David Pye's series on surface treatments continues.

This is the second part of David Pye's series on surface treatments.

Most heat treaters have been told by in-house customers, as well as external customers, that we need to have the component “heat treated without distortion.” That is an impossibility.

This blog will discuss a brief comparison between low- to high-temperature-deposition methods of surface-modification treatments in relation to thermal-diffusion treatments.

David Pye's series on the heat treatment of exotic metals continues.

Since those early days of the birth of what became known as the “jet age,” titanium alloys have found a strong demand by manufacturers.

In terms of current industrial requirements, the most interesting subject to the writer is the treating for bio-implant items and “repairs” to components that are inserted into the human body.

It’s hard to believe how much has changed in the past year. When I wrote my annual April column in early March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t yet a reality in the United States.

France’s ECM Group launched ECM Lab Solutions, a division dedicated to helping laboratories develop innovative products and processes by offering advanced furnace technologies under one ECM Group brand. ECM Lab Solutions gathers all products from the ECM Group that are designed for research and development in four main fields: metallurgy and heat treatment, crystal growth, semiconductor and renewable energies.

With January being our month to focus on emerging technologies, here are a few of them that affect us as metallurgists and heat treaters.