Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing and Xizi Aviation (Zehjiang, China) announced plans to install fluid-cell presses from Avure technologies, to manufacture sheetmetal parts for the Comac C919 single-aisle narrow-body airliners, to be built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. Learn more about Avure's fluid-cell press technology at http://industry.avure.com/solutions#sheet-metal-forming.
Technology for joining lightweight and dissimilar materials will be the focus of a new Solid State Joining Center hosted by Coldwater Machine Co., Coldwater, OH. The new unit includes a weld-development lab currently equipped with five friction-welding systems for testing and low-volume production. Work is focused on the increased use of aluminum, magnesium and composites in the automotive industry; www.coldwatermachine.com/services/spin-welding.
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl., Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, will design, manufacture and commission a pair of automated systems for the heattreatment of aluminum automotive structural components. Each system will include a solution furnace with rapid quench transfer capabilities, and an artificial aging oven with natural-gas heating. More at www.can-eng.com/.