Double birthday – this year, the DITF Denkendorf celebrate their 100thanniversary as well as 30 years of ceramic fibre research. Ceramics andfibre do not sound compatible at first. Nonetheless, R&D in the field ofhigh-performance oxide ceramic fibres has been successfully carried outat the DITF since 1990, not least due to their expertise in the textile … Read more
The demands on components in terms of individualisation,functionalisation and miniaturisation, increased lifetime, but alsoresource efficiency during manufacturing and in use increasecontinuously. Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies offer productionpossibilities that were previously unfeasible using conventionalmanufacturing technologies or required enormous effort. In order todemonstrate the future possibilities as a result of the extendedfunctionalities of ceramic components, the development … Read more
MERSEN Boostec SiC is a polycrystalline technical ceramic obtained bypressureless sintering resulting in a silicon carbide completely free ofnon-combined silicon. This paper gives a short description of the MERSENBoostec company. Four of its main current commercial activities concerninglaser processes, semiconductor and optomechanics OEMs as well ascontinuous flow reactors for the chemical industry are overviewed.
Founded by three engineers in 2008, Nanoe is a French company specialisedin the elaboration and production of highly innovative materials. With itsknowledge and know-how in the ceramics field, the company launched in2018 a new brand, Zetamix: the first ceramic and metal filamentsaccessible to all. LEAT is a French laboratory dedicated to Information andCommunication Technologies (ICT). … Read more
Porcelain, the material from which plates and cups are made, was thefirst ceramic feedstock to be processed for electrical engineeringapplications. The second oldest material for such uses is soapstone.Nowadays soap-stone and its derivatives (i.e. steatites) are indispensablearticles of every-day life and essential materials for industrialapplications. Steatites have outstanding dielectric properties and possessgreat mechanical strength. Accordingly, … Read more
Steatite, a classic material in technical ceramics, boasts hightemperature resistance, tracking resistance and dielectricstrength, and it is therefore an ideal insulating material forapplications in electrical engineering. Speciality porous materialsmade of cordierite are used especially for applications thatrequire high thermal shock resistance.
Together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/DE) and thechemical company BASF/DE, Bosch Advanced Ceramics/DE has developeda complex microreactor made of technical ceramics for high-temperaturereactions and produced it using Additive Manufacturing (AM).Microreactors, which are often used, to research the fundamentalsof chemical-technical processes, have to withstand the harshestconditions.Bosch Advanced
In October 2021, the company inaugurated a new building inBonnac La Côte near Limoges. With 3000 m2 for manufacturingmachines and mixes as well as R&D work for materials andlasers plus office space and meeting rooms, the new facility setsa milestone in the history of the company. Richard Gaignon (RG),CEO and co-founder with Christophe Chaput, explained … Read more
Coonomlithi Monolithic ceramics, composites or metals, which cannot bemanufactured in one piece must be joined. By using joining technologiesmaterial hybrids are also possible. Ceramic-to-metal joinings expand theapplication spectrum enormously. By joining of simple serial partscomplex geometries for specific applications can be realized.
The sinter furnace for zirconia ceramics in respect of heating withmolybdenum disilicide heating elements (MoSi2) and high temperatureinsulation based on polycrystalline alumina wool (PCW) provides asolution for dental ceramics.