High Tech Ceramics News articles from June 2003

High Tech Ceramics News archives from June 2003

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Biocompatible Market Slated for Big Growth.
June 1, 2003... The biocompatible materials market is a unique market driven by medical device development coupled with the need to find materials that most replicate human tissue structure. Biocompatible materials must be capable of being used in or on the...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Morgan Expands U.S. Operations.
June 1, 2003... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) recently announced the expansion of operations at its facility located in Hayward, California. In a new initiative to support and strengthen MAC's core strategies, the Hayward facility now houses the Hayward...

AlN Produced at Low Temperature.
June 1, 2003... Japanese company Y.S., Inc., an advanced ceramic manufacturer situated in Seto-shi, Aichi-ken, has developed a low-temperature laboratory-scale firing for practical manufacturing of AlN ceramics at around 1,600(F. This laboratory-scale...

Ceradyne Receives Radome Funding.
June 1, 2003... Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDN) has announced that it has been selected by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control to supply the radomes on the PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability) missile system. This tactical defensive missile system is...

Alumina-Silica Paper, Silica Blankets.
June 1, 2003... Zircar Refractory Composites, Inc. has introduced its new alumina- silica paper. The company's wide range of insulating refractory papers are non-woven, non-asbestos, fiber-based products engineered as thermal barrier materials for use in high-...

Norton Launches Online Guide.
June 1, 2003... Norton has launched a new section guide for diamond dressing tolls. The new interactive Norton EZ Tool online selection guide, located at www.nortonabrasives.com/industrial/eztool, helps grinding wheel users select the right diamond tool for...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS TSI Introduces Particle Analyzer.
June 1, 2003... TSI, Inc. has announced the introduction of its new PSD 3603 particle size distribution analyzer, designed and built to meet the rigorous demands of industrial powder and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The new analyzer is a powerful tool for...

MCC, Ankersmid in Analyzer Deal.
June 1, 2003... Metropolitan Computing Corp. (MCC) and Ankersmid recently announced a partnership to sell and support a line of particle size, shape, and concentration analyzers in North America. The particle size analyzers measure over a range of 0.5 to 3600...

IR Thermometer from Pyrometer Instrument.
June 1, 2003... Pyrometer Instrument Co., Inc. has introduced its Pyrofiber, a non-contact, automatic emissivity correcting infrared (IR) thermometer featuring multiple sensor heads for uniform temperature measurements. The multiple sensor head unit allows...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS SMP Completes DRAPA Program.
June 1, 2003... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP) has announced completion of its DARPA Mesoscopic Integrated Conformal Electronics (MICE) program. This 4-year, $45M DARPA program, in which SMP was a materials supplier, was established to develop advanced...

Nanophase Intros Doped Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials.
June 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: NANX), has announced commercial availability of doped zinc oxide nanomaterials. The zinc oxide dopants include aluminum, copper, and silver at dopant levels ranging from several ppms to several percent....

DuPont Backs Soldier Nanotech.
June 1, 2003... DuPont will be serving as a founding partner of the new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, which has officially opened its 28,000-sq.-ft. research and development facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The U.S....

Nanoscale Materials Available in Quantities.
June 1, 2003... Nanostructured and Amorphous Materials, Inc. have announced that they are capable of supplying a wide variety of nanoscale powders and amorphous alloys with a quantity ranging from grams to tons. The company's nanoscale powder products include...

COATINGS: Multilayers and Sensors Fabricated Using Thermal Spray.
June 1, 2003... Under the auspices of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Mesoscale Integrated Conformal Electronics (MICE) initiative, the Center for Thermal Spray Research at the SUNY-Stony Brook has developed a thermal spray based rapid prototyping...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Carbon-Nanotube CMCs Studied.
June 1, 2003... Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites have been touted to possess superb mechanical properties due to the unique structure and properties of carbon nanotubes, but no such materials have been fabricated or reliably tested to date....

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning Asahi to Sell Glass Manufacturing.
June 1, 2003... Corning, Inc. announced that Corning Asahi Video Products Co. (CAV) has reached an agreement to sell certain manufacturing assets from the company's facility in State College, Pennsylvania, to the Henan Anyang CPT Glass Bulb Group, Xinyi...

CARBON NANOTUBES: ANI Demonstrates Gated Electron Source.
June 1, 2003... SI Diamond Technology, Austin, Texas, has announced that its subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) has demonstrated an electron emission current density of at least 15 Amps/cm2 using a gated carbon nanotube electron source. These high-current...

BIOCERAMICS: Novel Bioactive and Resorbable Composites.
June 1, 2003... The design of composite materials offers an exceptional opportunity for the development of bioresorbable and bioactive scaffolds for tissue engineering. European researchers A.R. Boccaccini (University of London-Imperial College, U.K.) and V....

Pore Structure of Bioceramics Characterized.
June 1, 2003... Research on bioceramics is getting increased attention because of the importance of tissue regeneration, tissue replacement, and other biomedical applications in our modern society. Bio- compatible ceramic materials have many advantages over...

FUEL CELLS: Nextech Offers SOFC Materials.
June 1, 2003... Nextech Materials, Ltd. and its subsidiary, Fuel Cell Materials, are offering nanoscale zirconia-based electrolytes, which have advantages over traditional yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ). YSZ is the most popular electrolyte material for...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Euroquartz Crystals Can Take Stress.
June 1, 2003... Euroquartz claims that its MJ series of surface mount crystals can withstand reflow temperatures up to 260C for 10s maximum (twice) or 230C for 180s (once). Housed in a 5-by-3.2-by-1-mm footprint package, these crystals are suitable for use in...

Cree Microwave Intros New Devices.
June 1, 2003... Cree Microwave, Inc., a subsidiary of Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has announced that its second- generation 48 V silicon carbide (SiC) MESFET process has been released to production. The initial product based on this new process is the CRF-24010,...

Navy Antenna Contract to EDO.
June 1, 2003... EDO Corp. (NYSE: EDO) has received an initial $3.6 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to manufacture radar antenna equipment. The antennas will be used on the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class guided-missile...

Cree's Got Wide Bandgap MMIC.
June 1, 2003... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has announced that it plans to offer silicon carbide (SiC) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) foundry service to U.S. customers based on its second- generation, 3-inch SiC MESFET production process. Initial...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Delivers Wire, Gets Cable Project.
June 1, 2003... American Superconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: AMSC), a leading electricity solutions company, has announced its first delivery of second-generation (2G), high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. The 2G wire was shipped to Ultera, a joint venture...

World's First 2G HTS Cable Conductor.
June 1, 2003... The Oak Ridge-Ultera 2G HTS cable conductor is expected to be the first in the world to achieve a commercial performance level (i.e., an alternating current level greater than 2,000 amps). The team plans to fabricate the cable conductor by...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Cabot Acquires Superior Micropowders.
June 1, 2003... Cabot Corp. announced that it has purchased the assets of Superior MicroPowders, LLC, a privately held company located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purchase price for the acquisition was approximately $16 million. Cabot believes that a...

Dow Corning, Wacker-Chemie in Asian Joint Venture.
June 1, 2003... Dow Corning Corp. and Wacker-Chemie GmbH plan to form a joint venture in Asia to make silicone intermediates and fumed silica used in products for industrial and consumer applications. Under the plan, each company would independently operate...

Ferro to Divest Specialty Ceramics.
June 1, 2003... Ferro Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Specialty Ceramics business to CerCo, LLC, an investment group. The divestiture follows a recent announcement Ferro made regarding its intention to divest several small non-core...

Ceradyne to Sell 1.5 Million Shares.
June 1, 2003... Ceradyne, Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 1.5 million shares of common stock. The company said it plans to use the proceeds from the offering for debt repayment, production expansion, purchasing machinery and...

CALENDAR.
June 1, 2003... July 20-26, 20003. Tenth International Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering, New Orleans, LA. Contact: David Hui, University of New Orleans, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, New Orleans, LA 70148; Tel: 504/280-6652, Fax: 504/280-6192;...