General Motors and the GM China Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai announced today the first trial run of the facility’s new Vertical Squeeze Casting machine, the first of its kind in the world ...

Magnesium alloys hold promise as a lightweight material to reduce weight in automobiles and transportation systems, offering potential to enhance fuel economy and reduce emissions, but low formability ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have found a way to manufacture low cost superconducting wire that may make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines affordable for most doctor’s ...

FisherCast Global Corp. Peterborough, Ont. Magnesium alloys increasingly replace aluminum, zinc, and other materials in structural automotive parts because they are much lighter. Magnesium's low ...

The Keronite process is a chrome-free surface treatment based on plasma-electrolytic oxidation. It is widely used to transform aluminum and magnesium-alloy surfaces into hard, dense ceramic with ...