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1. Vacuum arc remelting principle
1.1 History
The history of the VAR process began in 1942 with the creation of the US Department of Energy's Albany Research Center, whose initial objective was to study the potential of electrical energy for mineral processing in the state of Oregon. . Research into zirconium alloys led to the development of the first VAR furnace and the first Zircaloy ingots as early as 1946. The first applications were nuclear fuel cladding for US Navy submarine reactors. This was followed by the first titanium alloy...
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Liquid Metal Processing & Casting Conference (LMPC), international conference on smelting and secondary metallurgy processes, held every two years alternately in Europe and the USA (odd-numbered years).
International Conference on Ingot Casting, Rolling and Forging (ICRF), international conference on ingot remelting,...
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French producers of metal alloys remelted by the VAR process:
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APERAM Alloys, producer of nickel-cobalt alloys, special steels and superalloys.
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AUBERT & DUVAL,...
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