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Valbruna, founded in 1925, is a private company with 2.500 employees and an annual output of 200.000 tons of specialty steels. Today, Valbruna, with three production plants in Vicenza, Bolzano and Fort Wayne , IN (USA), is a leader in the production of Stainless Steels, High Nickel & Titanium Alloys Long products, available in ingots, blooms & billets, reinforcing bars, wire rod, wire, round, hexagon, flat, square and angl
The continuous increase of air traffic and the need to transport people and goods with more and more capable aircraft, powered by more efficient motors, with low carbon consumption and little environmental impact, presents a growing challenge for producers of metallic materials. Jet engines, in particular, are one of the most hostile operating environments: high temperatures, corrosive fluids, centrifugal forces, friction, high pressures and cycle fatigue. Even the structural components such as those of the airframe, the landing gear, or the fasteners (rivets) must fulfil very serious tasks: they must offer the greatest performance in environments subject to great fluctuations of temperature and extended cycle fatigue while guaranteeing...