High Tech Ceramics News articles from November 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from November 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Diamond, DLC Films Market Takes Off.
November 1, 2002... Diamond has long held a special place in the hearts and minds both of scientists and the public at large. It is the hardest material known and has the highest thermal conductivity among all known materials. Combined with these important...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Kennametal Expands Solid Carbide Line.
November 1, 2002... Kennametal has expanded its solid carbide end mill line with five new high-performance milling grades that offer productivity gains in steels, tool steels, cast irons, high-temperature alloys, and other materials. KC633M is a multilayer...

Thermo Electron Intros Service Program.
November 1, 2002... Thermo Electron Corp. provides instrumentation, information- management software, and worldwide service for a range of applications in a myriad of industries. Thermo Electron recently announced an innovative customer support solution. By...

Zircar Introduces New Insulation.
November 1, 2002... ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc., the Florida, New York, manufacturer of high-performance ceramic fiber-based products, has introduced a new Alumina Silica Insulation TYPE Z-500. Designed specifically for use in the transport and continuous casting of...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Paar Physica Strenthens Services.
November 1, 2002... Paar Physica USA, the U.S. distributor of Physica research and quality control grade rheometers and viscometers, recently announced the addition of Pete Wheeler as consulting rheologist for the Midwest and Reinhard Eberl as national service...

Quality Control Capabilities Expanded.
November 1, 2002... Trikon Technologies recently added a camera and image analysis software to its Leica MZ12 stereomicroscope. A materials workstation and additional software for particle sizing has proved invaluable for inspecting the consistency of the gas...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Altair Nanotech in Pigment Agreement.
November 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies announced that it has entered into a services agreement with one of the largest materials companies in the Asia Pacific region. Under the terms of the agreement, Altair will determine the suitability of this company's...

SMP,GE in Metals Deal.
November 1, 2002... Superior MicroPowders (SMP), an advanced materials developer and manufacturer, has received joint venture funding with General Electric under a 3-year, $7.2M NIST ATP program. The program, entitled "Nanoengineered Thermal Interfaces Enabling...

SI Diamond Unveils Nanotube Composites.
November 1, 2002... SI Diamond Technology, Inc., through its subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), has produced new carbon nanotube composites for electron field emission applications with "significantly improved properties." By combining these proprietary...

COATINGS: Gartner Thermal Wins Orders.
November 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies has received another order from Houston- based F.W. Gartner Thermal Spraying Co. to provide more than 1,000 pounds of one of its patented, nano-structured titanium dioxide- based thermal spray products. Gartner is...

BeamAlloy Opens Service Center.
November 1, 2002... Worthington BeamAlloy Corp., a division of Worthington Industries, has announced the opening of a commercial coating service center specializing in the treatment of precision engineered parts and manufacturing tooling. The service center offers...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: ZIRCAR Introduces Refractory Sheet.
November 1, 2002... ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc., Florida, New York, has introduced Refractory Sheet Board Type RS-1200. It is a high- strength composite designed for use as thermo-mechanical and electrical insulation in applications with temperatures as...

ABRASIVES: Noritake to Produce CBN in the U.S.
November 1, 2002... The Noritake Abrasive Division will begin manufacturing vitrified bond CBN superabrasive grinding wheels in the United States beginning in February 2003. The expansion of the current 16,000- sq.-ft. facility is currently under construction in...

VSM Abrasives Has Abrasive Grains.
November 1, 2002... VSM Abrasive Corp. supplies a new abrasive grain, COMPACTGRAIN. VSM claims that this abrasive increases belt and disc life in polishing applications by 3 to 10 times when compared with conventional abrasives. This value-added product reduces...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Low-k Dielectrics for Interconnects.
November 1, 2002... Low dielectric constant (k) insulators, with k significantly lower than that of presently used SiO2, are needed for reducing the interconnect capacitance of the continuously shrinking ULSI chips. The reduced capacitance will improve the...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning to Expand LCD Glass Capacity.
November 1, 2002... Corning, Inc. has a major expansion project at its Taiwan manufacturing facility in the Tainan Science-based Industrial Park. This new investment in capacity will add melting and forming lines to make the plant a fully integrated LCD glass...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Smart Ceramics from Continuum Photonics.
November 1, 2002... Continuum is using its experience in materials science to develop a "smart ceramic" switching component for optical networks. Industry sources say the company will use MEMS to cut signal loss dramatically. The customers are the telecom...

Piezo Technologies Wins Surgical Grant.
November 1, 2002... Many thousands of Americans develop and die from gastrointestinal and cardiovascular conditions that are difficult or impossible to treat. Piezo Technologies has been awarded a national grant to develop "High Power Piezoelectric Ceramics and...

Low-Power, High-Speed FRAM.
November 1, 2002... Ramtron International Corp. announced the expansion of its low power ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) product line with the introduction and availability of the 4-kilobit (Kb) FM24CL04. The new low-power consumption FRAM device offers...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: SuperPower, ORNL Develop Wire Technology.
November 1, 2002... SuperPower, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), executed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop second-generation high-temperature superconductor...

AMSC Awarded ATP Award.
November 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. has been awarded a $2 million, 2- year cost-sharing grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The grant will be used by AMSC to accelerate the scale-up of its patented,...

Superconductivity Industry Association Formed.
November 1, 2002... A newly formed Coalition for the Commercial Applications Superconductivity (CCAS) announced that it intends to "expand its outreach and play a vital role in the accelerated commercial development of the superconductor industry." According to a...

Conducts Receives NRL Award.
November 1, 2002... Conductus, Inc. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop advanced ultra-narrow, tunable filter technology to address Naval application requirements. This project, entitled "Tunable Ultra-Narrow...

INDUSTRY NEWS: GE Specialty Materials Completes Acquisition.
November 1, 2002... GE Specialty Materials, a unit of General Electric Co., has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Advanced Ceramics Corp. and Advanced Ceramics International Corp. Advanced Ceramics is the world's largest boron...

CoorsTex , C.L. Smith Combine Strengths.
November 1, 2002... CoorsTek, Inc. has named C.L. Smith Industrial Ceramics an experienced provider of wear products and installation services, as its exclusive agent in power generation markets. "The alliance simply makes sense," says Mel Glass, Wear Products...

STI, Conductus to Merge.
November 1, 2002... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. and Conductus, Inc. have signed an agreement to merge and secured commitments for $15 million investment and lowered their third-quarter forecasts. Santa Barbara, California-based STI said it expects...

Zircar in Alliance with Naoi Kizai.
November 1, 2002... ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. and Beijing's Naoi Kizai formed a strategic alliance to expand Zircar's business in Asia. The agreement was signed between Beijing Naoi Kizai's managing director Shigeo Yasukawa and ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc.'s vice president...

Cree Reports Revenue Gain.
November 1, 2002... Cree, Inc. reported revenue of $48,811,000 for the first quarter of fiscal 2003, which represents a 29% increase, sequentially, over the company's fourth-quarter fiscal 2002 revenue of $37,800,000 and a 13% increase over the comparable year ago...

CTS Reports Improved Results.
November 1, 2002... CTS Corp. announced operating results from the fiscal 2002 third quarter ending September 29, 2002. On revenues of $110.9 million, the company recorded net earnings before restructuring and related one-time charges, of $17,000, for the third...

Kemet Sees Sales Drop.
November 1, 2002... KEMET Corp. reported sales and earnings for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2002. Net sales of $113.1 million for the September 2002 quarter decreased 6% compared with $120.6 million for the September 2001 quarter, and decreased...

Nanophase Technologies Revenues Up.
November 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced financial results for third quarter 2002 and the first nine months. For the quarter ending September 30, 2002, revenues totaled $1.3 million compared with $0.7 million in the third quarter of 2001, for...

ATP Announces 40 New Awards.
November 1, 2002... Detailed computer simulations of normal and cancer cells to aid in drug development; an environmentally friendly, high-tech pest management system; and a "fuel cell on a chip" power source for handheld electronics are among the novel...

CALENDAR.
November 1, 2002... December 2-6, 2002. Materials Research Society - 2002 Fall Meeting. Contact: Mary E. Kaufold, MRS; Tel: 724/779-8312, Fax: 724/779-4397; Email: kaufold@mrs.org January 26-31, 2003. 27th Annual Cocoa Beach Conference and Exposition, an...