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PM people GLOBAL structural parts maker GKN Sinter Metals has made a number of recent appointments. R. Lance Harris has become one of the company’s seven directors of operations. He will be responsible for developing and implementing a worldwide manufacturing productivity improvement programme. Harris has seven years powder metallurgy (PM) experience and spent a further six years in various engineering and supervisory capacities with General Motors of Canada Ltd. L. Kent Byrd Jr has been appointed as a sales engineer based at the company’s Salem, IN, USA, facility. Byrd joins the company from Brico Metals (Dayton, OH), where he was manager, new products/processing. He will be responsible for commercial issues relating to automotive and non-automotive sales emanating from the plant. John Eric Forsythe has joined the company’s world headquarters (Auburn Hills, MI, USA) as an account manager for clients in commercial and agricultural vehicles. He joins GKN Sinter Metals from The Behr Group (Canton, SD, USA), a leading manufacturer of heat exchange systems and related components. At leading cutting tool manufacturer Kennametal
Inc (La Trobe, PA, USA), the company’s CEO and president, Robert McGeehan, will retire from 1 July. Fred Belcher has retired as managing director of HiiganPs (Great Britain) Ltd after 28 years with the company. His successor is Dr Keven Harlow, formerly commercial director at London & Scandinavian Metallurgical co. Michael Williams has resigned from his post as managing director of the components division of UKbased Manganese Bronze Holdings plc. Williams left the company at the end of April to pursue various private business ventures. Until the appointment of successor, Manganese : ronze CEO, Jamie Borwick, is taking direct charge of its plants in Ipswich, Birmingham and Redditch. Robert J. Lander has been elected to the board of directors at Stackpole Ltd (Toronto, Canada) effective 15 April 1999. Lander joined Stackpole in February 1999 as president and COO. Special Metals Corp (Hartford, NY, USA) has appointed T. Grant John to the newly created position of executive VP and COO, responsible for the company’s core nickelbased alloys business.
Spreadsheet aids process chemistry simulation SOFTWARE that can handle chemical and thermodynamic calculations in Excel has been released by a joint venture between GTT Technologies (Germany) and VTT Chemical Technology (Finland). The companies say ChemSheet@ is suitable for application in the metallurgical, chemical and process industries as well as in universities and education. ChemSheet uses complex numerical procedures with extensive thermodynamic data linked with
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appropriate reaction kinetics but produces the results in a simple Excel spreadsheet, thus making the simulation accessible to the general user. Applications range from analysis of laboratory data to practical process simulation and design. One potential application highlighted by the manufacturers is the phase mapping of metals, alloys and ceramics for annealing and sintering. GTT Technologies; tel: +49-2407-59533; fax: +492407-59661.
Aluminium (100 mesh) Brass @0:20f Bronze (9O:lO)
Copper (100 mesh)
3.01 1.68
1.99 1.79
Copper (atom irreg) Copper (atom spherical)
Copper (electrolytic) Graphite Forge (natural-PF5) Forge (natural-PFS5) PM (natural-PM@ PM (natural-PM19) Synthetic Iron Sponge t 100 mesh) Atomized (109 mesh> Electrolytic (100 mesh) Carbonyl Lead Manganese (electrolytic) Nickel-brass (64-18-18) Nickel (carbonyl) Nickel (atomized) Rhenium Stainless steel 316L Stainless steel 410L Stainless steel (spherical) Tin (atomized) Tungsten powder Tungsten carbide Tungsten carbide (submicron) Zinc (atomized)
2.40
1.86” 0.776* 0.746” 0.371 4.63 8.91
1.26-1.3’7
1.49-1.72 1.25-1.47 1.25-1.38 1.25-1.38
1.20 1.29 1.04 0.82 1.05 0.382 0.363 2.50-2.59 3.60-5.39 1.14-1.33 2.55-2.7~5 2.70
2.29 10.25 9.50 905 670 3.24 1.74-1.84 2.16 1.22-1.32 2.50 4.28-4.91 3.23-4.30 11.00 10.50 11.25 1.36-3.20
*Based on an exchange rate of Sf2.40 = El.00 f 3% ““Price in European Currency Units (ECU), EI=kg ._,
powder prices are designed to give readers a guide to market prices and trends. They are based on a range of sources which are not disclosed in order to protect the suppliers’ commercial interests. The magazine welcomes further contributions for existing products or new materials. Please contact the Editor with your suggestions. MPR’s
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Inc (La Trobe, PA, USA), the company’s CEO and president, Robert McGeehan, will retire from 1 July. Fred Belcher has retired as managing director of HiiganPs (Great Britain) Ltd after 28 years with the company. His successor is Dr Keven Harlow, formerly commercial director at London & Scandinavian Metallurgical co. Michael Williams has resigned from his post as managing director of the components division of UKbased Manganese Bronze Holdings plc. Williams left the company at the end of April to pursue various private business ventures. Until the appointment of successor, Manganese : ronze CEO, Jamie Borwick, is taking direct charge of its plants in Ipswich, Birmingham and Redditch. Robert J. Lander has been elected to the board of directors at Stackpole Ltd (Toronto, Canada) effective 15 April 1999. Lander joined Stackpole in February 1999 as president and COO. Special Metals Corp (Hartford, NY, USA) has appointed T. Grant John to the newly created position of executive VP and COO, responsible for the company’s core nickelbased alloys business.
Spreadsheet aids process chemistry simulation SOFTWARE that can handle chemical and thermodynamic calculations in Excel has been released by a joint venture between GTT Technologies (Germany) and VTT Chemical Technology (Finland). The companies say ChemSheet@ is suitable for application in the metallurgical, chemical and process industries as well as in universities and education. ChemSheet uses complex numerical procedures with extensive thermodynamic data linked with
10 MPR June 1999
appropriate reaction kinetics but produces the results in a simple Excel spreadsheet, thus making the simulation accessible to the general user. Applications range from analysis of laboratory data to practical process simulation and design. One potential application highlighted by the manufacturers is the phase mapping of metals, alloys and ceramics for annealing and sintering. GTT Technologies; tel: +49-2407-59533; fax: +492407-59661.
Aluminium (100 mesh) Brass @0:20f Bronze (9O:lO)
Copper (100 mesh)
3.01 1.68
1.99 1.79
Copper (atom irreg) Copper (atom spherical)
Copper (electrolytic) Graphite Forge (natural-PF5) Forge (natural-PFS5) PM (natural-PM@ PM (natural-PM19) Synthetic Iron Sponge t 100 mesh) Atomized (109 mesh> Electrolytic (100 mesh) Carbonyl Lead Manganese (electrolytic) Nickel-brass (64-18-18) Nickel (carbonyl) Nickel (atomized) Rhenium Stainless steel 316L Stainless steel 410L Stainless steel (spherical) Tin (atomized) Tungsten powder Tungsten carbide Tungsten carbide (submicron) Zinc (atomized)
2.40
1.86” 0.776* 0.746” 0.371 4.63 8.91
1.26-1.3’7
1.49-1.72 1.25-1.47 1.25-1.38 1.25-1.38
1.20 1.29 1.04 0.82 1.05 0.382 0.363 2.50-2.59 3.60-5.39 1.14-1.33 2.55-2.7~5 2.70
2.29 10.25 9.50 905 670 3.24 1.74-1.84 2.16 1.22-1.32 2.50 4.28-4.91 3.23-4.30 11.00 10.50 11.25 1.36-3.20
*Based on an exchange rate of Sf2.40 = El.00 f 3% ““Price in European Currency Units (ECU), EI=kg ._,
powder prices are designed to give readers a guide to market prices and trends. They are based on a range of sources which are not disclosed in order to protect the suppliers’ commercial interests. The magazine welcomes further contributions for existing products or new materials. Please contact the Editor with your suggestions. MPR’s
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