High Tech Ceramics News articles from March 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from March 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Superconductors Stocks Surge.
March 1, 2000... Shares of all superconductor companies surged in the last three months. Since the beginning of this year, the stocks went up as much as 1,075% for Conductus, 3,300% for Illinois Superconductors, and 1,657% for Superconductor Technologies (see...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES : Hot Isostatic Press Simplifies Production.
March 1, 2000... Flow Pressure Systems (Vasteras, Sweden) has recently delivered a large, hot isostatic press (HIP) that reduces cycle time and eliminates a separate solution-heat-treating operation. The equipment is installed at the Bodycote Metal Technology...

Double Gyroid Twists Nanoporous Structure.
March 1, 2000... An MIT researcher (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139; Tel: 617/253-6901, Fax: 617/258-7874) has brought a theoretical structure to life that has potential as a self- assembling,...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS : Pressure Point Sensor Film.
March 1, 2000... Sensor Products, Inc. (East Hanover, NJ) has introduced Pressurex Pressure Points, tactile-force indicating films. Pressure Points represent a new cost- effective and convenient method of utilizing Pressurex sensor film. Pressurex is a useful...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS : Nanophase Gains Patent Protection.
March 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp., a leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, announced that the Australian Patent Office has granted its patent covering surface modification of nanocrystalline materials using siloxane star- graft...

COATINGS: Thin Film Coatings Commercialized.
March 1, 2000... While studying for his phD in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech, Andrew Hunt developed a new process for applying thin film coatings. His technology allows thin films to be applied in the open air, which dramatically reduces...

Abrasion-Resistant Coatings Intro'd.
March 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp., a leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced its first order for abrasion-resistant coatings for a major commercial application as a result of a successful developmental effort during 1999....

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES : Ceramics Sharpen Spacecraft Edges.
March 1, 2000... New high-temperature ceramics developed at NASA's Ames Research Center promise to make spacecraft like the space shuttle look more like supersonic jets, and with much better performance when traveling through the atmosphere. The space...

Infrared Burners for Paper Industry.
March 1, 2000... McDermott Technology, Inc. (MTI), under contract with the Department of Energy (DOE), is developing chopped (discontinuous) rare-earth garnet fibers for a variety of applications. The key near-term need for these fibers is for use as the...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Technique Produces Diamond Crystals.
March 1, 2000... A new way of making artificial diamond, reported in Nature, may take the pressure off the synthetic-diamond industry. In the 1960s, scientists in the U.S. and the Soviet Union developed a second technique for making diamond: condensing diamond...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Ceramic Film Allows Separation, Support.
March 1, 2000... Shinji Kondoh and fellow scientists at Japan's Agency of Industrial Science (Tokyo, Japan) and Fine Ceramics Research Assn. (Tokyo, Japan) have developed a nano-size ceramic film with one-dimensional through-channels that can be used as a gas...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Transformer Is Named EDN "Finalist".
March 1, 2000... A new patented piezoelectric transformer, developed by CTS Wireless Components, has been named a "finalist" product in EDN Magazine's 1999 Innovator/Innovation of the Year Awards Contest. Open to any individual or company, the annual...

CoorsTek Moves in Assembly Business.
March 1, 2000... CoorsTek, Inc. has won semiconductor assembly business worth $25 million to $35 million. This award is in addition to the company's projected 2000 revenue for the semiconductor segment of at least $120 million. As a result, the company says...

EDO Corp. Gets Navy Award.
March 1, 2000... EDO Corp. has been awarded a $9.2 million contract by The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, RI), to develop and produce a new depth-sounding system (AN/BQN-17) for U.S. attack submarines. The contract will be performed at EDO's...

INDUSTRY NEWS: AMSC Reports Revenues Up.
March 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. reported that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2000 ended December 31, 1999, were $5.03 million, compared with $2.58 million recorded in the same period last year. Third-quarter revenues for fiscal 2000...

Superconductive Gets Distributor in Japan.
March 1, 2000... Superconductive Components, Inc. has announced that Inorganic Division of Earth Chemical Co., Ltd. has been retained as its exclusive distributor for Japan. "In the competitive international race to develop and commercialize applications of...

Conductus Sees Revenues Drop.
March 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDTS), a leading manufacturer of high-performance superconducting wireless systems, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 1999. Revenues for the quarter ended December 31,...

Spin-Off Spins Off CoorsTek.
March 1, 2000... Coors Brewing Co. spin-off ACX Technologies (16000 Table Mountain Pkwy., Golden, CO 80403; Tel: 303/271-7000) has, in turn, spun off CoorsTek, Inc., formerly known as Coors Ceramics, as a tax-free dividend. ACX Technologies was created by...

CTS Sets a Record.
March 1, 2000... CTS Corp. announced record results for sales, earnings, and earnings per share for the fiscal quarter and year ended December 31, 1999. CTS' net sales were $198.7 million for the fourth quarter of 1999, an increase of 113% over the comparable...

EDO Corp's Net Falls.
March 1, 2000... EDO Corp. announced that earnings from continuing operations available for common shares for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 1999, were $1,654,000 ($0.21 per diluted share), reflecting a 30% effective tax rate. Sales for the period...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Italian Utility Orders SMES Units.
March 1, 2000... American Superconductor has an order for two of its proprietary superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) units from Edison, the largest private utility in Italy, and a new distributor for American Superconductor's SMES product line....

First Practical Power Cable.
March 1, 2000... At a ceremony on February 18, 2000, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson joined Georgia Governor Roy Barnes and Southwire Co. Chairman Roy Richards, Jr. in dedicating the world's first industrial application of high-temperature superconducting...

Nortel to Recommend Conductus System.
March 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc. said Nortel Networks Corp., North America's number-two phone- equipment maker, will recommend its superconductor filtering systems to companies that are upgrading their cellular networks. Nortel verified that the system,...

CALENDAR.
March 1, 2000... April 10-11, 2000, Ceramic Convention 2000, Cirencester, U.K. Contact: AGM British Ceramic Division of the Institute of Materials, IOM Communications Ltd., 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB, U.K. April 15-20, 2000, 43rd Annual...