Alcoa expands in Morristown.Alcoa, Cleveland, will invest more than $6 million to expand manufacturing at its Howmet Product and Services' Morristown, Tenn., operation, which supplies ceramic This article is about ceramic materials. For the fine art, see Ceramic art. The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικός (keramikos). cores to form the internal cooling passages of investment-cast turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. airfoils. Matt Kilgore, manufacturing manager at the facility, said the 16,000-sq.-ft. construction project, which began in November, will be completed mid-2007 and operational by the year's end. "We are installing a high-temperature tunnel kiln a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a See also: Tunnel that will exceed the capacity of our existing kiln by 10%," he said. "The expansion also will include a complement of new pre-bake ovens, CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control. CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication machines and presses." Expanding the facility's capacity will enable it to respond to rising demand, said a company press release. |
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