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The application potential of advanced ceramics is enormous, but industrial manufacturers have to reduce the production costs in order to place their products permanently in the end user markets. Due to the relatively high material costs, the market for fiber-reinforced ceramics is limited to a few applications in which the positive properties of CMCs such as mechanical and thermal stability are essential. However, the potential of these materials is considerably higher for applications in stationary energy technology (gas turbines, micro-gas turbines) or aerospace (aircraft engines).

A major novelty of the new EU Research and Innovation Funding Programme Horizon 2020, is the introduction of a dedicated SME instrument.

The biggest event in the medical device industry for French-speaking countries, MEDTEC France 2014, will take place in Lyon on 9–10 April 2014. All the key players in the medical device industry will converge upon Lyon for the 6th edition of MEDTEC France.

CIEC – European Inter-Regional Conference on Ceramics biannually brings together researchers of the economically, and scientifically strongest European regions.

The 58th Brazilian Congress on Ceramics will be held 18–21 May in Bento Gonçalves, city of the brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

CoorsTek, Inc., announced the opening of a new plant in the Coors Technology Center in Golden, Colorado, producing premium lightweight ceramic proppants. 

Solar Manufacturing delivered and successfully started-up a designed vacuum furnace required by a major specialized coating services company.