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    DTE
    DTE liquid-phase laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy” (LP-LIBS™) analyzer.
    Ryzhov Sergey | Dreamstime
    Scanning electron microscope
    Bricking Solutions
    The bricking machine holds the refractory bricks firmly against the furnace shell and aligns the brickwork to avoid catastrophic failure. This also avoids falling debris and other dangers throughout the bricking process, which reduces the chance of injury.
    Fraunhofer IFAM
    The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.
    IBC Advanced Alloys
    Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy bars.
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    Highlights

    SinterCast
    SinterCast sampling cup.
    July 10, 2025
    Following last year’s drop in commercial vehicle demand, compacted graphite iron output is rising again – up 10% from the first quarter of this year.
    April 25, 2024
    Wisconsin’s new regulations on transport of metallic and non-metallic materials will make the ferrous foundry’s pig iron deliveries more economical and environmentally responsible...
    Aleksandr Matveev | Dreamstime
    Feb. 27, 2024
    A 12-month project aims to develop a mathematical model of the two-way coupling between liquid metal flow and the oxide layer above it, with the latter behaving as a non-Newtonian...
    Thiti Tangjitsangiem | Dreamstime
    'Availability of new foundry sand is already becoming a challenge, along with the need of providing new solutions to waste management,” according to the director of a metallurgical research center.
    Oct. 3, 2023
    Process and handling costs, plus metalcasters’ growing sense of environmental liability, are creating an opening for thermal and mechanical processes for recovering spent sand...
    Branimir Ritonja | Dreamstime
    Automotive cast parts.
    Aug. 29, 2023
    It's time to define some of the terminology of metalcasting, starting with the metals that are cast. Or, more specifically, to establish a baseline understanding of the metals...
    LIFT
    LIFT’s Detroit research center opened in 2015, and includes an industrial workspace and “Learning Lab,” and a satellite location in Sterling Heights, Mich.
    May 17, 2023
    The U.S.-backed public-private R&D partnership will continue its materials, process, and talent development efforts for five years under a $49-million agreement.
    Simone Neuhold / RHI Magnesita
    Many refractory products are custom-developed and manufactured for particular applications, and also usually contaminated with material they have absorbed while lining furnaces or ladles, which makes the recycling process a challenge.
    May 1, 2023
    The goal is a sensor-based system for automated sorting of spent refractories, to increase recycling rates for refractory breakout material from as little as 7% to 80%.
    LIFT
    Michigan Tech undergraduates developed a powder metal atomization chamber, with LIFT support, toward production of new alloys for additive manufacturing.
    April 18, 2023
    The LIFT research institute and undergraduate teams at Michigan Tech developed a new metal atomization chamber to support production of powdered metals, in support of hypersonics...
    Business Wire
    TriTech owner Robert Swenson, shown with the Production System P-1, is a titanium manufacturing expert.
    March 21, 2023
    TriTech Titanium Parts LLC is making complex titanium components efficiently and cost-effectively after customer-qualifying its additive manufacturing operations for Ti64.