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Coremaking is one of the key process used in foundries. It gives the industry an advantage that no other metalworking industry has--the ability to form external and internal contours, shapes, [...]

Stainless steel alloys, monolithic thermoplastics, fiber-reinforced plastics, and advanced ceramics can solve problems in a variety of chemical process applications. Russell D. Kane Cortest Laboratories The severe service environments of [...]

Researchers from the People's Republic of China describe a process for casting thin-walled, complicated aluminum alloy designs. A vacuum differential pressure casting (VDPC) process unit was used to study the [...]

In the wide world of metalcasting R&D even developing countries are making strides toward overcoming some of the technological challenges foundries face. Summaries of three university-based studies report on such [...]

Cold rolling of carbon steel with tandem mills has been on the programs of supplier seminars on at least two occasions during 2000. Danieli & C. hosted a technology conference [...]

The Oregon Dept. of Transportation, using highly alloyed stainless steel reinforcing bar in its concrete structures, is building a bridge in North Bend, OR, that is expected to provide maintenance-free [...]

The first completely Japanese owned steel mill in the U.S. is Austeel, in Auburn, N.Y., constructed in 1976. Austeel is a mini-mill using electric furnaces to melt scrap steel and turn out finished products primarily for construction industry. Austeel depends entirely on trucks for transporting scrap to the mill and customer delivery. Barr Transportation Corp., the contract fleet Austeel uses, consists of 23 Mack RL West Coast tractors, two Cruise-Liner sleepers, and 2 F model sleepers. Barr uses Maxidyne engines.

The California Institute of Technology has developed a new alloy call 'liquid-metal' that's said to be twice as strong as titanium or steel, nonoxidizing, easily cast, and machinable to razor [...]

A manufacturer of steel cylinders for fire suppression systems wanted to change how the cylinders were fabricated. Instead of using heavy wall pipe cut to length with end caps welded [...]

Teledyne Fluid Systems developed a nitrogen gas spring that is less-complex, smaller and cheaper than mechanical springs or hydraulic system. This device operates under the same principle as other mechanisms which use a bigger body diameter and a tight-tolerance machining to boost spring force. Compared with typical gas springs that exert forces ranging from two to 2,000 lbs only, the new gas springs can exert forces up to 20,000 lbs., Counterbalance springs can be found in a myriad of applications, including lifting door hatches and lowering drive-on ramps. And either mechanical coil springs or hydraulic systems can easily do the [...]

To some, this may read like an advertisement. It's not. The fact of the matter is that while Greer Steel Co., a Dover, Ohio, processor of cold-rolled steel, and Chimitt […]

'The first of many'? It was red-carpet treatment all the way for some 200 customers and other guests attending a dedication of a new kind of steel facility in Jackson, [...]