AVT GmbH Becomes Part of the Busch Group

“In AVT GmbH we are winning a competent partner for the heat treatment equipment service business”

14-Nov-2024 - Dr.-Ing. Karl Busch GmbH, part of the global Busch Group, has acquired AVT GmbH from Kleve, Germany. AVT (Atmosphere and Vacuum Technology) offers spare parts and services for industrial furnaces used for heat treatment of workpieces. AVT offers high-quality, durable spare parts and services for ...

Modified microwave oven cooks up next-gen semiconductors

The breakthrough could change the geometry of transistors used in microchips

13-Sep-2022 - A household microwave oven modified by a Cornell engineering professor is helping to cook up the next generation of cellphones, computers and other electronics after the invention was shown to overcome a major challenge faced by the semiconductor industry. The research is detailed in ...

WACKER Prepares to Expand Its Silicon Metal Production in Norway

30-May-2022 - Wacker Chemie AG is preparing to expand its production capacity for silicon metal at Holla, Norway. The Munich-based chemical company has already started a feasibility study to this effect. The construction of a new furnace is planned, which will increase capacity in Holla by around 50 percent of ...

A thoroughly modern magnesium process

07-Aug-2017 - University of Colorado Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today's leading methods. The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of Professor Alan Weimer, could vastly ...

How best to stir a steel furnace, and beat corrosion

04-Apr-2017 - Two steel research projects led by Swansea University -- a better way to tackle corrosion, and more efficient use of furnaces -- are on a list of only eleven awards, across all subjects and the whole UK, by the Royal Society, one of the world's most prestigious scientific organisations. The ...

Thermo-Optical Measuring method (TOM) could save several million tons of CO2 in coal-fired plants

27-May-2016 - Coal-fired plants as alternative energy source to nuclear power are essential for ensuring the energy supply. But due to the high CO2 emission their combustion process requires optimization. In various projects the Center of Device Development CeDeD of Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ...

Carbolite and Gero become Carbolite-Gero

17-Dec-2014 - Carbolite GmbH, the German sales organization of the British company Carbolite Ltd., and Gero Hochtemperaturöfen GmbH & Co. KG will merge to form a new company - Carbolite-Gero GmbH & Co. KG - on 1 January 2015. This company will provide a portfolio of furnaces and ovens which covers a ...

Faster degreasing of aluminium foil

Corona method replaces annealing furnaces

24-Jul-2013 - Aluminium which is almost completely airtight is used in households and industry in order to keep food fresh and warm. For this purpose, a foil thickness of less than 0.007 millimetres – even thinner than a human hair – is already sufficient. In order to achieve this degree of thinness, the ...

REACH Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern for Authorisation Grows

14-Jan-2010 - The European Chemicals Agency has added 14 chemical substances to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for authorisation. Companies manufacturing or importing these substances need to check their potential obligations that result from the listing. The substances which ECHA ...

ECHA to add 15 new substances of very high concern to the Candidate List

09-Dec-2009 - ECHA´s Member State Committee identified 15 new chemical substances for the Candidate List of substances of very high concern. The List will formally be updated in January 2010. The Member State Committee agreed unanimously that 15 new substances of very high concern (SVHC) should be put on the ...