How do your customers find you? Are you using every resource available to grow your business? ACerS has a valuable online tool to help you maximize your business—the ceramicSOURCE Buyers…
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Optical images of a red-figure pottery fragment from Athens circa 700-500 BC. The black gloss results from a clay slip reaction to alternating oxidizing and reducing atmospheres during firing.…
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ACerS officials and ECerS officials agreed on some intersociety collaborations when they met this week in Limoges, France, during the ECerS biennial conference. Standing: Richard Brow (ACerS president), Agnes…
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Screen capture from video shows compression testing of a concrete sample reinforced with recycled industrial fibers. Credit: Euronews. We recently reported on how today’s concrete industry could take a few…
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Last week Thomson Reuters issued their annual journal impact factor statistics. For those in the scholarly publishing business, these metrics are indicators of a journal’s quality and how it stacks…
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The tenth Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology wrapped up last Friday at midday. The general consensus among attendees that I asked was that the technical program was…
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You’ve heard the engineering maxim: “Stronger, faster, cheaper—pick two.” ACerS rolled out its new website yesterday, and it handily meets those first two items, and then some! We simplified the…
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I can’t believe it’s already Friday, the last day of PACRIM 10. Although I know many attendees left this morning, there are still conference rooms filled with audiences for the…
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Most of the presentations I attended in the past three days were given by researchers from universities and national labs, which often were more about basic science and less about…
Read MoreThe presidents of the five PACRIM partner societies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue the conference collaboration through at least 2031. Credit: ACerS. “The ‘average’ level of the talks…
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