The Global Open-Die Forging Market (US)

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The global open-die forging industry is looking back to some of the more difficult years in history. However new developments and challenging requirements from the markets lead to an especially increasing demand for high quality forgings. The global open-die forging market reached a volume of 5.2 million tonnes in 2017, an increase of 5% over the year 2016 as selected markets recovered. Overall the main markets for open-die forgings are in different phases of their business cycle. The aerospace industry is promising steady growth, the automotive industry growing Continue reading→

Il y a dix ans, 50 % des aciers n’existaient pas (FR)

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Une mission sénatoriale sur les enjeux de la filière sidérurgique dans la France du XXIe  siècle est en cours. Pour quoi faire ? Les sénateurs François Grosdidier (LR) et Jean-Marc Todeschini (photo ci-dessus) chacun vice- présidents de cette mission, donnent leur sentiment. Le rapport sera rendu fin juin.

Pourquoi une mission parlementaire sur la sidérurgie du XXIe  siècle ?

Jean-Marc TODESCHINI : la sidérurgie, et donc l’acier, ou plutôt les aciers – on en dénombre plus de 3 500 –, sont indispensables à toute notre industrie ; du BTP aux instruments chirurgicaux en passant par l’automobile, etc. La filière n’est peut-être pas rentable mais elle est primordiale à l’économie de notre nation.

Que découvrez-vous au fil de vos visites et auditions ?

François GROSDIDIER : Trop de gens restent dans l’image de la sidérurgie de papa ou de Zola. Or, il s’agit d’un

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Scientists apply AI to predict material properties (US)

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Researchers from Singapore, the U.S. and Russia have developed artificial intelligence that can be applied to materials science, in order to predict and engineer material properties. This could lead to creating new materials with special properties. 

Technologists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have teamed up with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology to build a machine learning system that is capable of predicting changes to the properties of materials from straining the material. It is hoped that the new approach will lead to the engineering of new materials with tailored properties. Potential applications include Continue reading→

POSCO Chairman visits overseas units (US)

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POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo, right, shakes hands with an employee at PT Krakatau POSCO in Indonesia, Monday. PT Krakatau is a steel mill set up jointly by POSCO and Indonesia’s PT Krakatau Steel. Courtesy of POSCO

POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo embarked on a tour to the group’s overseas units in Southeast Asian countries, marking his first visit to the outside units as the steelmaking group’s chairman, POSCO said Tuesday. As the first destination of the trip, Choi visited PT Krakatau POSCO, a POSCO steel mill in Indonesia, on Monday and will stay overseas until Friday to drop by a rebar manufacturing body in Vietnam and a Myanmar gas field developed byContinue reading→

EcoTitanium: quand le titane s’allie à l’économie circulaire (FR)

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Première usine de recyclage de titane aéronautique en Europe, EcoTitanium s’affiche comme un nouvel acteur dans l’approvisionnement de l’industrie aéronautique. Située dans le Puy-de-Dôme, l’entreprise recycle. Et recrute.

Située à Saint-Georges-de-Mons (Auvergne), EcoTitanium est la première usine de recyclage de titane aéronautique en Europe capable de produire des alliages à partir de chutes massives et de copeaux de titane collectés chez les grands constructeurs aéronautiques et leurs sous-traitants.

Des technologies de pointe

Pour cela, la joint-venture d’Aubert & Duval (groupe Eramet) et du kazakh UKTMP International avec l’État français dans le cadre du Programme des Investissements d’Avenir et le Crédit Agricole Centre France, a investi près de 48

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US Air Force Materials Expert Receives The Jaap Schijve Award (US)

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Dr. Adam Pilchak has emerged as the United States Air Force’s leading expert in microstructural fatigue and damage tolerance of titanium alloys, which are used worldwide in military and commercial aerospace systems.

The Jaap Schijve Award is an international award presented by The Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR and Delft University of Technology to promote the disciplines of fatigue and damage tolerance for aerospace applications. Dr. Adam Pilchak of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is this year’s recipient of the Jaap Schijve award. The award is based on technical contributions to the advancement of the field of aeronautical fatigue. The award is selected from young researchers all over the world who are early in their career – preferablyContinue reading→

U.S-Hired Firm Audits Russia’s Rusal For Compliance With Sanctions Deal (US)

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A firm hired by the U.S. Treasury Department is auditing Russian aluminum giant Rusal to check whether it is complying with the terms of a deal under which Washington agreed to lift sanctions on the company, Rusal said. The audit is the first glimpse of how Treasury is policing whether Rusal and its parent company En+ are adhering to the deal – in particular the stipulation that Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s control over the business be severed. A source familiar with the situation said the audit included checks on the telephone and email records of a small circle of Rusal senior executives and board members to establish whether they remained in contact Continue reading→

Universal Alloys Corporation To Build in Vietnam The First Aerospace Components Factory (US)

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The construction of Vietnam’s first aerospace component factory in Da Nang city begins on March 29. 

The Universal Alloys Corporation ASIA PTE., LTD (UAC) and the People’s Committee of the central city of Da Nang on March 29 started the construction of an aerospace component factory in the city. The Sunshine factory, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has a registered investment of 170 million USD and aims to produce and install aerospace components from aluminum alloys and composite in service of the industry. It will turn out about 4,000 out of the 5 million aircraft components, all for export. The factory is scheduled to achieve an export value of 25 million USD inContinue reading→

HY-100 the oustanding steel of the U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-Class Submarine (US)

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To combat the threat of the Soviet’s Akula class, the U.S. Navy responded with the Seawolf class of nuclear attack submarines. The Seawolf submarines were designed with HY-100 steel alloy hulls  two inches thick , the better to withstand the pressures of deep diving. HY-100 steel is roughly  20 percent stronger  than the HY-80 used in the Los Angeles class. As a result, the submarines are capable of diving to depths of up to two thousand feet, and crush depth estimates run from 2,400 to 3,000 feet.

he extreme quietness of the Seawolf class gave the Navy the idea of modifying the last submarine, USS Jimmy Carter, to support clandestine operations. An extra one hundred feet was added to the hull, a section known as the  Multi-Mission Platform  (MMP). The MMP gives Carter the ability to send and recover Remotely Operated Vehicles/Unmanned Underwater Vehicles and SEALs and diving teams while submerged. It includes berthing for up to fifty SEALs or other attached personnel. Carter also features auxiliary maneuvering devices fore and aft for precise maneuvering in situations such as undersea cable tapping and other acts of espionage.Continue reading→

US Navy invents zinc-free anode enhanced by ‘very small addition of tin (US)

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A U.S. Navy research team has discovered an alloy for making better, cheaper underwater anodes with the potential for shifting the global business of maintaining ships and piers. A patent application was published by the federal government on Thursday for the new aluminum anode alloy containing a “very small addition of tin.” It was invented by Craig Matzdorf and Alan Grieve of the Naval Air Warfare Center’s Aircraft Division in Maryland. Sacrificial anodes are attached to marine vessels and structures to protect them from corrosion caused by the flow of electrons between metal surfaces like iron, steel, and aluminum. When submerged in seawater, these metals form a battery. Many anodes are made of alloys consisting mostly of zinc, a metal that can easily absorb the electrons Continue reading→