Extrusion, which can produce complex parts made of lightweight metals, is an increasingly important manufacturing process for everything from buildings to electric vehicles. Pacific Northwest National ...

Today’s manufacturing industry faces several challenges. Companies are looking for ways to increase efficiency, reduce costs, lower carbon emissions and improve their products — all while remaining ...

Earlier this year, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, announced that it took delivery of the second generation of its ShAPE, or Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion, ...

PNNL’s ShAPE extrusion process produced this 7.5 mm diameter tube with a 0.75 mm wall thickness from flakes of a magnesium alloy. Magnesium, the lightest of all structural metals, has a lot going for ...

Keerti Kappagantula, a materials scientist at PNNL, is part of a team working to fabricate copper and aluminum wires that are more conductive than regular copper for use in the transportation industry ...