In late-August 2008, Pacific Cast Technologies (PCT), an investment casting
foundry located in Albany, Ore., purchased an Air Blast room for their facility.
PCT (acquired by Ladish in 2000) offers precision shell cast technology, in
particular, for titanium investment castings. The company has the technology,
equipment and expertise to cast titanium parts in some of the largest sizes.
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) said today that it is actively supporting automakers as they work to produce more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles that can meet the Department of Transpor...
NLMK has begun the assembly
of BF-7 steel structures at its main site in Lipetsk. The new production facility,
with capacity of 3.4 million tonnes of hot pig iron per year, is the first to
be constructed in Russia for 20 years.
Mill outages continue in the US, with operating levels now under 50 percent. There is still negative pressure on transaction prices as sales fail to recover. All the major steel consuming sectors are affected by the fina...
At its extraordinary meeting today the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp
AG resolved to realign the Group. It decided to reorganize the five segments
Steel, Stainless, Technologies, Elevator and Services into two divisions. The
new Materials division will combine the activities of the current Steel, Stainless
and Services segments.
Reflecting the technical breadth and quality of the upcoming AeroMat Conference
and Exposition in Dayton, June 7-11, ASM International is offering a free
white paper on the "Forming of Titanium and Titanium Alloys", written
by a leading expert in the field.
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies received orders to inspect the existing hot-blast stoves at four production sites of U.S. steel producers and to propose repair and upgrading measures. The objective was to increase the ho...
Scientists at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method
for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles "particles measuring billionths of a meter" which renders the metal resistant
to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.
NLMK has begun the reconstruction of the gas exhaust ducts of its BOFs with a secondary emissions collection and cleaning system. This measure, applied to the Company’s three BOFs, will increase steel production by...
As part of a two-stage modernization project completed at the end of 2008, Siemens VAI Metals Technologies increased the annual production capacity of Italian steel producer Ferriera Valsabbia to 750,000 metric tons of r...
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