AMERICAN scientists have found ways to make metal alloys which are more resistant to corrosion.
24/10/2008
RESEARCHERS from the University of Michigan have found why metal alloys can fail unexpectedly in a range of applications.
25/09/2008
THE CAST Cooperative Research Centre (CAST CRC) has discovered molten metals can behave like wet sand when they enter a zone between solid and liquid states.
21/05/2008
THE 2009 Australasian Corrosion Association (ACA) conference on corrosion and prevention will be held in Coffs Harbour from 15 to 18 November 2009.
30/10/2009
KOLENE says it has received more than US$1.5m ($1.86m) in equipment orders from aerospace companies seeking to process metal aircraft parts.
10/09/2008
DEMAND for obscure and rare metals such as rhenium, chromium, cobalt and titanium is rising as airlines seek to optimise fuel use in the face of soaring oil prices.
18/06/2008
SPECIALISED Welding Australia (SWA) will merge with a Singaporean engineering firm to consolidate services for the global oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
17/06/2008
CS UNITEC has launched a portable pneumatic hacksaw which can cut pipes, tanks, structural steel and other metal materials.
08/09/2008
JAPANESE researchers have developed a new type of steel which is said to be able to withstand the cold.
19/06/2008
METALS research body CAST Cooperative Research Centre (CAST CRC) has appointed Dr. George Collins as its Chief Executive Officer.
11/07/2008
AN AMERICAN laboratory has developed a processing technique which reduces the energy and cost needed to make titanium parts, possibly opening the way for the metal to be used in parts like brake rotors, artificial joint replacements and vehicular armour.
07/07/2008
CSIRO’s Light Metals Flagship has displayed its latest technologies which promise to reduce the cost of making lightweight alloy car components.
08/08/2008
SPECIALISED Gaskets is using water jet cutting to manufacture up to 1000 gaskets a day, and claims the technology offers many advantages.
26/05/2008
RESEARCHERS from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology say aluminium structures could be used for a wide range of peacetime and wartime impact protection.
19/08/2008
ACCORDING to Kennametal, its Beyond tooling was used by Canada-based Mecon Industries for an ‘impossible’ job.
31/03/2009
Swinburne Magazine’s Rebecca Thyer has written about how CAST CRC has worked to reduce titanium alloy production and machining costs in the F-35 fighter manufacturing operations.
16/06/2009
JIM Cove of Mastercut Technologies says photochemical milling can help lower the costs of producing thin metal parts when laser cutting becomes prohibitive.
25/06/2009
ROFIN has released a case study on their series of lasers with up to 850W of power, said to produce consistent processing results, faster processing speeds and more cost-efficient operations than sandblasting and chemical etching.
26/08/2008
APPLICATION Engineer at the Lincoln Electric Company Ken Lee has written about the advantages and uses of flux-cored wire in welding applications.
29/05/2008