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ATI Expands Aerospace Agreement with Titanium Components

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ATI Inc. and The Boeing Company have expanded their agreement for high-performance titanium materials for aerospace. ATI will supply high-performance titanium materials, including long products — such as ingots, billets, rectangles, and bars — and flat-rolled products, including plate, sheet, and coil.

Kimberly Fields
President & CEO
ATI Inc.

ATI‘s extension and expansion of its long-term titanium products agreement will support Boeing‘s narrowbody and widebody airplane operations.

“We’re proud to expand our decades-long partnership with Boeing,” said Kimberly Fields, president and CEO of ATI. “This agreement reaffirms ATI’s leadership in titanium at a time of accelerating aerospace production and growing demand for differentiated materials. It also deepens our position in high-strength titanium alloys and sheet products…It includes titanium alloy sheet from our new Pageland, South Carolina, facility and draws on the strengths of both our Specialty Materials and Specialty Rolled Products businesses.”

Specialty Rolled Products
Source: ATI Inc

ATI is a producer of high-performance materials and solutions for the aerospace and defense markets, and critical applications in electronics, medical and specialty energy, and a Nadcap certified heat treater. They provide alloys in a full range of mill products, forgings, titanium castings, and machined components, designed for the high performance requirements such as for aerospace and defense, oil and gas/chemical process industry, electrical energy, and medical.

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10 Quick Heat Treat News Items to Keep You Current

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10 Quick Heat Treat News Items to Keep You Current

Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry.

Personnel and Company Chatter

  • Julien Noel has been named Vice President / General Manager of the Buehler worldwide division. ITW Test and Measurement Group President, Yahya Gharagozlou, made the announcement. Buehler is an ITW Company which manufactures scientific equipment and consumables for materials analysis.
  • A fourth vacuum aluminum brazing (VAB) furnace has been purchased by California Brazing, a Newark, California, heat treating company in order to expand the capability to service the aerospace sector.
  • Solar Atmospheres recently awarded the title of CEO Emeritus to Roger A. Jones, FASM. The honorary title was conferred by the company and announces his semi-retirement as Solar Atmospheres’ CEO, the culmination of 45 years of leadership and service to the vacuum heat treating industry.
  • A refractories supplier’s recently established partnership will result in the full-service distribution of the company’s products and services throughout several European countries. The Plibrico Company and Pli Group Europe GmbH, a highly experienced refractory distributor contractor based in Vienna, Austria, have entered into a new value-added distribution partnership will cover Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
  • The world’s largest aerospace company, the Boeing Company recently acquired Embraer SA, the commercial aircraft arm of a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, in a new $4.75 billion joint venture.

Equipment Chatter

  • Seven Gruenberg Glassware drying ovens were recently shipped to a university in the U.S. Midwest by Thermal Product Solutions, a manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment based in New Columbia, Pennsylvania.
  • A furnace equipment company based in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently designed and manufactured a front-loading forge furnace for a leading North American forging company. The furnace built by Onex, Inc., is one of the largest of its kind in North America with workspace dimensions measuring 26ft (W) x 20ft (D) x 14ft (H).
  • A heat treating services provider in the U.S. Northwest recently purchased a Meg-HIP hot isostatic press for heat treating and metal processing. Västerås, Sweden-based, Quintus Technologies installed the system at Stack Metallurgical Group in Albany, Oregon.

Kudos Chatter

  • Thermal-Vac Technology, Inc. has been awarded a 2018 Top Workplaces honor by The Orange County Register. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.
  • AK Steel recently announced that it has accepted an award of up to $1.2 million from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office program to investigate novel low-density steels in the laboratory, which could ultimately be used in automotive structural applications. The three-year project will be conducted in collaboration with DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Materials Science and Technology Division, and the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.  The objective of the project is to conduct alloy design, laboratory validation, and testing of low-density steels that are alternatives to currently available advanced high strength steels and other lightweight metals.

Heat Treat Today is pleased to join in the announcements of growth and achievement throughout the industry by highlighting them here on our News Chatter page. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments especially in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors to the editor at editor@heattreattoday.com.

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Aerostructures Company Strengthens Boeing Partnership, Expands Manufacturing Facility

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The world’s largest first-tier aerostructures manufacturer recently announced that the company plans to expand operations at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, site by investing more than $80 million in capital projects to support fuselage manufacturing and assembly work.

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas, will be hiring about 250 employees as part of this expansion. The new Tulsa project will support increases in 737 production rates by freeing up required space in Spirit’s Wichita factory site.  The work expansion in Tulsa is part of a larger effort to maximize operational efficiencies across Spirit’s sites. As the production rates increase, the Wichita site will continue to hire additional workers to meet the increasing demand.

Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile

The first phase of the Tulsa work expansion will begin with infrastructure set-up and employee training beginning in 2019. Full rate production is expected to be complete by the end of 2021.  Additional investment in equipment, tooling and facilities upgrades will take place through 2022.

“This expansion would not have been possible without the strong collaboration among Spirit, the UAW, and Oklahoma state and local officials,” said Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile. “The Spirit team in Tulsa has made great strides in improving the site’s efficiency and demonstrating the capability to bring in additional work. The Tulsa site has a critical role in helping Spirit meet rising airplane production rates and pursue growth opportunities.”

In addition, Spirit announced that it executed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with The Boeing Company, extending its partnership with the aerospace giant and leading manufacturer of airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. Spirit builds several important pieces of Boeing aircraft, including the fuselage of the 737, portions of the 787 fuselage, and the cockpit section of the fuselage of nearly all of its airliners.

“This agreement further strengthens the long-standing partnership between Boeing and Spirit as it removes uncertainty well into the next decade. The agreement establishes pricing and capital investment for a range of potential production rate increases on the 737 program. With the new agreement, we expect price to exceed cost eventually on the 787 program. We are excited to continue to build on our relationship and look forward to future opportunities with our largest customer,” said Gentile. “With this agreement, we maintain our target of 7 to 9 percent conversion of revenue to free cash flow.”

 

Photo caption: Spirit AeroSystems president and CEO Tom Gentile announces Tulsa expansion (Twitter).

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Aerospace Giant Signs Multi-Year Contract for Aluminum Solutions

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Ingrid Joerg, President of Constellium’s Aerospace and Transportation

A European provider of aluminum products and solutions announced recently that it has signed a multi-year agreement with The Boeing Company to support its leading commercial airplane programs. With this agreement, Constellium, based in The Netherlands, will supply Boeing with a broad range of advanced aluminum-rolled products coming mostly from its plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia.

“This new contract reflects the strong relationship established over the years with Boeing,” said Ingrid Joerg, President of Constellium’s Aerospace and Transportation business unit. “We look forward to continuing to support Boeing in its commercial airplane programs.”

 

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