High Tech Ceramics News articles from June 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from June 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Capacitors Plunge Superconductors Gain.
June 1, 2000... Shares in Kemet (KEM), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), AVX Corp. (AVX) and American Technical Ceramics (AMK) plunged 16% down to as much as 38% last month. The investors were worried that the three major producers, Kemet, Vishay, and AVX are...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Production Center for Reflexive Technology.
June 1, 2000... UniStates Technology Corp. and the Tufts University college of engineering announced plans to install a development facility for reflexive materials technology (RMT) in the engineering laboratories on the Tufts campus in Medford,...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Horiba Introduces Particle Size Analyzer.
June 1, 2000... Horiba Instruments, Inc. has announced the introduction of the Camsizer, manufactured by Retsch, to the U.S. market. The Camsizer uses digital image processing to measure the particle size of free flowing powders in the range of 30 (m to 30...

Highly Accurate Pressure Film.
June 1, 2000... Sensor Products, Inc. has introduced Super Pressurex, a tactile force indicating sensor film that is now 50% more accurate. This sensor is useful in assessing compression magnitude and distribution between any two mating or impacting surfaces...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Altair and Nanopowder Sign Agreement.
June 1, 2000... Altair International, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. (NEI). The two companies will pool efforts in manufacturing, testing, and marketing of spray grade nanostructured...

COATINGS: Combo Chem for Pulsed Laser Deposition.
June 1, 2000... The recent workshop on combinatorial chemistry sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was held on May 31-June 1, 2000 (Gaithersburg, MD). At this workshop, H.M Christen of Neocera, Inc. (Beltsville, MD)...

Water Dispersible Coatings Debut.
June 1, 2000... Aremco has introduced Corr-Paint CP4060, a single part, red pigmented, silicone based, water dispersible coating system for protecting large aluminum and steel structures used in demanding industrial applications to 110F. The coating...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Pred Materials Offers Nitivity Fiber.
June 1, 2000... New York city based Pred Materials is marketing Nitivity's continuous alumina fiber. It was developed under a cooperative agreement between Japan's Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. and Nitivity Co., Ltd. The polycrystalline fiber contains 70% Al2O3 and...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Characterizing Pore Structure of Membranes.
June 1, 2000... Pore characteristics of modern ceramic membranes are controlled by the composite nature of their structure. Akshaya Jena and Krishna Gupta and Porous Materials, Inc. have developed a new technique that may be used to characterize such...

Proton Conducting Ceramic Membranes.
June 1, 2000... Proton conducting membranes are key materials for the use in electrochemical devices, such as batteries, fuel cells, electrochemical reactors, and sensors. As there are no suitable proton conducting material in the temperature range between...

CATALYSTS: Catalyst Formulation Reduces NOx.
June 1, 2000... KleenAir Systems, Inc. (Dana Point, CA) has signed an exclusive agreement with Catalytic Solutions, Inc. (Oxnard, CA) for a ceramic catalytic formulation for a new NOx-reducing catalytic converter. The new converter utilizes a jointly...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Heraeus Introduces KQ125 Dielectric.
June 1, 2000... Heraeus, Inc., Cermalloy Division, has introduced KQ125, a dry processing microwave dielectric with excellent performance properties. KQ125 produces small vias and precise geometries with simpler processing requirements than other products....

ATMI Delivers Low-k Materials Management.
June 1, 2000... ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI), has developed and made available the semiconductor industry's first comprehensive Low-k materials management solution. This comprehensive solution includes organosilane chemical vapor deposition (CVD) low-k chemicals,...

Four-in-One Transducer for Handheld Devices.
June 1, 2000... Active Control eXperts, Inc. (ACX) has announced the availability of the OmniCom multifunction transducer, which uniquely provides vibration, tone alert, and hands-free loudspeaker functions in a single component--allowing manufacturers of...

Navu Award to EDO.
June 1, 2000... EDO Corp. announced that it has been awarded a $1 million contract by the Navy for initial production of hydrophone stave assemblies used in the wide aperture array (WAA). The WAA is the main hull-mounted passive sonar used to localize targets...

World Record for SiC Power Rectifier.
June 1, 2000... Cree, Inc. and Kansai Electric Power Co. (Osaka, Japan) have successfully demonstrated the world's first greater than 12 kV high efficiency silicon carbide (SiC) rectifier for use in electric power switching. Cree is under a three-year...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: New Facility for HTS Wire.
June 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. has selected a new facility dedicated solely to the manufacturing of high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. The new, green- field plant is expected to produce 10,000 km of HTS wire in its first year. The...

STI Claims 79% Market Share.
June 1, 2000... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI), a leading developer and manufacturer of superconducting products for wireless communications and wireless Internet access, has announced that new products for high-speed wireless data and wireless...

Conductus Delivers Advanced Filter.
June 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDTS), a leading manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, has delivered a state-of-the-art superconductor-enhanced, multichannel, wireless receiver front end to Communication Solutions, Inc. of Baltimore,...

Intermagnetics, DOE Sign Contract.
June 1, 2000... Intermagnetics General Corp. and the Dept. of Energy have signed a contract for the first phase of a 3 year $4.5 million project to commercialize the manufacturing process for second-generation high-temperature superconductors (HTS). The...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Advanced Cerametrics Receives DOD Grants.
June 1, 2000... Advanced Cerametrics, Inc. of Lambertville, NJ (ACI) announced the receipt of several R & D grants from the Dept. of Defense totaling more than $1.5 million. The awards were granted to expand on the work ACI has performed in the area of its...

ART Expands Facilities in Massachusetts.
June 1, 2000... Advanced Refractory Technologies (ART), Inc. has announced the broad expansion of facilities and personnel at its Tech-Ceram subsidiary (Amesbury, MA). To meet the burgeoning demand for radio frequency (RF) power packages in the wireless...

Imerysis to Acquire Treibacher Schleifmittel.
June 1, 2000... The French company Imerys has concluded an agreement for the acquisition of 87.5% of the share capital of Treibacher Schleifmittel. With net sales close to EURO 200 million in 1999, Treibacher is the world's leading producer of white and brown...

sp3 Acquires CML Facilities.
June 1, 2000... Among the various diamond coated tool manufacturers, sp3, Inc. has been providing diamond coating service and marketing diamond-coated tools. sp3 has now acquired the diamond manufacturing facilities of Crystalline Manufacturing, Ltd. (CML) of...

New MEMS Facility Opens in Boulder.
June 1, 2000... NIST has opened a world-class micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) facility (Boulder, CO) laboratory. MEMS research is performed in a microfabrication cleanroom where mechanical and electronic components are integrated. Similar facilities...

Ceradyne Revenues Gain in Quarter.
June 1, 2000... Ceradyne, the Costa Mesa, California-based developer of advanced technical ceramics products (CRDN) reported first quarter earnings of $1.2 million, or 14 cents a share, up significantly from earnings of $48,000, or 1 cent a share, a year...

Revenues Down at Conductus.
June 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDTS), a leading manufacturer of high-performance superconducting wireless systems, has announced revenues of $339,000 for the first quarter ending March 31, 2000, compared to revenues of $1,314,000 in the comparable...

Army to Support Materials Program.
June 1, 2000... The Army Material Command Acquisition Center (AMCAC) is issuing on behalf of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) weapons and materials research directorate (WMRD) a program announcement for a materials program. The three technological areas...

MEETING REPORT: NIST's Conference on Combo Chem.
June 1, 2000... The recent workshop on combinatorial chemistry sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was held on May 31-June 1, 2000 (Gaithersburg, MD). The workshop was well attended by over 150 registrants who came...

MEETINGS: INTERTECH 2000 Covers Abrasives.
June 1, 2000... The Industrial Diamond Assoc. has scheduled INTERTECH 2000 July 17-22 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A global conference with over 25 countries represented, INTERTECH is reportedly the largest, most comprehensive conference ever held...

RECENT ABSTRACT: Dynamic Behavior of Brittle Materials.
June 1, 2000... Brown University researcher L.B. Freund studied the dynamic behavior of brittle materials. The goal of the program was to characterize and quantify physical processes involved in failure of brittle materials under impact loading conditions,...

CALENDAR.
June 1, 2000... July 10-14, 2000, Fuel Cell 2000 and Fourth European SOFC Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland. Contact: European Fuel Cell Forum, PO Box 99, CH-5452, Oberrohrdorf, Switzerland; Tel: +41 56 496-7292, Fax: +41 56 496-4412, Email: ubossel@dial.eunet.ch....