High Tech Ceramics News articles from November 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from November 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Manufacturers Report Abrasives Production.
November 1, 2001... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects quarterly data on the production of manufactured abrasives and is published through its Mineral Industry Surveys. The latest survey shows the production for the second quarter of 2001. Ceramic...

Fused Aluminum Oxide.
November 1, 2001... According to the Bureau of Census, U.S. imports of crude fused aluminum oxide for the year through May 2001 were 51,000 tons valued at $16.4 million or $321 per ton. About 45% of the imports came from China and 30% from Venezuela. Imports of...

Silicon Carbide.
November 1, 2001... Abrasive-grade silicon carbide is produced by one company in the U.S. and by one company in Canada. The total production during the first quarter of 2001 was 10,000 tons of abrasive-grade silicon carbide with an estimated value of $6.5 million....

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES New Superplastic Ceramic Developed.
November 1, 2001... Japan's National Institute for Materials Science has developed a new kind of "superplastic" ceramic which stretches like metal in high temperature. A recent article published in the British science journal Nature says that the new ceramic...

Aremco Offers Silicon Sealant.
November 1, 2001... Aremco-Seal 529 from Aremco Products, Inc. is an advanced, single part, optically clear silicone coating for use in applications to 600(F. Throughout this temperature range, the material is optically stable, non-crazing and impermeable to...

Personnel Armor Award to Ceradyne.
November 1, 2001... Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDN) has announced that it has received a small arms protective inserts (SAPI) lightweight ceramic personnel armor award from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency. The award represents an indefinite quantity, firm...

Assemblies for Laser Applications.
November 1, 2001... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) has announced a variety of precision-made ceramic components for numerous applications in the laser industry. According to MAC, its advanced ceramic components offer significant advantages over metal and...

Norton Abrasives Granted Patent.
November 1, 2001... Norton Abrasives was recently awarded a broad business process patent for technology that is used to determine the optimum setup for a specific grinding application. The process, referred to as "performance mapping," uses detailed grinding...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Matech Launches T Anti-Terror Initiatives.
November 1, 2001... Matech Advanced Materials has announced the launch of two programs to combat terrorism. First, the BioOptix Project is aimed at developing a compact, battery-operated, sophisticated sensor array for detective chemical and biological warfare...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: NSF Funds Centers for Nanoscale R&D.
November 1, 2001... Research at the nanoscale is needed to advance the development of the ultra-small technology that will transform electronics, materials, medicine and many other fields. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced awards...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning Moves to Ultra High Transmission.
November 1, 2001... Corning, Inc. (NYSE:GLW) announced that it has installed a pilot furnace in its Charleston, South Carolina, manufacturing facility for the production of ultra high transmission ArF grade HPFS fused silica glass. This material is used in...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Zircar Introduces Refractory Sheet.
November 1, 2001... ZIRCAR Refractories Composites, Inc. has announced the introduction of its new refractory sheet type RS-1200, a high strength composite designed for use as thermo-mechanical and electrical insulation in applications with temperatures up to...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: PCD Films for Electronics, MEMS.
November 1, 2001... High-temperature electronics and MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) based on polycrystalline diamond (PCD) appear to be promising because of their wide bandgap, high thermal conductivity, and large carrier mobilities. University of...

BIOCERAMICS: Dentsply Aquires Degussa Dental.
November 1, 2001... Dentsply International, Inc. and Degussa Dental, a unit of Degussa AG, recently announced the completion of the acquisition of Degussa Dental by Dentsply. Dentsply has acquired the worldwide Degussa Dental business in a cash transaction valued...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Corning to Build New Facility.
November 1, 2001... Corning, Inc. has announced that its board of directors has approved the construction of a new diesel emission control product manufacturing facility. The new plant, to be located in Erwin, New York, will use advanced manufacturing technologies...

FUEL CELL: Motorola Reports Fuel-Cell Progress.
November 1, 2001... Motorola recently announced that its scientists at Motorola Labs in Tempe have reached new milestones in their development of miniature fuel cells. The new fuel cells, which produce more power, may one day be used to operate everything from...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: AlN for High Power Dissipation.
November 1, 2001... CMC Wireless Components (Phoenix, AZ) has reported in the Microwave Journal (October 2001) that aluminum nitride (AlN) is an ideal electrically insulating material for use in high power electronic packaging applications. Possessing both high...

Cree Introduces New LED.
November 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has introduced its newest MegaBright light emitting diode (LED) product, the 505 traffic signal green device. This diode exhibits typical brightness of 8 mW, an increase to greater than two times the current...

CTS Offers New Clock Oscillator.
November 1, 2001... CTS Corp. (NYSE: CTS) has added a 106.25 MHz frequency clock to its popular CB3 family of standard 5 mm by 7 mm hermetically sealed ceramic clock oscillators. The 106.25 MHz frequency is required for Fibre Channel clocks used in data storage...

HP Processor Includes Ramtron's DDR ESRAM.
November 1, 2001... Ramtron International Corp., a subsidiary of Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc., has announced that its 72 Mb DDR Enhanced SRAM (ESRAM) is being used as a large Level 2 cache in the HP PA-8800 microprocessor, Hewlett-Packard Company's...

Rexam Expands Green Tape Manufacturing.
November 1, 2001... Rexam Electronic Films has expanded its green ceramic tape manufacturing to include thicknesses of less than 3 microns. Rexam has routinely manufactured green ceramic tapes from 3 microns to 15 mm in full production. Now, tapes from 1 micron to...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: U.S. DOE Pumps In $117 Million.
November 1, 2001... The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the next round of projects it has selected to fund under the auspices of its superconductivity partnership initiative (SPI). The DOE selected seven projects from a large list of proposals for...

ORNL Partners with Industry.
November 1, 2001... Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Superconductivity program has been selected to partner on three new superconductivity proposals that are being negotiated by U.S. industry. Superconductors are materials that can transmit electricity with...

AT&T Deploys STI Systems.
November 1, 2001... AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) one of the largest digital wireless networks in North America, and Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCON) ("STI") have announced the deployment of STI's superconducting filter systems throughout the Santa...

ISCO Recognized, Upgrades Systems.
November 1, 2001... ISCO International, Inc., a global supplier of interference- control solutions for the wireless telecommunications industry, has received certification for having met the ISO 9001:2000 quality standard established by the International Standards...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Record Earnings at CARBO Ceramics.
November 1, 2001... CARBO Ceramics, Inc. has announced net income of $8.3 million or $0.55 per share (on a diluted basis), on revenues of $36.6 million, for the quarter ended September 30, 2001. Both revenue and net income were the highest realized for any quarter...

AMSC Revenues are Down.
November 1, 2001... American Superconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: AMSC) reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2002, ended September 30, 2001. Net revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2002 were $3.26 million compared with $4.72 million for the...

STI Maintains Revenues.
November 1, 2001... Suiperconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI) announced gross commercial product revenues for the third quarter 2001 as $1.7 million, compared to $1.6 million in the year ago period. Net commercial revenues, which give effect to the accounting...

EDO Reports Earnings Gain.
November 1, 2001... EDO Corp. announced that net earnings for the third quarter ended September 29, 2001, increased to $3.8 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, on 13.4 million diluted common shares. Revenue for the third quarter of 2001 was $60.4 million,...

Kemet Beats its Forecasts.
November 1, 2001... Capacitor maker Kemet Corp. (NYSE: KEM) reported that a continuing fall in product shipment left it with net earnings in its September quarter of $1 million, or a penny per share, beating analysts' expectations, but far off $96.3 million, or...

Nanophase Revenue Maintained.
November 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced that it achieved gross revenue of approximately $1.1 million, or the same as the second quarter of 2001. However, reportable revenue for the current quarter equaled approximately $700,000 due to the...

CALENDAR.
November 1, 2001... December 11-15, 2001: Fourth Pacific Rim Intl. Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii. Contact: The Japan Institute of Materials, PRICM4 Secretariat, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0845,...