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Article: Waterjets fabricate titanium.
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- Tooling & Production
- Article date:
- January 1, 1989
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Waterjets fabricate titanium
Employing needle-thin jets of water blasted at twice the speed of sound to cut one of nature's hardest substances enables Flameco Engineering Inc, Ogden, UT, to help keep America's aircraft flying.
Flameco, founded in 1968, is a precision manufacturer specializing in aircraft airframe and engine details and assemblies. The company manufactures sheet-metal assemblies of aluminum, titanium, Hastelloy, Inconel and other high-temperature alloys on many government and commercial aircraft programs.
Flameco turned to Ingersoll-Rand Waterjet Cutting Systems for two waterjets to cut periphery on a range of titanium ...