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A Powder Coating Recipe for Success
September 18, 2024
The old saying, “Take care of your employees, and they will take care of your business,” means so much more than just paying workers a competitive wage. As All-Color Powder Coating (powered by Bluestreak™ QMS + MES), has demonstrated, providing tangible paths to opportunity and equipping employees with the proper tools and training to succeed are much more crucial to creating a thriving workplace.
East Carolina Heat Treating (Powered By Bluestreak™)
June 12, 2024
Harnessing the potential of equipment, technology, and people creates a bright future for East Carolina Heat Treating.
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Newton Heat Treating
December 11, 2023
Newton Heat Treating is making a significant impact on a global scale, particularly by serving a specialized segment of the aerospace industry.
ThermTech Expands in Wisconsin.
August 11, 2023
The new facility will allow the heat treater to continue to meet their clients’ needs as they expand their core offerings: hardening, tempering, surface heat treatment, carburizing, vacuum treatments, annealing, press quenching, etc.
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Metlab, a commercial heat treater in Wyndmoor, Pa., recently quenched a fabricated 47,000-pound gear.
May 12, 2023
The gear measured 12 feet in diameter and has a 30-inch face width.
General Magnaplate Upholds Commitment to Quality by Investing in Its Team
January 5, 2023
General Magnaplate, a family-run business, is both a pioneer and a world leader in the science of surface enhancement for metals and other substrates. Magnaplate has implemented a Bluestreak™ workflow control and quality management system to improve the transparency of jobs and traceability. Bluestreak-trained employees can identify and analyze root causes and corrective action events.
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Manufacturing Plant Adds In-House Nitriding for Power Generation Parts
October 12, 2022
A manufacturer in Poland turns to in-house heat treating capabilities rather than outsourcing its nitriding for stainless steel power generation parts.
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ThermTech Expands Heat-Treat Capabilities with New Furnaces
September 9, 2022
ThermTech partnered with Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems to significantly increase its normalizing, annealing, stress relieving, tempering, and neutral hardening capacity through the acquisition of three new furnaces.
Gear Manufacturer Orders Large-Capacity Nitriding Systems
September 6, 2022
Nitrex received an order from gear manufacturer Capi Group for two large-capacity nitriding systems. The Italian company increased its nitriding and nitrocarburizing capacity in an effort to keep up with new orders from the automotive industry.
GE Begins Testing on T901 Rotorcraft Engine for US Army
March 30, 2022
GE’s T901-GE-900 engine, leveraging Additive Manufacturing for lightweight, has entered its testing phase.
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Nitrex Heat-Treating Facility Receives Nadcap Certification
February 17, 2022
The Nitrex Heat Treating Services (HTS) facility in Franklin, Ind., received the Nadcap (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) accreditation for the following processes: heat treating for multiple alloy families, stress-relieving, carburizing, nitriding, vacuum heat treating, hardness, and metallography. Nadcap is known as the highest level of quality certification when it comes to heat treating and is particularly valuable in the aerospace sector. Nadcap has also approved the operations of the Nitrex HTS facility in Queretaro, Mexico.
It’s Official: Guinness World Records Certifies GE9X As The World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine
February 16, 2022
GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X, keeps piling on the superlatives. Already the world’s largest commercial jet engine, it is also now the most powerful one, according to Guinness World Records. Read Article.
Nitrex to be Featured on CBS News
November 18, 2021
Nitrex has been selected for the “Global Thought Leaders” series broadcast on CBS News series as an industry innovator contributing to a more sustainable future. Read article.
Can you explain the differences between the various types of stainless steel used for forging alloys and how they are heat-treated?
August 10, 2021
Find out the answer presented by Chuck Hartwig, Director of Operations for Carburizing and Batch Hardening at ThermTech of Waukesha.
Metlab Provides Heat-treated Propellers for the Hydroplane Racing Team
August 4, 2021
Read article about Metlab heat-treated propellers for the world’s fastest racing boat, capable of speeds greater than 200 mph.
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Mark Hemsath Appointed Vice-President of Nitrex Sales Heat Treating Services
May 17, 2021
Read article about Mark Hemsath, former Vice-President of SECO/VACUUM Technologies LLC.
Elementum 3D and SLM Solutions Extend Metal Additive Manufacturing Powder Choices
April 7, 2021
Read about how Elementum 3D implemented a SLM280 machine to test and define new powder development.
40 Under 40 Class of 2020, a group of rising leaders in the North American heat treat industry…
February 10, 2021
Read about these industry elites and how they have become significant contributors to the heat treat market.
Bodycote Opens Facility in Syracuse
February 3, 2021
Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of specialist thermal-processing services, announced the opening of a new facility in Syracuse, N.Y. The 60,000-square-foot facility is operational and offers a wide range of heat-treatment processes, including vacuum heat treating, atmospheric carburizing, low-pressure carburizing, carbonitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing, nitriding, and aluminum heat treating. Read article.
G-M Enterprises Secures Multimillion-Dollar Order
February 2, 2021
G-M Enterprises, a Nitrex company in Corona, California, USA, has received a multimillion-dollar order from a global manufacturer of Metal Injection Molding (MIM) products to supply two large horizontal vacuum furnaces. Read article.
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GE To Provide Flight Data Monitoring for UBER eVTOL Operators
October 16, 2020
The technology will form part of the safety management system (SMS) that Uber intends to voluntarily implement. Read article.
GE Aviation’s GE9X Engine Achieves FAA Certification
October 2, 2020
Almost 300 AM parts are reported to be in each GE9X engine. Read article.
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June 10, 2020
Deep Connections Translate to Success for JIT Powder Coating Company
An Update on our Partners, GE Additive and GE Aviation
May 19, 2020
U.S. Air Force and GE collaborate to 3D print sump cover for F110 jet engine
Cutting Edge Trends in Data: Peter Sherwin, Eurotherm by Schneider Electric
February 27, 2020
Bluestreak has teamed up with companies like Eurotherm to build an interface between existing logging systems. With Bluestreak | Blue Charts™, users can easily access electronic charting systems without having to go into another program or computer–just a single “click.”
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Developing the Concept Laser M2 Series 5 with GE Aviation – Collaboration and Co-Location
December 16, 2019
Learn about GE Additive and GE Aviation’s collaboration from Eric Gatlin, general manager – aviation additive integrated product, GE Aviation. Read article.
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