High Tech Ceramics News articles from August 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from August 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Expanding Markets for Piezoelectrics.
August 1, 2000... Piezoelectricity is electric polarization produced by mechanical strain in certain crystals, the polarization being proportional to the amount of strain and changing sign with it. The reverse is also true: an electrical polarization will...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Ceramic Contains Nuclear Waste.
August 1, 2000... Scientists at London's Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine have developed a ceramic that can withstand long-term bombardment of radiation, and may contain nuclear waste safely for tens of thousands of years. The problems...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Ultra-Fine BaTiO in Non-Aqueous Solvent.
August 1, 2000... Miniaturization is one of the important key technologies in the capacitor industry. The key factor to develop the technology is to make dielectric layers thinner, which requires the well-dispersed suspensions of ultra-fine powder. Murata...

COATINGS: New Offering from Aremco.
August 1, 2000... Aremco has introduced a new coating, Aremco Corr-Paint CP4040, a single-part, white-pigmented, ceramic- and silicone-filled, water- dispersible coating. Intended for painting and protecting large aluminum and steel structures used in...

Center Uses EB/PVD.
August 1, 2000... Ceramic Coating Center, a joint venture company of SNECMA Services and MTU Munich, has a joint venture to provide coatings services to aircraft engine components. The Center has now signed a contract with ALD Vacuum Technologies for the...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: SiC/SiC Composites with Oxide Interphases.
August 1, 2000... Japanese researchers A. Kohyama (Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto); M. Sato, Y. Tanaka, T. Yamamura (Ube Industries, Ltd., Ube, Yamaguchi); and K. Okamura (Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan) have developed SiC/SiC composites using...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning Expands LCD Glass Business.
August 1, 2000... Corning, Inc. will invest an additional $250 million to increase production of its active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) glass. The capital expenditure will be used to expand capacity at the company's facility in Harrodsburg, Kentucky,...

BIOCERAMICS: Hydroxypatite Coating Via Sol-Gel Route.
August 1, 2000... University of British Columbia researchers D. M. Liu and T. B. Troczynski have synthesized hydroxyapatite (HAp) sol via an alkoxide-based sol-gel route. They systematically investigated the synthesis conditions, such as solution pH, the...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Altair Begins Ceramic Oxide Study.
August 1, 2000... Altair Intl., Inc. reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, Altair Technologies, has begun development of ceramic oxide fuel cell membranes and reactive catalyst support structures. If successful, the technology could have widespread...

Ceramic Filter Made Sans Refractory.
August 1, 2000... NGK Insulators, Ltd. (2-56 Suda-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467, Japan; Tel: 052/872-7171, Fax: 052/872-7690) has developed a process for producing a ceramic filter under low-temperature conditions. No refractory methods are required for the...

CATALYSTS: Toyota Introduces Catalyst System.
August 1, 2000... Toyota Motor Corp. has developed a new ceramic catalytic system called DPNR system (i.e., .NOx Absorption Reduction-Type Three- Element Catalysis). The new catalyst dramatically reduces both NOx and diesel particular soot materials (PM)...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Ceramics with Controlled Resistivity.
August 1, 2000... The Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) business is focused on supplying ceramic components and assemblies primarily to the medical, telecommunications, semiconductor, and aerospace markets. It possesses highly differentiated metallizing...

New Thermistors from Murata.
August 1, 2000... Murata Electronics, NA has introduced three SMT package thermistors. The new 0603 package thermistors are produced to adjust to the demands of downsizing in the computer and automotive markets. Two of the positive temperature coefficient...

CTS Gets Base Station Equipment Contract.
August 1, 2000... Following the establishment of a new CTS Interconnect Systems manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China, CTS today has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by one of the world's largest base station infrastructure equipment...

High Dielectric Constant Composites.
August 1, 2000... Pennsylvania State University researchers Y. Bai, V. Bharti, Z. Y. Cheng, H. Xu, and Q. M. Zhang have reported a new polymer ceramic composite using the newly developed relaxor ferroelectric polymer with high dielectric constant as the matrix....

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Intermagnetics Licenses Lucent Patents.
August 1, 2000... Intermagnetics General Corp. has announced a license agreement with Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) for a portfolio of 120 U.S. and international patents, and pending patents for superconducting materials and devices. Intermagnetics paid Lucent...

Superconductors Make the Grid Reliable.
August 1, 2000... American Superconductor and Wisconsin Public Service Corp. announced the successful operation of the world's first commercial superconductor-based solution for power grid reliability. The solution consists of multiple, distributed...

Filter Contract for Conductus.
August 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDTS), a leading manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, has announced that it has been awarded a subcontract from General Dynamics in connection with General Dynamics' receipt of a prime contract from the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: QS 9000 Certification for Carborundum.
August 1, 2000... Carborundum Corp., Boron Nitride Division of St. Gobain Corp., manufactures boron nitride solids, powders, and coatings for electronic, refractory, cosmetic, and glass- and metal-processing industries. Carborundum has now received QS 9000...

Norton Makes Tender Offer.
August 1, 2000... The boards of directors of Chemfab Corp. and Norton Co., a U.S.- based subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, jointly announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which a subsidiary of Norton Co. will begin a tender offer on August...

Unifrax Buys Fiber Business.
August 1, 2000... Unifrax Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the worldwide ceramic fiber business of Carborundum Insulation Technologies (CIT), an operating unit of Compagnie de Saint- Gobain. The purchase price was not disclosed. In...

Record Net Income for Intermagnetics.
August 1, 2000... Intermagnetics General Corp. (Amex:IMG), has reported fourth- quarter net income of $2.1 million ($0.14 per diluted share), compared with a net loss of $7.0 million ($0.55 per diluted share) a year earlier. Net sales increased to $29.4 million...

Record Quarter for Nanophase.
August 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp., a leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced its second quarter and first-half 2000 results. For the quarter ended June 30, 2000, total revenue was approximately $1,105,000, compared with...

American Superconductor Revenues Up.
August 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. reported that revenues for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001 ended June 30, 2000, increased by 73% to $3.92 million from $2.27 million in the first quarter of the previous fiscal year. The net loss for the...

Record 2Q for Ceradyne.
August 1, 2000... Ceradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRDN) has reported record sales and earnings for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2000. Second quarter sales grew 60% to $11,699,000 from $7,331,000 in the second quarter of 1999. Net income increased...

CoorsTek Sees Sales Gain.
August 1, 2000... CoorsTek, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:CRTK) sales increased 33% in the second quarter of 2000 to $127.4 million compared with 1999 second quarter results. During this same period, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) grew 31% to $13.9 million. The...

STI Revenues Increase Five-Fold.
August 1, 2000... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON, STI), a leading developer and manufacturer of superconducting products for wireless communications and wireless Internet access, has announced that for the second quarter of 2000, commercial...

E-Portal Launched for Ceramic Machines.
August 1, 2000... A new portal listing for ceramic machinery, www.eCeramicMachinery.com, has been launched. The new online service is devoted to the ceramics industry. The site, a unit of eMACHINERYTRADE, LCC, lists machinery for sale by dealers and users...

ATC Plunges into E-Commerce.
August 1, 2000... American Technical Ceramics Corp. (Website: www.atceramics.com), a leading manufacturer of ceramic RF and microwave components, has announced that it has enabled its website with e-commerce capabilities, making it the first RF/microwave...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2000... September 6-9, 2000, ACerS Pacific Coast Regional Meeting with Basic Science Division, Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...