The German luxury car manufacturer Audi AG recently announced that the company will join the Formula 1 World Championship beginning with the 2026 season. The announcement was made ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix. Audi’s decision was made after the F1 introduces new regulations regarding the power unit and electrification that will kick in beginning […]
Read MoreExpecting to grow the manufacturing capacity by 500%, the San Jose, California-based company GAF Energy announced that it will open its second factory in Georgetown, Texas, 30 miles north of Austin. The 450,000 square-foot factory is expected to be completed in mid-2023, with a domestic production capacity of 300 MW per annum. The factory will […]
Read MoreA team of scientists from the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow has devised a new production method for making aerospace composite parts which gives them a final strength improvement of 15%, compared to that of conventional parts made of materials such as titanium alloys, that are omnipresent and widely-used in the aerospace […]
Read MorePalladium prices have exploded in the past decade, going from $5,300/kg in 2008, to $15,600/kg in 2016, $60,000/kg in 2020, and standing at $75,000 per kg right now. The valuable rare metal has been historically used in catalytic converters of cars, but it’s now also required by hydrogen fuel cell technology, an emerging technology that […]
Read MoreNickel is undergoing a wild pricing ride lately, being one of the most heavily affected metals of the market turbulence caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting sanctions and shortages. The region of Krasnoyarsk in Russia is one of the world’s major production hubs of nickel, so closing that supply tap makes […]
Read MoreResearchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed a novel laser-based system that can be used for precision and energy-efficient welding of construction metals. According to their measurements, the energy requirements of their system are roughly 85% lower than that of conventional welding methods, while the result is also typically of a higher quality […]
Read MoreSteelmaking giant ArcelorMittal SA has closed its Ukrainian steel mill on Thursday after facing raw material supply disruptions and increasing risks associated directly with the Russian invasion of the Eastern European country. The company shut down blast furnaces gradually as the supply problems culminated and forced the production to a minimum, but the escalating situation […]
Read MoreThe Cornell Fracture group has published the results of an ongoing study on the formation and propagation of fatigue cracks on metals and claims to have identified the mechanism that causes the cracks to grow. Their paper, titled “Atomic Mechanism of Near Threshold Fatigue Crack Growth in Vacuum,” explains that a molecular dislocation happens near […]
Read MoreThe Dutch prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Tata Steel for intentional and unlawful pollution, a result of the operation of its Amsterdam-based steelwork facilities. The authorities have also launched a probe involving specialist investigators to determine the scale and type of pollution that is taking place to compare it with the legal emission […]
Read MoreMIT researchers have developed a new processing method to help retrieve rare metals that are costly to mine and are getting increasingly harder to find. The technique is called “solid selective separation”, and it could replace liquid separation for at least 56 elements, 15 of which have already been tested successfully. Compared to liquid separation, […]
Read MoreFormer U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for raising an impermeable border in the south has failed to realize, but not before a whopping $16.4 billion was spent in funding the barrier construction. Now, hundreds of thousands of steel bollards, each costing about $9,000, lie in piles at various locations, rusting, creating an environmental hazard, and […]
Read MoreSteel is a very resilient material in general, but when it comes to subjecting it to harsh environments like seawater, you need to apply an anti-corrosive coating or it will rust pretty quickly. Researchers at the Rice University in Houston have tested a novel insulating material made out of sulfur and selenium and found that […]
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a novel type of stainless steel alloy that kills the COVID-19 virus within six hours. More specifically, the steel can deactivate 99.75% of the virus in three hours and reach a final 99.99% in six. This anti-pathogen steel would be ideal for surfaces that come into […]
Read MoreIberdrola has partnered with H2 Green Steel to develop a major facility that will produce about 2 million tons of ‘green iron’ annually, using green hydrogen instead of natural gas. The project will cost $2.6 billion, and it is expected to send ripples of turbulence in a field that is currently lacking behind in implementing […]
Read More3D printing or additive manufacturing may be generally known as a “shaping technology,” but as scientists at the City University of Hong Kong proved, it can be much more than that. The team of Chinese engineers successfully developed a novel titanium alloy by using a 3D printer to design the microstructures of the material, ending […]
Read MoreEngineers at Sandia National Laboratories have carried out a series of tests on specially designed stainless-steel containers used by the U.S. Department of Energy for storing and transporting hazardous materials, and the results of the tests are confusingly inconclusive. The goal was to test what happens in the case of a fire and to see […]
Read MoreThermoacoustic combustion oscillations (TCO) are the peril of internal combustion engines, but detecting the phenomenon in time and taking targeted action to stop and reverse it has remained a complicated case. A team of engineers from the Tokyo University of Science and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have developed a promising tool that detects […]
Read MoreElaine Thomas, a former metallurgist, and director at a foundry that provides steel to the U.S. Navy, has pleaded guilty in a Washington court, admitting to having falsified material strength test results numerous times in the past. This unethical practice has affected over 240 “cast high-yield” steel batches bought by the U.S. Navy for the […]
Read MoreResearchers at the North Carolina State University have developed a novel composite metal foam (CMF) which they claim is going to be a market-disrupting force. The material consists of metallic bubbles filled with air and then embedded within a metal matrix that can be made out of steel, aluminum, or any alloy. The benefit of […]
Read MoreA team of material engineers in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Washington, have developed a novel manufacturing method for aluminum 7075, an alloy that is highly valued in the industry but one that is notoriously hard to extrude and very costly to make. The high cost derives from the inadequacy of conventional extrusion methods, […]
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