Corporate Technical Achievement Award

Corning Incorporated

By Erica Zimmerman / July 13, 2020

Corning Incorporated is a leading supplier of advanced cellular ceramic substrates and ceramic particulate filters for the world’s major manufacturers of gasoline and diesel vehicles. The company invented an economical,…

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AdValue Photonics

By Erica Zimmerman / May 21, 2018

AdValue Photonics Inc wins the 2018 Corporate Technical Achievement Award for the development of highly rare-earth doped silicate glass fibers. AdValue Photonics is a leading manufacturer of innovative fiber lasers…

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SELEE Corporation

By Erica Zimmerman / May 24, 2017

SELEE® wins the 2017 Corporate Technical Achievement Award for the development of an aluminosilicate-based ceramic foam filter for molten iron and aluminum filtration. Many foundries today use ceramic foam to…

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Sharp Corporation and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (SEL)

By Deidre Haignere / May 19, 2016

Technical Achievement: Indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO), an oxide semiconductor, is drawing attention as a promising semiconductor material. Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (SEL) and Sharp Corporation (Sharp) have developed and commercialized…

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Allied Mineral Products

By Deidre Haignere / May 19, 2015

Allied Mineral Products won this year’s Corporate Technical Achievement Award for its successful development of a unique graphitic refractory castable, STACKCRETE® G, commercially used in blast furnaces. Carbonaceous bricks are…

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Somany Ceramics Ltd., India

By Deidre Haignere / May 13, 2014

Somany Ceramics Limited wins the ACerS 2014 Corporate Technical Achievement for their development of Somany Veil Craft (VC) Shield Floor Tiles.  VC shield tiles are high abrasion resistant floor tiles…

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Surmet Corp

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

  Surmet Corp for ALON® Optical Ceramic Development and Commercialization Surmet Corp wins this year’s corporate technical achievement award for its successful development and commercialization of optically transparent hard ceramic…

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Corporate Technical Achievement Award

By Eileen De Guire / March 6, 2013

This award recognizes a single outstanding technical achievement made by an ACerS corporate member in the field of ceramics. The achievement must show significant technical merit and represent a gain to society through commercialization of the technology within the preceding eight years. Through this award, the Society recognizes corporate members who have taken a technology and successfully developed it into a viable commercial product. It is not necessary for the technical and commercial development to be accomplished by one company, and joint nominations can be submitted. Up to two awards may be made each year.

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