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The bricking machine holds the refractory bricks firmly against the furnace shell and aligns the brickwork to avoid catastrophic failure. This also avoids falling debris and other dangers throughout the bricking process, which reduces the chance of injury.
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The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.
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'A' is for Aerospace, and Alcoa... 'B' is for Billions ...

March 24, 2015
Alcoa Pushes Aggressive Investment, Expansion Strategy for Aerospace

Alcoa’s agreement to acquire integrated titanium producer RTI International Metals in a $1.5-billion, all-stock deal will bring new material resources and new production technologies into its portfolio, and broaden its capabilities for various processes -- including investment casting -- it is engaged in already. But, another way to understand the RTI purchase is as the latest flourish in a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar effort to situate Alcoa even more solidly in the aerospace supply chain. With capital investments in Alcoa operations, acquisitions of complementary organizations, and production and supply agreements, the company has transformed itself into something more than an aluminum producer.