Argon playing a key role in AM’s future
Reproducible quality of powder-metal 3D printed parts is essential for advanced aerospace, automotive and medical applications. Yet aluminum and titanium alloys are extremely sensitive to oxygen and humidity.
Reproducible quality of powder-metal 3D printed parts is essential for advanced aerospace, automotive and medical applications. Yet aluminum and titanium alloys are extremely sensitive to oxygen and humidity.
Fortunately for those who rely on National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap) welding using argon, a 2018 shortage in that supply of gas appears to be over.
Liquid argon, and lots of it, will be pivotal in the ground-breaking Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which gathers pace at two US locations in 2019.
In North America and Europe, it is calculated buildings consume a staggering 40% of the primary energy consumption. However, this figure can significantly be reduced if the buildings are purposefully designed, constructed and used with...
Argon’s growing demand is leading to concerns among US distributors of a tightening in demand.
Carburos Metálicos, a leading company in the industrial and medical gases sector in Spain, which is part of the Air Products Group, has brought together experts from the wine sector in an informative day dedicated...
MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions, has had its GE50A mass flow controller (MFC) products installed in the PK-4 Plasma Crystal Laboratory in the International Space Station (ISS).
Sparklike, developer and manufacturer of the world’s first non-destructive argon (Ar) analysers for insulating glass windows and doors, participated in this year’s Engineered Transparency, an international symposium, where Sparklike’s Sales Director, Mauri Saksala presented the paper: Independent...
Specialty gases are already the subject of a wide range of applications, the common denominator of which is their guarantee of purity or quality.
Linde is continuing to invest in innovation with the completion of a second atmosphere-controlled AM (additive manufacturing) test cell expected by the end of the year.