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Rauschert/DE, one of the leading manufacturers of advanced engineered ceramics with more than 115 years of design and manufacturing experience, expands its North American sales network.

During the Ceramic Days, in December 2014 in Brussels, EuTeCer, who represents the technical ceramics industry in Europe, elected a new President.

Rubis-Precis has developed recently a wide range of wear-resistant custom products made in various high-tech ceramics such as zirconia, alumina oxide, silicon nitride and carbide, zerodur, macor, boron carbide and quartz.

The service life and reliability of piezo actuators strongly depends on the environmental conditions at the site of application. Humidity, temperature and operating voltage are of considerable influence. The answer lies in optimized materials and manufacturing processes, appropriate design and the choice of suitable insulation. For the PICMA^® actuators from PI Ceramic, the piezo ceramic is actually a monolithic block with active layers made up of thin ceramic films and surrounded by an all-ceramic insulating layer.

According to the Freedonia Group, an international market research firm based in Cleveland/US, demand for advanced ceramics manufacturing will grow 6 % in the USA this year.

Although the adoption and commercialisation of carbon fibre is poised to escalate across industries due to its unique benefits and attributes, the high costs of raw materials, manufacturing, and integration in end-user sectors remains a challenge. Research activities, along with strategic and research partnerships between the research community and the industry as well as funding from both government and private agencies will be crucial to spearhead the sustainable use of carbon fibre.

The European composites market is still growing. This sustained upward trend is also reflected at this year’s COMPOSITES EUROPE which will be held from 22–24 September in Stuttgart.

The German Carbon Group (AKK) invites everybody interested in scientific and industrial topics related to carbon materials to attend the Annual World Conference on Carbon – CARBON 2015 in Dresden.

The new trade manufacturing show Ceramics Expo is free to attend and is presented in collaboration with founding partner the American Ceramic Society.

IPS Ceramics/GB announced that it had added aluminium nitride to its range of technical ceramics.