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Unfortunately, the coronavirus COVID-19 has meanwhile influenced all of our everyday lives and it can be assumed that the number of infections will continue to increase. It is all the more important for Frey & Co GmbH/DE to inform you as the customer as best the company can about its current delivery and service situation.

Additive Manufacturing has been a topic at the VDI – Association of German Engineers since 2003. With the guideline VDI 3404, the FA 105 (Technical Committee Additive Manufacturing – General Committee) published the first technical standard for this still young technology in 2009. In the meantime, a number of further guidelines have been developed by the numerous honorary members of the Technical Committees.

As a subsidiary of the Eisenmann Group, Eisenmann Thermal Solutions GmbH & Co. KG/DE, had to file for bankruptcy in early August 2019.

BASF New Business GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the German chemical company BASF, and the Japanese ceramics manufacturer NGK INSULATORS, LTD. are expanding their cooperation. In addition to the sales partnership agreement for NAS^® batteries announced in June 2019, they have entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop the next generation of sodium-sulfur batteries.

As of now, eMBe Products & Service GmbH/DE operates under the name KRAHN Ceramics GmbH/DE.

Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. in Karlsruhe/DE has now implemented a quiet and long-planned generational change in its management. After 42 years as Managing Director, Dr Karl Spanner has handed over the management of the company to his son, Markus Spanner.

In September 2019, vinyl record sales overtook CDs for the first time in 30 years. The discs may be old fashioned, but the turntables are more modern than ever, with the turntable manufacturer Rega using advanced ceramics from CeramTec/DE.

INCUS GmbH/AT, the new Additive Manufacturing (AM) company working with metal materials, has evolved from ceramic AM specialist Lithoz GmbH/AT, and was presented at the formnext 2019. The company’s Hammer series machine utilizes photopolymerization for the AM of metal components. This technology combines excellent surface aesthetics for fine structures with cost-efficiency, reproducibility and an increased manufacturing speed.

FORMATEC/NL announced that it´s expanding its portfolio of production services with 3D-printing ceramics. Since the 1 January of this year, the company accepts orders for 3D-printed ceramics.

As of 1 June 2019, Höganäs Group of Sweden and H.C. Starck Surface Technology & Ceramic Powders (STC) act under the same brand and name on the market: Höganäs.