What Are the Best Ways to Improve Your Machining Operation?
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by Emily Newton
2y ago
Machining is never a cheap process — it takes significant amounts of time, money, equipment and expertise to do well. The owners of most machining operations, as a result, are aware of how even small business decisions and process changes can impact productivity and profitability. For modern machining operations, a few key factors — like maintenance, cutting conditions and training — are the most important to manage. 1. Optimize for Tool Life — But Know Where to Draw the Line Maintenance is essential to the function of any machining operation. Optimizing tool life should be the goal, but m ..read more
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Tracking the Advances in the Conversion of CO2 Into Polymers
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by Sreeparna Das
2y ago
The chemical industry’s demand for carbon continues to grow, and so does the need to lower its dependency on fossil fuels. This, coupled with the goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, has accelerated feedstock innovations. Along with new generations of bio-based feedstocks and advanced recycled raw materials, the industry is actively exploring Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technologies to use CO2 as a feedstock. Some promising advances have been made in recent years, and we start to see examples of commercial products. A joint partnership between LanzaTech, Total Energies and L ..read more
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Stainless Steel Components in High-Temperature Applications: Controlling Emissions with Niobium
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by Caio Pisano
2y ago
One of the hottest topics of the modern industry is the reduction of emissions and how all players can work together in the supply chain to lessen our impacts on the environment. If you are reading this article, you have probably already been exposed to some important actions of this strategy, such as the electrification of vehicles, smart cities infrastructure, de-materialization of constructions, green energy generation, green hydrogen initiatives, solid oxide fuel cells and many others. Many technologies are being developed while many others are being optimized to support the achievement ..read more
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It’s a Material World: A Materials Science Podcast for Everyone
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by Sabine Mair
2y ago
Materials are the building blocks that make up the world as we know it. From the steel and aluminum structure that you use to drive to work everyday to the silicon in the device you’re using right now, materials innovation plays an essential role in our everyday lives. The podcast ‘It’s a Material World’, hosted by Punith Upadhya and David Yeh, explores a variety of interesting materials-related topics, including polymers in healthcare, the history of ceramics, and metal applications in space. We spoke to Punith and David to hear about the motivation behind starting the podcast and what they ..read more
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The Matmatch Guide to Content Writing for Material Suppliers
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by Samir Jaber
2y ago
How to create engaging content for your products’ use cases As a material supplier, an essential part of your marketing strategy, be it for brand awareness or product use cases, is content creation. Content is arguably the most effective way to reach, inform, and educate engineers, designers, and product developers. It plays a significant role in converting them into potential leads. In this guide, we explain to you the value of content and provide you with tips and guidelines for writing a content piece. Tip #1: Read this guide carefully. Why content? The fundamental value of content crea ..read more
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Here’s How 3D Printing Is Disrupting Sand Casting
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by Emily Newton
3y ago
Sand casting has a history dating back thousands of years, and it has remained virtually unchanged during that time. However, things are changing now, thanks to 3D printing. Here are some of the outcomes of those endeavors.  Helping a Well-Established Company Stay Innovative In today’s highly competitive marketplace, even companies established more than a century ago have to continually improve to keep customers satisfied and stop them from going elsewhere for services. D.W. Clark is a multi-alloy metal casting company that implemented 3D printing for its sand casting methods and got ..read more
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How Word Embeddings Discover New Thermoelectrics
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by Vineeth Venugopal
3y ago
Talk to anyone today and they will tell you that Artificial Intelligence is the next big thing – the hot potato that everyone wants a piece of, but no one can chew.  A good majority of them will also tell you that much of what goes around as AI is really just a hype – a glorification of good old machine learning and mathematics dressed in Powerpoint. And for the most part, they would be right.  However, one area where the application of AI tools such as Deep Learning have been nothing short of revolutionary is in Natural Language Processing. An easy example are the chatbots that ma ..read more
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How to Choose the Right Abrasive for Metal Fabrication
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by Emily Newton
3y ago
It’s challenging to meet metal fabrication goals without selecting the right abrasive. Numerous factors will combine to determine which ones to use. However, the tips here provide some useful insight for achieving the desired outcomes and avoiding pitfalls. Understand How Some Abrasives and Methods Could Affect the Material An excellent starting point is to verify how different abrasive types and ways of using them could prove inappropriate for the base material. For example, the heat buildup of a grinding wheel could discolor stainless steel. That’s not a problem if the part will eventual ..read more
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Top 10 Useful Applications of Alumina Powder
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by Jordan Flagel
3y ago
What is alumina powder? Alumina powder, also known as aluminium oxide or activated alumina, is a chemical compound that is mainly used to produce aluminium – one of the most important metals in the advancement of a low-carbon economy and throughout the global industry as a whole. Alumina powder is created from bauxite, the principal ore of aluminium. The bauxite ore consists of a mixture of gibbsite, boehmite, iron oxides, iron hydroxides, quartz, and clay minerals. Alumina is extracted via the Bayer process, where the chemical component Al2O3 (alumina powder) is distilled from the bauxite m ..read more
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Transparent Wood and Other Breakthroughs in Wood Science
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by Arthur Thirion
3y ago
Versatile, carbon-neutral, renewable. No, this isn’t the marketing slogan for a special new material that has just been developed, but three of the key features of a very familiar material – wood – a material that to this day still surprises us with its adaptability and continues to be at the forefront of materials development. In this article, I will dive into some of these exciting developments – from transparent wood to carbonised wood composites. Firstly, a quick refresher on wood. Wood is a natural composite of cellulose fibres embedded within a lignin matrix. Cellulose acts as long bar ..read more
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