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MIM booklet from EPMA
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booklet from EPMA
THE European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has produced a 16-page booklet on metal injection moulding (MIM) to help promote the technology. The booklet aims to make design engineers more aware of the capabilities of MIM. The brochure gives a detailed overview of all the basic aspects of MIM and gives
guidelines on the shape capabilities, mechanical properties and tolerances that can be achieved with the process. It also includes 14 case studies of current MIM applications. Copies of the booklet are available free from the EPMA European Powder Metallurgy Association; tel: +441743-248899; fm: + 44-l 743362968.
Conference examines heat resistant materials MATERIALS used in applications having a service temperature over 540°C (1000°F) are the subject of the ‘2nd International Conference on HeatResistant Materials’. The conference, to be held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA, being is sponsored by the Heat-Resistant Materials Committee of ASM International’s Specialty Materials Ditision and co-sponsored by NACE International. The conference will focus
on the development, performance and end use of heat resistant materials. More than 30% of the nearly 100 papers are being presented by speakers from outside the USA Among the materials to be discussed are structural iron, nickel-base alloys, intermetallies, ceramics, refractory alloys and coatings. ASM International; tel: + 1-216-338-5151; fm: + 1-216-338-4634.
Teledyne embroiled in takeover bid US industrial conglomerate Teledyne Inc, parent company of powder maker Teledyne Advanced Materials, is fighting a hostile $1.2 billion takeover bid. The takeover bid, from steel maker WHX Corp of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA, has prompted Teledyne to seek rival bidders. The Wall Street Journal Europe reports that Teledyne has begun to “solicit offers for the possible sale” of the company and has retained Goldman, Sachs & Co as its investment banker. Teledyne Inc had total sales of $2391.2 million in 1994 and an operating income of $99.7 million. It operates in four main business segments - aviation and electronics, specialty metals, industrial and consumer. Teledyne Advanced Materials, which manufactures tungsten, tungsten
carbide and molybdenum powders, contributed to the specialty metals group earnings of $658.3 million in 1994. Analysts say WHX’s interest in Teledyne is largely a product of the company’s overfunded pension plan which it could use to offset some of the cost of a planned expansion in one of its steel making units. Teledyne has undergone considerable restructuring during the past two years in the wake of US Defence budget cuts. It has disposed of more than 25 companies and has combined the remaining 65 into 18. It has also paid out more than $160 million to settle a number of long running court cases related to its defence work. Teledyne Inc; tel: + l-310277.3311; fa: + 1-310-5514369.
Randall German named outstanding researcher POWDER metallurgy (PM) researcher Professor Randall M. German has been awarded the ‘1995 Penn State Engineering Society Research Award’. Dr German is the Brush Chair Professor in Materials with the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. He has been director of the university’s PM laboratory since his arrival in 1991.
Dr German’s publication list includes 400 articles covering PM, ceramics and physical metallurgy. He has authored four books and his fifth, Sintering Theory and Practice, is in press. His research and teaching focus is in particulate materials processing. Prof. Randall Gemzan, Penn State University; tel: + l-81 4-863-8025; fm: + 1-814-863-8211.
Hayes supplies four chamber furnace FURNACE manufacturer C.I. Hayes Inc of Cranston, Rhode Island, USA, has recently delivered a multi-million dollar four chamber continuous vacuum carburizing furnace to a major automotive supplier. Parts are preheated in the first two chamber, carburized in the third chamber and oil quenched in the fourth chamber. Carburizing is accomplished by Hayes’ patented Pulse-Pump system. The company says this tecni4
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que, coupled with a unique burnout capability, virtually eliminates down time caused by the carburlzing process. Material handling is automated and the furnace is controlled via a state-of-theart computer system. Indeed, Hayes reports it has delivered numerous Graphical Computer Interfaces (GCI) for state-of-the art furnaces. C.I. Hayes Inc; tel: + l401-467-5200; fm: + l-401. 467-2108.
The four chamber continuous
vacuum carburizing furnace from Hayes of Cranston, Rhode Island.
booklet from EPMA
THE European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has produced a 16-page booklet on metal injection moulding (MIM) to help promote the technology. The booklet aims to make design engineers more aware of the capabilities of MIM. The brochure gives a detailed overview of all the basic aspects of MIM and gives
guidelines on the shape capabilities, mechanical properties and tolerances that can be achieved with the process. It also includes 14 case studies of current MIM applications. Copies of the booklet are available free from the EPMA European Powder Metallurgy Association; tel: +441743-248899; fm: + 44-l 743362968.
Conference examines heat resistant materials MATERIALS used in applications having a service temperature over 540°C (1000°F) are the subject of the ‘2nd International Conference on HeatResistant Materials’. The conference, to be held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA, being is sponsored by the Heat-Resistant Materials Committee of ASM International’s Specialty Materials Ditision and co-sponsored by NACE International. The conference will focus
on the development, performance and end use of heat resistant materials. More than 30% of the nearly 100 papers are being presented by speakers from outside the USA Among the materials to be discussed are structural iron, nickel-base alloys, intermetallies, ceramics, refractory alloys and coatings. ASM International; tel: + 1-216-338-5151; fm: + 1-216-338-4634.
Teledyne embroiled in takeover bid US industrial conglomerate Teledyne Inc, parent company of powder maker Teledyne Advanced Materials, is fighting a hostile $1.2 billion takeover bid. The takeover bid, from steel maker WHX Corp of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA, has prompted Teledyne to seek rival bidders. The Wall Street Journal Europe reports that Teledyne has begun to “solicit offers for the possible sale” of the company and has retained Goldman, Sachs & Co as its investment banker. Teledyne Inc had total sales of $2391.2 million in 1994 and an operating income of $99.7 million. It operates in four main business segments - aviation and electronics, specialty metals, industrial and consumer. Teledyne Advanced Materials, which manufactures tungsten, tungsten
carbide and molybdenum powders, contributed to the specialty metals group earnings of $658.3 million in 1994. Analysts say WHX’s interest in Teledyne is largely a product of the company’s overfunded pension plan which it could use to offset some of the cost of a planned expansion in one of its steel making units. Teledyne has undergone considerable restructuring during the past two years in the wake of US Defence budget cuts. It has disposed of more than 25 companies and has combined the remaining 65 into 18. It has also paid out more than $160 million to settle a number of long running court cases related to its defence work. Teledyne Inc; tel: + l-310277.3311; fa: + 1-310-5514369.
Randall German named outstanding researcher POWDER metallurgy (PM) researcher Professor Randall M. German has been awarded the ‘1995 Penn State Engineering Society Research Award’. Dr German is the Brush Chair Professor in Materials with the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. He has been director of the university’s PM laboratory since his arrival in 1991.
Dr German’s publication list includes 400 articles covering PM, ceramics and physical metallurgy. He has authored four books and his fifth, Sintering Theory and Practice, is in press. His research and teaching focus is in particulate materials processing. Prof. Randall Gemzan, Penn State University; tel: + l-81 4-863-8025; fm: + 1-814-863-8211.
Hayes supplies four chamber furnace FURNACE manufacturer C.I. Hayes Inc of Cranston, Rhode Island, USA, has recently delivered a multi-million dollar four chamber continuous vacuum carburizing furnace to a major automotive supplier. Parts are preheated in the first two chamber, carburized in the third chamber and oil quenched in the fourth chamber. Carburizing is accomplished by Hayes’ patented Pulse-Pump system. The company says this tecni4
MPR May 1995
que, coupled with a unique burnout capability, virtually eliminates down time caused by the carburlzing process. Material handling is automated and the furnace is controlled via a state-of-theart computer system. Indeed, Hayes reports it has delivered numerous Graphical Computer Interfaces (GCI) for state-of-the art furnaces. C.I. Hayes Inc; tel: + l401-467-5200; fm: + l-401. 467-2108.
The four chamber continuous
vacuum carburizing furnace from Hayes of Cranston, Rhode Island.