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

This is the sixth and final part of David Pye's series on the heat treatment of small arms, guns and rifle barrels. Part 5 can be found here.

This is part 4 of David Pye's series on the heat treatment of small arms, guns and rifle barrels. Part 3 can be found here.

This is part 3 of David Pye's series on the heat treatment of small arms, guns and rifle barrels. Part 2 can be found here.

This is part 2 of David Pye's series on the heat treatment of small arms, guns and rifle barrels.

Many stakeholders involved in heat treating try to find answers as to why their products are discharged 100-300°F below the furnace setpoint temperature. We shall only consider continuous annealing furnaces used in metal heating for the purposes of this article.

This is the first of several blogs that will describe some of the heat-treatment practices conducted on, handguns, rifle barrels, sniper barrels and artillery (155-mm howitzer).

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

Tenova Goodfellow Inc., (TGI) a Canadian subsidiary of Tenova, a Techint Group company specialized in innovative solutions for the metals and mining industries, is joining a collaborative project titled “Digital Transformation of Secondary Metallurgy Facility at ArcelorMittal Dofasco.” The project is focused on ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s secondary metallurgy facility, which includes a ladle furnace, a degassing tank, their auxiliaries and transfer cars. The goal is to demonstrate how digitalization technologies can improve production by minimizing manual intervention, reducing process variation and improving final steel properties.

July is always our annual Buyers Guide issue. This year is no different. 2020, however, marks a somewhat significant milestone – albeit a personal one.