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Using new silicon carbide (SiC) diodes, Siemens/DE and its research partners have succeeded in increasing the power of frequency converters by almost 10 %. 

Markus M. Jessberger (52) who has been Event Director of ALUMINIUM, COMPOSITES EUROPE and HYBRID Expo since 2008 will leave Reed Exhibitions Deutschland at the end of this year to take up a new professional challenge.

End of July the contract was signed by Fraunhofer/DE and the University of Connecticut UConn/US for the establishment of the new research facility.

KRAHN CHEMIE/DE will be distributing silicon carbide (SiC) fine powders of Carborundum Universal Limited (CUMI)/IN in Europe.

Through its Ceramic and Glass Division, Goodfellow/DE offers a range of synthetic sapphire products for research and industrial applications, notably in the areas of optical design, electronics, mechanical components, medical instrumentation and aeronautics.

Ceramic and metallic green tapes as far as compound tapes of both materials, produced by tape casting, will be evaluated regarding structuring processes by Fraunhofer IKTS/DE and KIT/DE within the research project INKA, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (IGF 17839 BG).

The Fraunhofer AdvanCer Alliance/DE has organized its own training program for technicians and engineers. The three training blocks held once a year offer an insight into the fields of materials research, ceramic technologies, production engineering, material mechanics, fatigue strength and non-destructive test methods.

Ceramics Meeting Point and the Fraunhofer AdvanCer Alliance/DE addressed the topic of ceramic design applications at this years InnoMateria trade fair in Cologne/DE.

EMPA in Dübendorf near Zürich/CH is the interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich).

The Process Engineering Technical Committee of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) is organizing this year’s autumn symposium in Erlangen, Germany, on 3 – 4 December 2013.