through an inductor. …

Heat Treating

Metallurgical Quality for Heat-Treated Gears

Kelsey Torboli Henry Udomon Ph.D

Gears perform the critical functions of transmitting power or carrying motion in mechanical assemblies. …

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Erik Klingerman

I would like to say first, to our readers, advertisers, contributors and partners, THANK YOU! As the new group publisher for the Thermal Processing Group at BNP Media, I’m looking forward to continuing to build on our longstanding brands.

Forge a Dead Body into a Diamond

It turns out that a person’s remains do not have to be stored in an urn after cremation. If you can believe it, the ashes of the dead can be forged into diamonds. This is possible because carbon is the second-most abundant element in the body, and diamonds are made of crystallized carbon.

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Blogs

Trademark Damages

By Thomas Joseph

The determination of damages for trademark infringement or unfair competition is not as uniform as in patent cases or copyright cases because the enforcement of trademarks can be governed by federal substantive law, state law or both.

Facts about the Elements: Palladium

By Daniel H. Herring

Retained Austenite Problem by Carburizing (part 1)

By David Pye

$89 Million Available for Manufacturing Technologies

Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced $89 million to support innovative, advanced manufacturing research and development projects. The Department of Energy Funding Opportunity announcement (FOA) requests proposals in three areas that will improve the global competitiveness of the U.S. by catalyzing innovation around manufacturing of key energy technologies and by reducing industrial process energy intensity.

Forging Process Crucial to New Putter

A golf equipment company is using a multi-step forging process to manufacture a line of putters. Ben Hogan Golf Equipment Co. introduced four new models that are CNC precision-milled from soft, 1020 carbon steel in a multi-step forging process that strengthens and purifies the molecular structure of the metal to give consistent distance control across the face.

Canadian Railcars Made of Normalized Steel

The Canadian government updated regulations on railroad tank cars transporting toxic inhalation hazard (TIH) substances. Effective July 2021, the head and shell of these railcars will be required to be made of normalized steel. The service life of the cars will be extended to 50 years, which is consistent with the United States.

Cummins Invests in AM Technology

Cummins Inc. added to its additive manufacturing (AM) capabilities by investing in binder jetting, a technology where a print head moves across a bed of powder and selectively deposits a liquid binding agent in the shape of the section, bonding these areas together to form a solid part one layer at a time.

Industrial Heating

2019 June

Check out the June 2019 issue of Industrial Heating, featuring "The State of the Natural Gas Market", "Through-Process Temperature Profiling for Heat-Treat Efficiency", and much more.

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