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The entire CerPoTech/NO team has joined recently Ceramic Applications and aims to introduce their activities briefly to the com­munity and the readers of the magazine.

LAPP Insulators Alumina GmbH/DE has been named as one of the innovation leaders among the German SMEs.

Advanced Engineering 2017 announced already in July that its composites zone was over 90 % full with only 10 stands remaining, with companies such as Meg­gitt Polymers & Composites, Penso, Rehau and Hexcel participating at the show.

With visitor numbers and satisfaction at the same levels as in previous years in a market that is bouncing back, the 16^th EPHJ–EPMT–SMT trade show in Switzerland confirmed the resilience and remarkable innovative ability of the professional watchmaking and jewellery, microtechnology and medical technology environment.

Data represent a resource of growing strategic importance to businesses in every sector of the economy. But this places data owners in a quandary, because the higher the value of their data, the greater the need for protective measures that conflict with the data-sharing imperatives of an economy based on increasingly complex data-based services and new digital business models. To resolve this dilemma, 12 Fraunhofer Institutes/DE have spent the past two years working on a solution they call the Industrial Data Space.

Turning ideas into reality – this is the motto of the new Technology Center at Physik Instrumente (PI) that was inaugurated on front of more than 100 guests at PI’s headquarters in Karlsruhe.

SGL Group signed the sale and purchase agreement to sell its cathodes, furnace linings, and carbon electrodes (CFL/CE) business to funds advised by Triton.

Zirconium Oxide Bright developed by CeramTec/DE joins the company’s existing product range Zirconium Oxide Shine, Zirconium Oxide Translucent and Zirconium Oxide Opaque. The new material, shown publicly for the first time at the IDS (21–25 March 2017) in Cologne/DE, offers many new possibilities to dental technicians and dentists.

PI Ceramic/DE manufactures piezoelectric tubes in miniature format. The tubes are suitable for the finest actuator applications and are used for example, in medicine technology.

Tucked away in a Cambridgeshire business park is a company that has quietly grown to be one of the most respected suppliers of research-grade metals, ceramics and polymers in the world. Goodfellow/GB, celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year, continues to grow and thrive on a tradition of quality products, reliability and personalised service that’s as relevant today as it was a half-century ago.