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QSIL: Glass and Ceramic Materials for Innovative Future Applications
The QSIL Group is an innovative, internationally operating material specialist focussing on the production of fused quartz and, since 2019...
March 6, 2020
New VDI Technical Committee
Additive Manufacturing has been a topic at the VDI – Association of German Engineers since 2003. With the guideline VDI...
February 17, 2020
FORMATEC Expanding with In-House Ceramic 3D-Printing
FORMATEC/NL announced that it´s expanding its portfolio of production services with 3D-printing ceramics. Since the 1 January of this year,...
February 13, 2020
Lithoz Presented INCUS at formnext 2019
INCUS GmbH/AT, the new Additive Manufacturing (AM) company working with metal materials, has evolved from ceramic AM specialist Lithoz GmbH/AT,...
February 13, 2020
Advanced Ceramics for Absolute Listening Pleasure
In September 2019, vinyl record sales overtook CDs for the first time in 30 years. The discs may be old...
February 13, 2020
Generational Change at the High-Tech Company PI
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. in Karlsruhe/DE has now implemented a quiet and long-planned generational change in its management....
February 13, 2020
eMBe Products & Service Renamed to KRAHN Ceramics
As of now, eMBe Products & Service GmbH/DE operates under the name KRAHN Ceramics GmbH/DE.
February 13, 2020
BASF and NGK to Partner on Developing the Next Generation of Sodium-Sulfur Batteries
BASF New Business GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the German chemical company BASF, and the Japanese ceramics manufacturer NGK...
February 13, 2020
Eisenmann Thermal Solutions: Reorganization Successfully Completed
As a subsidiary of the Eisenmann Group, Eisenmann Thermal Solutions GmbH & Co. KG/DE, had to file for bankruptcy in...
February 13, 2020
Ready to Make Mass Production Possible with a 3D-Printer
The French company based in Limoges, cradle of the French ceramic, 3DCERAM Sinto goes further in offering the biggest building...
December 10, 2019
Höganäs Replaced H.C. Starck Brand as of 1 June 2019
As of 1 June 2019, Höganäs Group of Sweden and H.C. Starck Surface Technology & Ceramic Powders (STC) act under...
December 10, 2019
Ceratec Technical Ceramics BV – Part of the BIC Picture
The first Factory of the Future on the Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) in The Netherlands has a size of 100...
October 7, 2019
QSIL Acquires FCT Ingenieurkeramik GmbH
The Thuringian material specialist QSIL AG from Ilmenau/DE continues the strategic expansion of its technology and solution competence with the...
September 23, 2019
Ceramic Materials in Rolling Contact Bearings: Silicon Nitride for Increased Applications
The rolling contact fatigue of silicon nitride is considerably stronger than that of steel. This makes hybrid bearings a preferred...
September 6, 2019
Development and Application of Electrically Conductive Ceramics
Hybrid ceramics which consist of an electrically isolating matrix (Al2O3 or Si3N4) and an electrically conductive minority phase (TiN) were...
September 6, 2019
Additive Manufacturing of Functionalized Glass Components
Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes for polymers, ceramics and metals have become increasingly important in recent years for the manufacture of...
September 6, 2019
Precision Ceramics Introduces its Toughest Composite Yet
Dubbed “ceramic steel”, zirconia (ZrO2) ceramic materials offer a combination of high hardness, wear and corrosion resistance while still maintaining...
September 6, 2019
CIM-Pro Prototypes in Ceramic Injection Moulding: Fast, Near-Series, Low-Cost
Near-series small or pilot series of CIM components in four weeks – Kläger/DE fabricates prototypes in injection moulding from rapid...
September 6, 2019
HIP – a Partner for MIM, SLS and AM Innovation in Hot Isostatic Presses HIP for Post-Compaction of Components Originally Formed from Metal Powders
Hot Isostatic Presses (HIP) are machines operated at high temperature and high pressure. Developed in the USA in the 1940s...
September 6, 2019
Whenever it Gets a Bit Warmer: Technical Ceramics in Electric Heating
Technical ceramics made of many different ceramic materials as well as in many different geometries (Fig. 1) have been indispensable...
September 6, 2019
Metoxit: “Swiss-Made” Oxide Ceramic Components to Meet the Highest Standards
Metoxit AG in Thayingen/CH is established in dental and other medical applications as a supplier of biocompatible ceramic components. A...
September 6, 2019
New Building for Fibre Pilot Plant Unique in Europe Inaugurated at Fraunhofer Center HTL
At the Fraunhofer Center for High-Temperature Materials and Design HTL in Bayreuth/DE, the new building for a fibre pilot plant,...
September 6, 2019
Elkem Silicon Materials Expands its Milling Capabilities
As one of the leading global silicon producers with more than 85 years of metallurgical competence and production, Elkem Silicon...
August 22, 2019
Ready to Make Mass Production Possible with a 3D-Printer
The French company based in Limoges, cradle of the French ceramic, 3DCERAM Sinto goes further in offering the biggest building...
August 22, 2019
Hybride Processes and Hybride Ceramics
The Working Group Process Engineering of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) has prepared a conference programme for 3–4 December 2019...
August 22, 2019
Frey Systeme Strengthened Management Team
Dieter Lauber takes over as Deputy Managing Director at Frey & Co. GmbH/DE. Dieter Lauber worked in the last 16...
August 22, 2019
SGL Carbon and Elbe Flugzeugwerke Extend Contract
SGL Carbon/DE and Elbe Flugzeugwerke, a long-established German aircraft manufacturer, have extended their contract to supply prepregs (impregnated carbon fibre...
August 22, 2019
SiCeram Introduces Ceramic Filaments for 3D-Printing
On the occasion of RAPID.TECH FABCON 3.D from 25–27 June 2019 in Erfurt/DE, the German company SiCeram GmbH presented for...
August 22, 2019
Car Manufacturers Benefit when Höganäs Starts Collaboration with Dontyne Gears
Lighter metal powder components with complex designs can bring substantial cost savings for car manufacturers and system suppliers in the...
August 22, 2019
Kyocera to Acquire Advanced Ceramic Business of Germany-Based Friatec GmbH
Kyocera Corporation announced end of May 2019 that its Germany-based European headquarters, Kyocera Fineceramics GmbH, will acquire the advanced ceramics...
August 22, 2019
