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Materials Spotlight . . . Metals & Alloys
Aerospace alloy. Project 7000 15Cr-5Ni stainless steel provides superior machinability and meets all requirements of Aerospace Material Specification AMS 5659 covering bars, wire, forgings, rings and extrusions. The alloy offers potential for increased capacity and longer tool life, and is available as a "drop-in" replacement for conventional 15Cr-5Ni stainless in applications where improved machining productivity is desired. Possessing high strength and hardness, along with excellent corrosion resistance, this precipitation-hardening alloy is a candidate material for rod-end bearings, a variety of aircraft structural components, and some engine parts. This alloy is vacuum melted, chemically balanced and processed to optimize machinability in solution-annealed as well as age-hardened conditions. Carpenter Specialty Alloys, Reading, PA. Free Info - Circle 700
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Top Product
Rare earth tube magnet. Forty percent stronger than standard
magnets, the new RE5HP magnets, made from Erium 3000, provide an extremely high level of
separation efficiency. State-of-the-art circuit geometry and increased holding power
improve separation of fine and weakly magnetic contaminants in processing applications
such as pharmaceutical/chemical powders, liquid lines and food processing. Wash-off by
product flow is virtually eliminated. Eriez Magnetics, Erie, PA. 
Pure aluminum heated parts. This new ability to cast complex
heated shapes in 99.7 percent pure aluminum limits process contamination and offers
increased operating temperatures to 450°C. Pure aluminum cast-in heated parts provide
higher maximum operating temperatures over the more typical aluminum casting alloys.
Applications include photolithography bake plating in semiconductor processing,
foodservice, packaging and medical equipment. Watlow Batavia, Batavia, IL.
Super alloys. Small quantities of stainless steel and other
high-performance alloys are available for prototype development, including strip and foil,
flat and shaped wire, sheet, plate and bar. Stainless steel and nickel alloy strip are
available either off-the-shelf or rolled to specific gauges and tempers. Other strip
products include titanium and titanium alloys, cobalt alloys, aluminum, beryllium copper
and other copper alloys, and carbon steel. Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special
Metals Inc, North Haven, CT. 
2% lithium copper. This material is available in 3 to 4 oz.
polished pieces, which are specially cleaned and polished to remove surface oxides that
often can cause defects in fine-detailed castings. 2% lithium copper is a solid alloy form
that readily dissolves in molten metal without reaction or disturbance. It is an ideal
deoxidizer for pure copper, copper base alloys and precious metals. Belmont Metals
Inc, Brooklyn, NY. 
Tantalum machining and forming.This company has developed
advanced forming and machining techniques to produce custom parts and assemblies from
tantalum and tantalum alloys. They have particular expertise in forming seamless vessels,
tubing, cones and more from tantalum, with sizes ranging from 0.003-in. wall thickness and
up, with height-to-diameter ratios of 20:1 or more. B-J Enterprises Inc, Albany,
OR.