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Heat Treating Race Car Parts with Quick Turnaround for Race Event

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BOTW-50w  Source:  MetLabHeattreat.com

Metlab has worked with a number of NASCAR and Indy Racing Car Teams and also companies that restore antique cars, sports and muscle cars and has a history of heat treating race car parts that must endure severe conditions. Big B Manufacturing is a specialty machine shop located in Klingerstown, PA which specializes in design and engineering as well as machining of small and large components. They also make and race off road cars. Big B brought a project to Metlab that required the heat treating of four (4) link arms.  The arms are fabricated from 4130 steel and TIG welded with 4130 filler. The suspension parts are for Big B Manufacturing’s racing team.

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Heat Treat TV: Aluminum Association Releases New Videos

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The aluminum association launched a new series of informative videos, hosted by former NASA astronaut Dan Tani that explain how aluminum helps automakers develop the safest, greenest, and most sustainable vehicles ever.

Click below to view each short video.

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Checking Up on Your Heat Treater

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BOTW-50w  Source:  GearTechnology.com

Over the years, I’ve toured many a gear manufacturing facility where the heat treat department stole the
show. Maybe it’s the massively deep pit furnaces, the Star Trek-esque control rooms and the large overhead cranes moving components around the facility. Perhaps it’s simply all the pyrotechnics
remind me of a really great rock concert. Regardless, heat treating is such a critical step in the gear manufacturing process it’s no surprise several manufacturers have brought it in-house.

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Powder Metal Gear Technology: A Review of the State of the Art

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BOTW-50w  Source:  Power Transmission Engineering

“During the past 10 years, the PM industry has put a lot of focus on how to make powder metal gears for automotive transmissions a reality. To reach this goal, several hurdles had to be overcome, such as fatigue data generation on gears, verification of calculation methods, production technology, materials development, heat treatment recipes, design development, and cost studies. All of these advancements will be discussed, and a number of vehicles with powder metal gears in their transmissions will be presented. How the transmissions have been redesigned in order to achieve the required stress levels while minimizing weight and inertia, thus increasing efficiency, will also be discussed.”

Read More:  Powder Metal Gear Technology:  A Review of the State of the Art by Anders Flodin

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Bodycote Opens New Georgia Heat Treatment Plant

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Bodycote, the world’s largest thermal processing services provider, is pleased to announce that its new heat treatment plant in Covington, GA is now open.

The brand new 60,0002ft facility, established to replace the existing Conyers plant, will primarily serve automotive and general industrial customers, offering all of the processes and capabilities which had been offered at the Conyers location as well as the addition of ferritic nitrocarburizing.

At more than double the size of the plant it replaces, the new Covington facility immediately increases the capacity available to serve the Georgia and Florida marketplaces with a wide range of heat treatment processes.

This investment is part of Bodycote’s further expansion in the Southeast USA. Bodycote is committed to offering world-class heat treating services and is investing in improvements as part of an ongoing strategy to provide the best possible capabilities, mix and geographical network to better serve customers.

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New Steel Alloy is Both Strong and Ductile

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BOTW-50w  Source:  Materials Today

“For the steel industry, there may now be a way out of a dilemma that has existed ever since people first began processing metal. In a paper in Nature, scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Germany, report a new type of metallic material that is both extremely strong and highly ductile. Up to now, one of these material properties could only be improved at the expense of the other, but this new advance could alter that trade-off, leading to the creation of lighter metallic components with thinner walls.”

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Reduced Heat Treatment Requirements for Components Made with Aluminum-Cerium Alloys

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BOTW-50w  Source:  Engineering 360

“The key to the alloys’ high-temperature performance is a specific aluminum-cerium compound, or intermetallic, that forms inside the alloys as they are melted and cast. This intermetallic melts only at temperatures above 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

That heat tolerance makes aluminum-cerium alloys very attractive for use in internal combustion engines, Rios says. Tests have shown them to be stable at 300 degrees Celsius, a temperature that would cause traditional alloys to begin disintegrating. In addition, the stability of this intermetallic sometimes eliminates the need for heat treatments typically required for aluminum alloys.

Read More:  Aluminum-Cerium Alloys Could Boost Engine Efficiency and Rare Earth Production

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Flex-N-Gate to Build $95M Plant in Detroit to Supply Ford

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BOTW-50w  Source:  Today’s Motor Vehicles

“Flex-N-Gate owner Shahid Khan says his company will invest $95 million in construction and capital costs for a Detroit-area facility that will supply parts to Ford Motor Co. Potential additional investment in the project could push the project to at least $100 million. Khan says the project will create at least 400 and up to 650 new jobs in Detroit over the next three years; at full capacity, up to 750 total jobs could be added.”

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Automotive Supplier in Alabama Purchases Heat Treatment System from Can -Eng Furnaces

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CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited has been contracted by a large Canadian-based Tier 1 Automotive Supplier located in Alabama to design, manufacture and commission an automated T-7 Heat Treatment System for the processing of high integrity aluminum automotive structural castings. CAN-ENG is a global expert in the design of thermal processing solutions for high pressure die castings (HPDC) and aluminum automotive structural components.  CAN-ENG’s technology was chosen for this new light-weighting project because it offers inherent part handling features that reduce floor space requirements and energy consumption. The technology also provides predictable mechanical properties and maintains the dimensional stability of the casting.

The T-7 cell includes Robotic Handling, a Solution and Age Furnace with CAN-ENG’s Precision Air Quench (PAQ ™) technology, and controls integrated into a Level II SCADA system.  CAN-ENG’s PAQ™ system offers a unique combination of recirculating air chambers, distribution nozzles, dampers and directional ductwork.  Analysis of CFD modelling by CAN-ENG’s R and D Center ensures that the Precision Air Quench System (PAQ™) delivers controlled quench media to the casting, leading to repeatable and uniform mechanical properties and accurate dimensional results.  CAN-ENG’s T-7 heat treatment system is integrated with up and down stream processing operations, reducing W.I.P inventories.  It is scheduled to be commissioned in the summer of 2016 with a second phase to follow in 2017.

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