High Tech Ceramics News articles from August 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from August 2005

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: PVD to See Double Digit Growth.
August 1, 2005... For high performance ceramic coatings and for thin film coatings in electronics, physical vapor deposition (PVD) is one of the versatile processes. The goal of PVD is to impart specific properties to a surface to change or alter its...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS Armor Tiles for The Military.
August 1, 2005... General Dynamics Armament & Technical Products (4 LakePointe Plaza, 2118 Water Ridge Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28217) has been awarded a $37.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Army for the production of ~168 enhanced-capability reactive...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Nanoparticles Increase Storage in Tape Drive.
August 1, 2005... In an early application of nanotechnology, Fuji Photo Film USA announced that its Fujifilm 3592 WormTape Cartridge with native capacities of as much as 300GB, is commercially available. The company said its Nanocubic coating technology is used...

COATINGS: Thick Coatings on Plastic Substrates.
August 1, 2005... NEI Corp. has developed a new class of ceramic coatings for applications that require dense and thick ceramic coatings on plastic substrates. Nanomyte CeramicCoat, as the coatings are called, are fully dense and are generally thick - in excess...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: CPS Awarded Patent for AlSiC Composite.
August 1, 2005... CPS Corp., a producer for metal matrix composites (MMCs), is offering a new composite, AlSiC (Aluminum Silicon Carbide), that can be used as high-performance heat spreaders, packages, and substrates for the flip-chip IC packaging, power...

ADVANCED GLASSESS: Engineered Glass Wins Ohio Grant.
August 1, 2005... Engineered Glass Products and its research partner, the University of Toledo have received the 2005 Third Frontier Wright Project Award. The state of Ohio recently issued nine Third Frontier awards to public and private research centers that...

OPTICAL MATERIALS: Intel, Corning Develop Photomasks.
August 1, 2005... Intel Corp. and Corning Inc. have entered into an agreement to develop ultra low thermal expansion ULE glass photomask substrates required for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. These substrates are needed to develop low defect...

Cree Signs New Agreement With OSRAM Opto.
August 1, 2005... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEEE), has signed a new long-term agreement with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH for the purchase of light emitting diode (LED) chips over a three-year period commencing June 27, 2005, and extending through June 2008. The...

BIOCERAMICS: Bearings for Ortho Joints.
August 1, 2005... Amedica Corp. has announced that it has been granted United States Patent No. 6,881,229 covering its novel metal-on-ceramic bearings for orthopedic articulating joints. Currently under development, Amedicas new advanced bearings covered under...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Corning to Expand Diesel Exhaust Products.
August 1, 2005... Corning Inc. has announced that its board of directors has approved an additional capital expenditure of approximately $100 million for expanded capabilities at its new clean-diesel products manufacturing facility in Erwin, N.Y. This investment...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS: Ceramic Fuel Cell Ltd. Signs Contract.
August 1, 2005... Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (CFCL), Victoria, Australia has signed a contract with German utility EWE for a commercial field trial of two CFCL fuel cell units. This is CFCL's second international contract to provide fuel cell units to energy...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: AVX Supplies Transient Voltage Suppressors.
August 1, 2005... AVX Corp. , a manufacturer of passive components, has produced transient voltage suppressor (TVS) devices based upon a multilayer varistor (MLV) concept and zinc oxide material systems. Designated the MG and V2F series, the new Rad Hard TVS...

Cree Introduces SiC MESFETs.
August 1, 2005... Cree, Inc. announced at the 2005 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium being held in Long Beach, California, that it is shipping sample quantities of its new 10-watt packaged SiC MESFET, the CRF35010, optimized for broadband wireless...

Award to Increase Piezoceramics Demand.
August 1, 2005... EDO Corp. has been awarded a $4 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) for continued production of acoustic modules for the Light Weight Wide Aperture Array sonar system on Virginia-class attack submarines. This latest order...

Kemet Expands Ceramic MLCC Portfolio.
August 1, 2005... Kemet Corp. (NYSE: KEM) has announced the expansion of its High Capacitance MLCC ceramic portfolio with the introduction of the 47 microfarads capacitance value in the 1210 EIA case size at a rated voltage of 6.3V. These miniaturized components...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Receives Cable Orders.
August 1, 2005... American Superconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: AMSC) has announced that it has received an order for 48,760 meters (approximately 30 miles) of high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire from Ultera(TM) to manufacture a 200-meter-long HTS power cable to...

Dutch Develop Nanoscale Transistors.
August 1, 2005... Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft, The Netherlands and Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have developed superconducting transistors based on semiconducting nanometer-scale indium arsenide wires. The devices...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Agreement for Capacitor Distribution.
August 1, 2005... American Technical Ceramics Corp., a manufacturer of high- performance electronic components such as capacitors and thin film circuits for a broad range of commercial and military applications, has announced that it has signed a global...

Honeywell Invests in Albany Nanotech.
August 1, 2005... Honeywell Electronic Materials will invest at least $5 million during the next five years into laboratory equipment and research activities at Albany NanoTech, as well as locate laboratories and researchers at the center to work on...

Rath Performance Fibers Shortens Its Name.
August 1, 2005... Rath Performance Fibers, effective September 1, 2005, has announced it changed its name to Rath Inc. to better reflect the Companys identity in areas of refractories other than ceramic fibers. Rath Incorporated is the wholly owned subsidiary of...

Malvern Opens Offices in China.
August 1, 2005... Malvern Instruments, a leading supplier of analytical solutions for particle characterization and rheological applications, has opened a new head office in Shanghai for all its sales and marketing activities in China. Malvern began direct...

Alcoa to Double Alumina Capacity in Jamaica.
August 1, 2005... Alcoa announced that its board of directors has approved plans for the company's Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) affiliate to join with the Government of Jamaica to expand the Jamalco alumina refinery in Clarendon, Jamaica. The...

Brush Ceramic Products Increases Capacity.
August 1, 2005... Brush Ceramic Products Inc., Tucson, Ariz., a manufacturer of high performance engineered materials for the global electronics market has increased manufacturing capacity at its Arizona facility to keep pace with increasing product demand. The...

Vesuvius Forms Advanced Ceramics Company.
August 1, 2005... In June 2005, the technical ceramics division of Vesuvius McDanel in Beaver Falls, Pa., formed a new company, McDanel Advanced Ceramic Technologies LLC. The new management team, led by Les Crittenden, president, and Chris Rogowski, manager of...

Ceamic Services Supplies Kiln for Refractron.
August 1, 2005... Ceramic Services, Inc. was recently contracted to design, supply and install a new shuttle kiln for Refractron Technologies of Newark, N.Y. The fully automated kiln, which features PC control, is rated for 2400_F and includes a fully...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2005... Sept. 11-16, 2005, 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic & Glass Technology, Maui, Hawaii, Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109, E-mail: customersrvc@acers.org ...

PERSONNEL.
August 1, 2005... 3M Names Interim Chairman, 3M has announced that Robert S. Morrison, retired vice chairman, PepsiCo Inc. and former chairman and CEO of Quaker Oats Co., has been named interim chairman and CEO, effective immediately. Morrison's appointment...

FINANCIAL.
August 1, 2005... Alcoa Achieves the Highest Quarter. Alcoa has announced the highest quarterly income and revenue in the company's history. Second quarter income from continuing operations was $473 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, up from $0.31 in the first...

GRANTS.
August 1, 2005... ALD Nanosolutions Wins SBIR Phase I Grant. ALD NanoSolutions Inc., Boulder, Colo., has announced the award of a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NSF for "Novel Electrode Materials for Multilayer Capacitors."...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials.
August 1, 2005... By Frederick C. Klaessig, Degussa Corp. USA, 2 Turner Place, Piscataway, NJ 08855 The Degussa company's responsible approach to nanotechnology is described in the policies approved by Degussa's Management Board; according to these...

Proprietary Threat.
August 1, 2005... For those firms having existing nano-scaled products, like Degussa, there is a concern that new, naive definitions will undermine existing patents, trade secrets, and TSCA registrations. The same would be true for the customers who have relied...

Reasonable Regulation.
August 1, 2005... It is our firm belief that the current regulatory frameworks in the U.S. and Europe are capable of addressing the development of new nanomaterials, if scientific results are taken into consideration as they arise. Certainly, emerging scientific...

Fundamental Research.
August 1, 2005... It would help the research innovation cycle greatly if the funding agencies involved with the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) were to redirect money from the fundamental research of nanomaterials to the fundamental research for...

Technology Response.
August 1, 2005... Degussa's Aerosil & Silanes business unit has approached the technology response on several levels. As stated above, we are actively engaged in regional and global trade associations with the purpose of reinforcing our understanding of the...

Product Opportunities.
August 1, 2005... In addition to re-packaging our traditional pyrogenic silica products into dispersions, Degussa continues to investigate new materials that offer unique properties. These products are a result of Degussas new business model where we set up...

Conclusion.
August 1, 2005... Companies supplying nanomaterials are quickly impinging on an uncertain regulatory climate as the various agencies become aware of these materials. It is likely that the current regulatory framework will remain, but with modifications...

WHO'S WHO: Promoting Net Shape Solutions in Technical and Advanced Ceramics.
August 1, 2005... HTCN interviewed Dave Bobrek, President and CEO of Blasch Precision Ceramics. Bobrek graduated from Fredonia State University of NY in 1973 and went on get masters degree at Syracuse University in 1975 and PMD from Harvard Business School in...