Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1976 Howmet Corporation was the first company to offer hot isostatic pressing (HIP) services to the aerospace industry. The HIP process, which eliminated internal microshrinkage, helped engineers design components for critical, highly stressed applications essential for the more powerful, more efficient jet engines to come.
2000 Howmet became part of Alcoa
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