This article was updated May 25, 2023. It was originally published Nov. 17, 2009. To put hard, durable threaded holes in plastics, engineers often specify threaded metal inserts that will securely ...

Plumbing and automotive fittings machined by C&C Automatics Inc., Newark, N.Y.(www.ccautomatics.com) were originally made from 303 stainless-steel bar stock. "We were running at 15% of our quoted job ...

Inside a lab near Washington, D.C., there is a stack of stainless steel that weighs a million pounds. It's part of a unique machine that was built in 1965 and just refurbished for the first time. And ...