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Weber Metals unveils new 540-meganewton press for aerospace components

2018-11-16

Weber Metals Inc., a division of Otto Fuchs KG of Germany, unveiled a new, $180 million, 60,000-ton press at its 2.5-acre facility in Paramount, California, southeast of Los Angeles. It sets a record as the highest tonnage hydraulic forging press in the Americas and the largest privately funded forging press investment in the world.

BAAM gets bigger

2018-03-19

At the end of 2017, contract production company Additive Engineering Solutions took delivery of a second “big area additive manufacturing” (BAAM) machine; the same type of printer that created a single giant tooling component used to secure and stabilize a Boeing 777X composite wing skin for drilling and machining.

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Book examines use of lightweight plastics in automobiles

2014-03-14

SAE International has published a new book titled "Plastics Application Technology for Safe and Lightweight Automobiles."

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Irkut's MC-21 takes first flight, thanks to a global team

2017-08-12

Eaton manufactured engine-driven pumps for the first flying MC-21 prototype and supplied additional system sub-components including thermal bypass valves, while Pratt & Whitney supplied its PW1000G GTF engine and Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, and Elbit supplies various avionics systems.

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Green cleaning solvent

2014-04-09

Honeywell introduces Solstice performance fluid with improved cleaning power for metal and plastic parts.

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Surface coating

2014-04-09

Ultra-short pulsed laser deposition surface coating technology from Picodeon enables creation of porous or dense aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive substrates.

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Acrylic tape

2014-04-07

Adchem offers 488M Red 8-mm (0.31-in) high caliper acrylic adhesive double-sided tape.

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Book offers actionable knowledge on automotive glass engineering

2014-04-02

The new book "Glass Engineering: Design Solutions for Automotive Applications" from SAE International uses a no-nonsense, step-by-step approach to examine the variables of automotive glass engineering.

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New piston ring engineered for lower emissions targets

2017-09-19

Materion Corp.'s real world testing of new piston ring technology to help reduce downsized engines' emissions enters new phase.

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Expander plugs

2017-09-27

SFC Koenig recently developed seals for an automotive manufacturer’s new anti-lock brake and traction control systems.

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Carbon and stainless steel solutions

2014-03-14

Out of the nearly 1500 technical papers being presented this year at the SAE 2014 World Congress & Exhibition, about 200 of them will focus on materials, and from a wide range of angles. In all, there will be 38 technical sessions with an emphasis on materials.

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Inline caster

2014-02-14

Hamilton Standard custom engineered an all-stainless inline caster for a major aerospace supplier.

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Hydraulic and instrumentation tubing

2014-02-19

Sandvik 3R60, the manufacturer’s next-generation 316L grade straight length and coiled hydraulic and instrumentation tubing, will be launched to North American customers at this year’s IFPE 2014 in Las Vegas. An austenitic chromium-nickel steel, Sandvik 3R60 offers higher strength, better weldability, and improved corrosion resistance.

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Automotive venting solutions

2014-03-07

Donaldson’s Automotive Venting Solutions, which offer a variety of materials and configurations to meet the needs of automotive system suppliers, will be displayed at the SAE 2014 World Congress April 8-10 in Detroit.

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Nickel-PTFE-nanodiamond coatings

2017-08-08

Nanodiamond material specialist Carbodeon has worked with metal finishing specialist CCT Plating to develop a new electroless nickel polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and nanodiamond composite coating.

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SES to outfit Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters with Unitech Composites weapons pylons

2018-10-19

Unitech Composites, a Unitech Aerospace company in Hayden, Idaho, is providing its Lightweight Armament Support Structure (LASS) composite weapons pylons to maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) company Science and Engineering Services (SES) in Columbia, Md., for use on Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters the U.S. Army is supplying to the government of Afghanistan through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

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New Sandvik stainless tubing enables higher-pressure GDI

2014-03-14

To assist the automotive industry in its quest to develop ever more fuel-efficient technologies, Sandvik Materials Technology is launching two grades of seamless stainless tubing—Pressurfect and Pressurfect XP—to handle higher fuel pressures in gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

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Lubricants for cabin noise reduction

2015-08-28

Lubricant solutions from Klüber Lubrication reduce stick-slip and eliminate cabin noise generated by vibration and friction in automobile interiors.

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Hino tweaks materials to improve wear resistance of synchromesh gears, sleeves by 45%

2015-06-05

Automatic transmissions with a synchronized mesh mechanism are becoming more commonplace in commercial vehicles, but there is a strong need to increase the wear resistance of sleeves and dog gears, which are subject to impact loads at high surface pressures. Hino Motors engineers achieved a 45% reduction in wear in actual parts with B, Ti-Nb added to steel.

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Acoustic engine layer

2015-08-26

Basotect TG melamine foam from BASF is used for the acoustic layer in Volkswagen EA888 engine covers.