High Tech Ceramics News articles from January 2006

High Tech Ceramics News archives from January 2006

A LOOKING BACK AT 2005 Bioceramics, Armor Boost Structural Ceramics Market.
January 1, 2006... After two decades of hype and low realization, the year 2005 saw the structural ceramics market getting a foothold within the advanced ceramics market. The year 2005 has provided a new direction to the large-scale commercialization of advanced...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Binks Introduces Line of Pressure Cups.
January 1, 2006... Binks, part of Illinois Tool Works, is in the finishing area of business. These include curing paint and powder coatings where they use ceramics among other materials in the finishing. The company has introduced a new design for its line of...

Nanoparticle Refractories for Glass Furnaces.
January 1, 2006... Magneco/Metrel, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of refractory technology, has announced an innovative system for glass furnace construction featuring three of the company's advanced Metpump cement-free nanoparticulate refractory...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS Ceradyne Wins Order from U.S. Marines.
January 1, 2006... Ceradyne, Inc. received a $9.3 million order for its lightweight ceramic body armor system for use by the U.S. Marine Corps. Shipments are expected to commence in January 2006 and be completed in the second quarter 2006. Joel Moskowitz,...

General Dynamics Unit Gets Armor Contract.
January 1, 2006... General Dynamics Armament & Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics, received a $19-million contract modification from the U.S. Army for the production of enhanced-capability reactive armor tile sets for the Bradley Fighting...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Developers Focus on Nanoscale Electronics.
January 1, 2006... NanoDynamics Inc., a leading manufacturer of nanomaterials, announced it would commercialize nanowire fabrication technologies developed by its New Zealand-based partner, Nano Cluster Devices Ltd., to make possible a new generation of nanoscale...

Altair Issued Patent for Mixed Oxide.
January 1, 2006... The Patent and Trademark Office issued Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. U.S. Patent 6,974,566 titled Method For Producing Mixed Metal Oxides and Metal Oxide Compounds. The patent describes the process and underlying technology for the...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS DiaCom PCDs are Shaped With Ease.
January 1, 2006... Australian based Ringwood Diamond Material Technologies says, its large cylindrical PCD material is electrically conductive so it can be easily cut into more complex three-dimensional shapes using conventional electrical discharge machining...

ADVANCED GLASSESS Owens Corning to Acquire Glass Composites Business.
January 1, 2006... Owens Corning (Toledo, Ohio) has reached an agreement with Japan-based Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. to acquire its composites business, including a glass manufacturing facility located near Tokyo. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition underscores...

Coating Protects Optical Fibers.
January 1, 2006... Conventional manufacturing processes produce optical fibers that are prone to stress corrosion fracture and are permeable to water vapor. This limits their effective lifetime. yet2.com is marketing a protective coating that protects optical...

BIOCERAMICS NYU Researchers Develops BCP Bioceramics.
January 1, 2006... Biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) bioceramics consist of intimate mixtures of calcium hydroxyapatite (HA) and beta-tricalcium phosphate (b-TCP) in varying HA/b-RCP ratios. New York University researchers have obtained BCP upon sintering calcium...

Ceramic Feed Thrus For Neurostimulation.
January 1, 2006... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a manufacturer of innovative ceramic, glass, metal and engineered coating solutions, offers custom-designed ceramic feed-thrus for implantable neurostimulation devices. Manufactured by Morgan Advanced Ceramics'...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Intel Chip Technology Uses New Materials.
January 1, 2006... Intel Corp. announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade. The...

Murata Advances EMI Suppresser Filters.
January 1, 2006... Murata Electronics North America, Smyrna, Ga., a world-leading innovator in electronics and the largest global supplier of ceramic passive components, has unveiled a slimmer and more sophisticated surface mount EMI suppression filter. The new...

An Bright LED That Gives A Warmer White.
January 1, 2006... Lamina Ceramics Inc (Westhampton, NJ) announced the launch of a new super bright, high power LED light engine featuring a warm, eye-pleasing light quality similar to popular halogen and tungsten incandescent lamps. The BL-4000 Warm White with...

SUPERCONDUCTORS AMSC, GE Energy Control Wind Farm Voltages.
January 1, 2006... American Superconductor Corp, an electricity solutions company, and GE Energy, a business of the General Electric Co., received an order for two D-VAR systems for the Wild Horse Wind Farm project located near Puget Sound in Washington. This...

INDUSTRY NEWS R&H Breaks Ground For CMP Asia Pacific Center.
January 1, 2006... Ceramic nanopowders are used in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, CMP Technologies, a leader and innovator in CMP technology for the global semiconductor industry, broke ground for its Asia Pacific...

Nanopowder Venture Launched in China.
January 1, 2006... China's Refractories reports that Shanxi Taihe Science and Technology Holding Co. has signed a contract with Triglobal Capital Management Corp, a Canadian investment firm, to jointly launch a nanopowder project in terms of technology, capital...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... March 12-16, 2006 TMS 135th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: TMS, 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086-7514, Tel: 724/776-9000. May 16-19, 2006 Ceramitec 2006, 10th Intl....

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT Quantum Dots Could Be the Light Bulb's Successor.
January 1, 2006... By David F. Salisbury, Editor-in-Chief, Exploration, Vanderbilt University Take an LED that produces intense, blue light. Coat it with a thin layer of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the...

Worth the Price.
January 1, 2006... Although they are considerably more expensive than ordinary lights, they are capable of producing about twice as much light per watt as incandescent bulbs; they last up to 50,000 hours or 50 times as long as a 60-watt bulb; and, they are very...

Accidental Discovery.
January 1, 2006... Bowers works in the laboratory of Associate professor of Chemistry Sandra Rosenthal. The accidental discovery was the result of the request of one of his coworkers, post-doctoral student and electron microscopist James McBride, who is...

'Magic' Coating.
January 1, 2006... Another student in the lab got the idea of using polyurethane wood finish for thin film research while working on his parent's summer cabin. He had even brought some Minwax into the lab. That gave Bowers the idea of mixing the magic-sized...

Fast Processing.
January 1, 2006... One difference between the Vanderbilt approach and the others is the process they used to make the quantum dots, Bowers observes. They use synthesis methods that take between a week and a month to complete; whereas, the Vanderbilt method takes...

WHO'S WHO Ashok Khandkar: Promoting Bioceramics.
January 1, 2006... Ashok Khandkar is the founder and CEO of Amedica Corp.. He has more than two decades of experience in senior managerial positions in ceramics development and manufacturing with responsibility for technology, finance, and strategic business...

(((BRIEFS))).
January 1, 2006... Alcoa Recognized a Top Green Company. Alcoa has been named one of the Top Green Companies in the world by "BusinessWeek" magazine and the Climate Group in recognition of its performance in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Alcoa has been...

PERSONNEL.
January 1, 2006... Dow Corning CEO Burns to Become Chairman. Dow Corning Corp., announced that Chairman Gary E. Anderson will retire at year-end and be replaced by President and Chief Executive Stephanie A. Burns. Anderson announced his retirement at the...

FINANCIAL.
January 1, 2006... Altair Nano's Revenue Up. Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a supplier of advanced ceramic nanomaterial technology, has reported financial results for its third quarter and the nine-month period ended September 30, 2005. Altair reported revenue of...