Blue Arc Advancement

By Michael Mecham .

At jet engine maker GE Aviation’s Hooksett factory near Manchester, N.H., thinking global means adapting someone else’s idea to create a winning combination of reduced tooling and production costs for hard-to-machine superalloys.

The story started in 2001 at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, N.Y., which passed on some intel from GE ...

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