Items Tagged with 'titanium '

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced that BHE Renewables, a Berkshire Hathaway Energy business, entered into an agreement with the State of West Virginia to purchase more than 2,000 acres of land in Ravenswood, W.V., to be developed as a first-of-its-kind renewable-energy microgrid-powered industrial site. Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC), a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. business, will be the first company to locate on the site and will develop a titanium melting facility that will use 100% renewable energy to manufacture titanium products for the aerospace industry.

Welcome to the nonferrous issue. In February, our goal is to ferret out content focused on anything but steel.

Quintus Technologies developed a new process, high-pressure warm forming (HPWF), that combines high pressure with a moderately elevated temperature for more rapid, cost-effective and precise forming of titanium parts. HPWF paves the way for more widespread adoption of Ti-6Al-4V, the grade of titanium used in many manufacturing sectors for its high strength, light weight, formability and high corrosion resistance. 

Solar Manufacturing shipped a large, horizontal, front-loading vacuum furnace to a titanium manufacturer and fabricator located in the Midwest. The furnace includes a molybdenum-shielded hot zone and heating elements, with a work zone size of 54 inches wide x 54 inches high x 144 inches deep and a weight capacity of 7,500 pounds. It is specifically designed for processing titanium alloys for the aerospace and medical industries, and it is fully compliant to aerospace specification AMS 2750E. 

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

Dutch designer and technologist Rein van der Mast uses 3D printing to make titanium fountain pens and its fully functional nib.

Our February issue focus is nonferrous, and much of our content this month covers nonferrous materials.

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd. has been contracted by Weber Metals Inc. to design, manufacture and commission a rotary furnace system.