Men of steel strengthen SSAB
The 13 full-time engineers and analysts at Swedish steelmaker SSAB's new research and development facility north of Montpelier hold a combined 24 degrees from such learned places as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Colorado School of Mines.
That education should come in handy: the new facility, where the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, is full of fancy gadgets that don't operate tmp4saleshemselves.
All those high-tech machines, including electron microscopes, a supewholesalersblogr-fast-cooling bath and an underwater plasma cutter, help the company make stronger, lighter, purer steel.
Elected officials joined state economic developers, officials from the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and SSAB employees - including the president and chief executive officer, Olof Faxander - to officially open the $11 million facility, which has been in operation sinrootabcce August.
Electron microscopes that magnify 500,riceabc000 times - enough to make what are tiny imperfections in a steel sample look like craters on the moon. Customers require different purities of steel,mini electric car explained Rick Bodnar, director of research and development for SSAB's operations in the Americas. Having fewer imperfections isn't necessarily better; steel that's too "clean" is more difficult to machine.
A heat-treatment laboratory, where Sanjay Gupta, a senior research analyst, used an engineered bath to cool a hunk of steel from 1,650-degrees Fahrenheit to room
The underwater quenching simulator helps researchers learn ideal temperatures for bending different kinds of steel, Bodnar said.
In what looks like the best-equipped shop classroom in the world, research analyst Scott Smith used an underwater plasma cutter to trim a circle and a square out of 3/4-inch-thick steel. Once he'd programmed in what he wanted, the spark- and crackle-producing process took him just a few seconds.
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