High Tech Ceramics News articles from February 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from February 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Manufacturers Report Abrasives Production.
February 1, 2001... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects quarterly data on the production of manufactured abrasives, which is published through its Mineral Industry Surveys. The latest survey shows the production for the third quarter of 2000. Ceramic...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Morgan Introduces Machinable Glasses.
February 1, 2001... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a world-leading supplier of innovative ceramic solutions for medical, telecommunications, semiconductor, and aerospace markets, is offering its alumina ceramic for pneumatic and water valves. Ideal for the...

Alborex Intros X-ray Components.
February 1, 2001... Alborex has introduced ceramic-to-metal x-ray components. Designed to provide superior reliability and durability, these components feature Alborex's innovative ceramic-to-metal seal-assembly technology. Using its application-engineering...

Aremco Introduces Machinable Ceramics.
February 1, 2001... Aremco has introduced Aremcolox 502-1550, a new zirconia phosphate-based machinable ceramic. The material is used for producing specialized brazing fixtures, induction liners, wafer chucks, optical stands, and combustion nozzles for...

Cotronics Bonds with Ceramics.
February 1, 2001... Cotronics Corp. has introduced Resbond 940LE, 2500F, a fast-set, low-expansion adhesive without any objectionable odors. The new material cures in 5 min. at 175F, or in 4-8 hr. at room temperature. Resbond 940LE has excellent adhesion to...

Feedthroughs for CERN Collider.
February 1, 2001... Ceramaseal has received about $1 million in orders for custom- designed feedthroughs, which will be used within CERN's (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The CERN laboratory is located just west of Geneva,...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS SMP Awarded Phosphor Patents.
February 1, 2001... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP), an enabling materials technology company, has issued a U.S. Patent pertaining to advanced luminescent materials. U.S. Patent 6,153,123, entitled "Sulfur- containing phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor...

Nanophase Supply Agreement Extended.
February 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: NANX), a leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced that the company and a customer have broadened their relationship. An existing agreement to supply nanomaterials for a specific...

Superconductive Components Receives SBIR Grant.
February 1, 2001... Superconductive Components, Inc. has announced the receipt of a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this grant is to develop a novel method for making...

COATINGS: Corr-Paint Protects Refractories.
February 1, 2001... Corr-Paint CP4000, from Aremco Products, is a single-part, water- dispersible, ceramic silicone-based coating that offers exceptional thermal, moisture, and salt-spray resistance. This coating is pigmented black and is stable in operating...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Argonide Launches Nano-Alumina Fibers.
February 1, 2001... The Argonide Nanotechnology group has launched the first of a new family of products - an alumina fiber with a diameter of 2 nm and a remarkably high surface area. 500-600 m2/g. These fibers have an aspect ratio (AR) ranging from 20 to 100....

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: DuPont, Air Products in CMP Venture.
February 1, 2001... DuPont and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. announced that they have formed a joint venture to develop, manufacture, and market colloidal silica-based slurries for electronic precision-polishing or planarization applications - such as silicon...

Embedded Transducer Monitors Structure.
February 1, 2001... The issue of integrating ultrasonic sensing devices within a host material is attracting increasing interest within the structural monitoring community. In this contest, it is important that the sensing or actuation device does not detract from...

Valley Design Offers AlN Substrates.
February 1, 2001... Valley Design Corp. has commenced supplying aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates to meet a wide variety of applications. AlN substrates are readily available in sizes as large as 4.5-in. square or round, and in thicknesses ranging from 0.003 in....

CTS Corp. Debuts New Products.
February 1, 2001... CTS Corp. announced two new products: a new 5-mm by 7-mm TCXO for the fast-growing China market; and the first high-performance low voltage differential (LVD) SCSI terminator for active termination, which is in a ball-grid array (BGA) package....

Vishay Expands Its Line.
February 1, 2001... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE:VSH), has announced the release of new surface-mount thick film chip attenuators, a new metallized polyester film capacitor, and new positive-temperature coefficient thermistors. The new Vishay Dale CZA...

Record in LED Efficiency.
February 1, 2001... Cree Lighting Co., a wholly- owned subsidiary of Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ:CREE), has announced that it has demonstrated a near- UV/violet InGaN light-emitting diode (LED) with a 32% quantum efficiency. This is the highest known external quantum...

Air Force Contract Goes to EDO.
February 1, 2001... EDO Corp. announced that it has been awarded a $4.9 million contract from the United States Air Force for 70 Field Test Simulator (FTS) test sets to be delivered in the next 15 months, including options for up to 890 units through 2005. ...

SUPERCONDUCTORS ISCO, KMW Develop CRFE.
February 1, 2001... Illinois Superconductor Corp. (ISCO), a leading supplier of interference management solutions for the wireless telecommunications industry, and KMW, Inc. of Korea, Korea's leading supplier of front-end components and subsystems to the wireless...

Advanced Filters for PCS, 3G.
February 1, 2001... Conductus, Inc. introduced its new ClearSite 2100 systems and advanced new filters for 3G and PCS applications. These systems and filters are designed for high volume availability to meet carriers' needs as they deploy advanced 2.5G and 3G...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Kyocera Completes Tycom Acquisition.
February 1, 2001... Kyocera Intl., Inc. (KII) has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of privately-held Tycom Corp. Tycom is a premium producer of carbide cutting tools for the printed circuit board (PCB) industry. Tycom claims to have the...

Starck Acquires Technical Ceramics.
February 1, 2001... H.C. Starck GmbH & Co., KG, has acquired a majority holding in TeCe Technical Ceramics GmbH & Co., KG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Shell GmbH. Founded in 1989, TeCe manufactures components from engineered ceramics. "Intermediates for engineering...

CoorsTek Expands in Optoelectroncis.
February 1, 2001... CoorsTek, Inc. is expanding capacity at its Grand Junction, Colorado, facility to accommodate growing demand for ceramic ferrules, which are critical components of fiber optic connectors and cables. Additionally, the company is broadening its...

Brush Creates Zentrix Technologies.
February 1, 2001... A new company has been created for the former Electronic Products Division of Brush Wellman, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials, Inc. The new company, Zentrix Technologies Inc., now itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of...

Scientist Gives Gift to Penn State.
February 1, 2001... Penn State University's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences will benefit from a $500,000 gift from Alumni Dorothy Pate Enright of Houston, Texas. Enright, who has a distinguished career in ceramic science, received her master's degree in...

Companies Report Quarterly Earnings.
February 1, 2001... Here are summaries of some financial statements filed in the past month: Intermagnetics General Corp. reached another record high in quarterly revenues, with second-quarter net income more than doubled to $3.1 million ($0.19 per diluted...

CALENDAR.
February 1, 2001... April 21-26, 2001, Society of Vacuum Coaters 44th Annual Technical Conference, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. Contact: Vivienne Harwood Mattox, Society of Vacuum Coaters, 71 Pinon Hill Pl. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87122-1914; Tel:...