High Tech Ceramics News articles from June 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from June 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Manufacturers Report Abrasives Production.
June 1, 2001... The latest U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Industry Surveys offer data on the production of manufactured abrasives for the first quarter of 2001. Ceramic abrasives included in this report include fused aluminum oxide and silicon carbide....

Review Details NDT Technologies.
June 1, 2001... According to Nondestructive Testing Industry Review, a soon-to-be- released publication from Business Communications Co., Inc., the U.S. nondestructive testing (NDT) equipment market is estimated at $827 million. This market is projected to...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES: Technology Streamlines Aircraft Inspection.
June 1, 2001... Scientists and engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), have identified an efficient, cost-effective means for improving one of the...

Technology May Transform Ceramics.
June 1, 2001... UniStates Technology Corporation has a new way to manufacture everything from autos to human replacement parts using existing factories resulting in lower energy costs and cheaper products. The manufacturing system is the third in a suite of...

Ceramic Armors In Army Vehicle.
June 1, 2001... The U.S. Army has initiated fitting its new infantry carrier vehicle with ceramic armors. The eight-wheeled armored vehicle handles well and is considered perfect for combat in cities. If all goes well with the system, the Army hopes to buy...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Force Field Tests Ceramics.
June 1, 2001... Floating in mid-air with no visible means of support or containment is a molten glob of glowing metal. It's not science fiction; it's the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. The ESL...

Quantachrome Intros Water Analyzer.
June 1, 2001... Water sorption measurement has traditionally been slow, laborious, costly, and limited to extremely small quantities of material. Quantachrome Instruments has introduced its newest innovation in porous materials characterization, the Hydrosorb...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: SMP Gets Phosphor Formulations Patent.
June 1, 2001... Superior MicroPowders, LLC has recently been issued a broad-based patent (U.S. Patent 6,197,218) related to phosphor paste formulations and lighting devices. Entitled "Photoluminescent phosphor powders, methods for making phosphor powders and...

Transition Aluminas From Sol Flocculation.
June 1, 2001... Venezuela's Universidad Metropolitana researchers Rosa Mara Rodrguez (Chemical Engineering Department) and Delia Guitierrez- Campos, Anna Rita di Giampaolo and Rosangel Rosas (Material Science Department) have produced activated aluminas from...

COATINGS: Thermal Sprayed Al2O3-TiO2 Coatings.
June 1, 2001... University of Connecticut researchers H. Luo, D. Goberman, Y. Sohn, and L.L. Shaw have investigated the microstructure and mechanical properties of thermal sprayed Al2O3 13 Wt.% TiO2 coatings from reconstituted nanocrystalline powder. The...

Processing Microstructure Property Relationships.
June 1, 2001... State University of New York at Stonybrook researchers H. Herman, S. Sampath, A. Vaidya, and A. Kulkarni, have used a high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) combustion spraying process to deposit certain ceramic oxides. The HVOF process operates in the...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Nichia, Saffil to Collaborate.
June 1, 2001... Japan's Nichias and Saffil, an alumina fiber manufacturing company based in Manchester, U.K., have agreed to collaborate on sales and technical services of catalytic converter carriers made of alumina fibers and equipped with autombile exhaust...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Asahi Technoglass to Expand.
June 1, 2001... Asahi Technoglass Co., Ltd., a special glass producing company and one of the strategic business units of the Japan's largest sheet glass manufacturer, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., has announced an expansion of production capacity in sensitivity...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS Grinding Wheel from Norton.
June 1, 2001... A new line of diamond wheels for roughing and finishing polycrystalline diamond and cubic boron carbide cutting tools has been developed by Norton Co. New Norton VRF bonded diamond wheels eliminate the need to use a two-wheel roughing and...

STRUCTURAL CARBON: Adhesive Intros from Aremco.
June 1, 2001... Aremco Products, Inc. has introduced Graphi-Bond(TM) 551-R, a single part, graphite and ceramic filled, high temperature adhesive system. The product can be used to bond carbon-carbon and graphite components and structures used in oxidizing and...

CATALYSTS AND CATALYST SUPPORTS Altair/MIT Fuel Cell Program.
June 1, 2001... Altair International Inc. (NASDAQ:ALTI) has announced that its subsidiary Altair Technologies, Inc. has completed its second quarterly review of work performed under a sponsored research agreement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

BIOCERAMICS: Calcium Phosphate Bone Substitute.
June 1, 2001... An Israeli company has developed a new calcium phosphate bioapatite that has physiochemical features similar to natural bone mineral. It will be used for synthetic implants to bridge massive bone defects. A new procedure, using microwave...

Dentsply and Degusa Enter Agreement.
June 1, 2001... DENTSPLY International Inc. and Degussa Dental, a unit of Degussa AG, recently announced the signing of a definitive agreement to combine the two companies through a cash acquisition by DENTSPLY valued at euros 576 million (approximately U.S....

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Porvair Licenses ORNL Technology.
June 1, 2001... Porvair Fuel Cell Technology (PFCT), an advanced materials company, has licensed a new technology developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The license relates to a patent-protected porous carbon composite,...

NGK Invests in Filter Production.
June 1, 2001... NGK Insulators, Ltd. is investing in a commercial production facility for the ceramic diesel particulate filter (DPF). This DPF is used in equipment for removal of diesel particulate matter in exhaust gas. Diesel emission regulations will...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS IBM Boosts Chip Speeds.
June 1, 2001... International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. has announced a breakthrough in semiconductor technology that can boost chip speeds by as much as 35% while reducing power requirements. IBM, the world's largest computer maker, says it has...

Ramtron Expands Product Line.
June 1, 2001... Ramtron International Corporation (RMTR), a leading developer of specialty semiconductor memory products, has announced the introduction and availability of FM24CL64, the second in a new line of unlimited endurance, 3-volt operation...

Sumitomo Technology Goes to Samsung.
June 1, 2001... Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. (SMM), Ltd. transferred a manufacturing technology of indium tin oxide (ITO) targeting materials that will be used as an electrodes for liquid crystal display (LCD) to Korean liquid crystal parts manufacturer, Samsung...

Vishay Releases MLCCs, Optical Sensors.
June 1, 2001... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has announced the release of new multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs). The new Vishay Vitramon VJ0612 MLCCs, which typically feature half the inductance level seen in standard capacitors, will be used for...

Kyocera Introduces "Quick 50" Program.
June 1, 2001... Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation, Electro-Optics Division, has introduced its "Quick 50" program for Opto-electronic Thin Film Submounts used in fiber optic photodiode receivers and low- power lasers. Kyocera developed the "Quick...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Cheney Task Force Makes Recommendation.
June 1, 2001... The National Energy Policy Development Group, chaired by Vice President Dick Cheney, has strongly endorsed high-temperature superconductivity, recommending in its final report that the "President direct the Secretary of Energy to expand the...

Government R&D Funding Held Steady.
June 1, 2001... The Bush administration released its detailed budget proposal last month for fiscal year (FY) 2002, which begins on 1 October 2001. Requested funding for superconductivity research and development was held steady at the FY 2001 level of $37...

ORNL Dedicates New Labs.
June 1, 2001... A new high-temperature superconductor research laboratory was dedicated last month at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL). It is part of the Accelerated Coated Conductor Initiative, a collaborative effort between...

IGC-SuperPower Licensed by LANL.
June 1, 2001... Intermagnetics General Corporation has recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, IGC-SuperPower, has signed agreements with Los Alamos National Laboratory granting it worldwide exclusive licenses to patents and applications related...

SCCI Introduces MgB2 Products.
June 1, 2001... Superconductive Components Inc. (Nasdaq: SCCI), Inc. has announced the introduction of two magnesium diboride (MgB2) products. MgB2 was recently discovered to be a superconductor (see HTCN, March 2001) and is expected to be used in a number of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Corning, Alcatel Cross License.
June 1, 2001... Corning Inc., a leading supplier of photonic components and optical fiber, and Alcatel (CGEP.PA and NYSE:ALA), a world leader in intelligent optical networking, announced the signing of a cross-licensing agreement for photonic components and...

Kyocera Sees Profit Surge.
June 1, 2001... Leading manufacturer of Ceramic ICs and other high-tech components, Kyocera Corp. has announced sharp increases in both group sales and pretax profit for fiscal 2000 but predicted declines in both sales and profits for the current fiscal year,...

Record Quarter for SCCI.
June 1, 2001... Superconductive Components, Inc. (NASDQ: SCCI), has announced record net income of $118,650 for first quarter 2001 versus a net loss of $49,233 for the same period last year. Net income per diluted share applicable to common stock was $0.06...

MEETINGS: BCC Conference on Nanoparticles.
June 1, 2001... The fourth annual Business Communications Co. (BCC) nanoparticles conference "Fine, Ultrafine and Nano Powders 2001" will be held October 14-17, 2001 at the Holiday Inn, City Centre in downtown Chicago, Illinois. This conference brings together...

CALENDAR.
June 1, 2001... July 21-26, 2001, Fourth International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, Denver, CO. Contact: MRS; Tel: 724/779-3003, Fax: 724/779-8313; Email: info@mrs.org. November 4-8, 2001, International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and...