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Oil-and-Gas Parts Manufacturer Orders Box Furnaces

Lindberg/MPH shipped three natural-gas-fired box furnaces to a parts manufacturer for the oil-and-gas industry. The furnaces will be used...

Vacuum, Atmosphere Furnaces shipped to Range of Companies

Ipsen recently shipped 10 furnaces to companies in California, Georgia, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin, as well as to one location in Asi...

Linn High Therm, SAFED Enter into Agreement

Germany’s Linn High Therm GmbH and Switzerland’s SAFED Suisse SA, a company of the Aichelin Group, entered into a cooperation...

Wire and Tube 2018 Review

More than 71,500 trade visitors (compared to 69,500 in 2016) from 134 countries came to Düsseldorf for Wire 2018 (the International ...

Auto-Parts Manufacturer Orders Brazing Line

SECO/WARWICK received an order for a continuous controlled-atmosphere brazing line from RAAL S.C., a manufacturer of automotive parts. Th...

Hitachi Metals Orders EBAM System

Sciaky Inc. manufactured and delivered an electron-beam additive-manufacturing (EBAM) system to the Global Research & Innovative Tech...

Aerospace Manufacturer Orders Rotary-Hearth Furnace

Ipsen will deliver a rotary-hearth furnace to one of the largest companies in the aerospace and defense industry. The company will use th...

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Advanced Carburizing Technology: An Industrial Perspective

Aaron Flesher Tyler Logan

Daniel H. Herring

To meet both customer product performance requirements and service-life expectations, parts require a hard, wear-resistant surface; a soft, ductile core; and the ability to withstand not only the high Hertzian …

Process Control & Instrumentation

Endothermic Generators for Management

Jeff McLaughlin

With a wide processing capability, endothermic gas is a common industrial process gas. With readily available ingredients, endo is a simple, economical gas to generate. …

Melting/Forming/Joining

Playing with Fire: Blacksmithing a Hot Topic

Almost weekly, we run across another interesting blacksmithing story about someone who seems an unlikely blacksmith or who is making wonderful creations from lumps of metal or common items. …

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Reader-Favorite Ceramics, Refractories and Insulation Articles

Reed Miller

Based on page views on our website, we are sharing the eight ceramics and refractories/insulation articles most loved by readers. …

Heat Treating

Innovative Heat Treatment for Weight Reduction of Heavy Components

James Lowrie Gracious Ngaile

This article focuses on another method to provide lightweight components, namely innovative heat-treatment schemes. …

Heat & Corrosion Resistant Materials

Corrosion-Resistant Plastic Cooling Towers Cut Costs

John Flaherty

For operations using extreme heat, engineered plastic cooling towers provide cooling and can outlast traditional alternatives. …

Process Control & Instrumentation

Process Thermal Imaging in the Modern Hot-Rolling Mill

Richard Gagg

Single-point radiation thermometers, also referred to as infrared pyrometers, have been widely used in steel hot-rolling mills for more than 60 years. They offer many advantages compared to contact sensors …

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Automotive Additive Manufacturing

Three different stories highlight the advance of AM in automotive. The first is a brake caliper manufactured from titanium (Ti) by Bugatti. The stronger Ti part replaces aluminum but is 40% lighter. Meanwhile, BMW Group is investing over $12 million in an Additive Manufacturing Campus.

Ford F-150 Goes Diesel

A diesel version of the Ford's best-selling F-150 truck is on sale in the U.S. this spring. The engine’s crank receives different machining and heat treatment to increase its strength, and the bearing material alloy is altered to improve durability. In addition to other design changes, the result is a construction that lightened the load by 700 pounds.

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Patent Infringement Insurance

By Thomas Joseph

Many companies worry about infringing patents when they introduce new products due to the costs associated with patent litigation. Even a small patent case can cost a company over a million dollars in attorney’s fees if the parties engage in significant discovery.

Facts about the Elements: Tantalum

By Daniel H. Herring

Facts about the Elements: Cerium

By Daniel H. Herring

Hydrogen Truck Plant in Arizona

Earlier this year, Nikola Motor Company, a hydrogen-electric truck company, announced that it would be building a $1 billion truck manufacturing plant in Arizona. Construction will begin in 2019, and production will be underway by 2021. The plant is estimated to create 2,000 jobs and claims to already have 8,000 preorders for its semi trucks.

Automotive Steel vs. Aluminum

Steel seems to be making some headway in this ongoing battle. To keep aluminum from making further inroads, ArcelorMittal spends most of its $134 million annual product-development budget on auto research. The company says it can make steel car frames and panels that are 21% lighter than in 2010.

Ford’s Solo Aluminum Foray

Years back, many thought RAM and GM would follow Ford’s lead with aluminum in their pickups. It hasn’t happened and appears that it is not going to happen, which leaves Ford on an “aluminum island.” In light of the next story, it appears Ford will remain alone or perhaps even shift back to steel. Time will tell.

Which Material Makes Sense: Steel or Aluminum?

An interesting article in engineering.com explains why a movement away from aluminum makes sense. One of the facts is that because steel is so much stronger than aluminum, it can be thinner. The thicker aluminum used to replace it is not that much lighter, and the extra thickness is often a design problem.

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2018 April

Check out the April 2018 issue of Industrial Heating, which features our cover story on the ancient art of blacksmithing, a compilation of reader-favorite articles on ceramics, refractories and insulation, and much more.

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