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Final FY12 budget reveals happy new year for federally supported R&D

By Eileen De Guire / January 11, 2012

In December, President Obama signed the 2012 budget bill, breathing life into the federal fiscal year before the continuing resolution flowed into the new calendar year. Credit: adapted from the…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / January 11, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: ClearEdge Power lands world’s largest utility fuel cell deal Fuel cell maker ClearEdge Power has scored the mother of all utility deals: a 50…

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Army awards SBIR to use NDE to reduce missile dome fabrication costs

By Eileen De Guire / January 10, 2012

High clarity and concentricity are necessary features of aluminum oxynitride multimode seeker domes being developed for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile. Credit: Surmet. The business end of a missile is not…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / December 22, 2011

Here’s what we’re hearing from press releases, news stories, blogs, etc.. Morgan Technical Ceramics’ ceramic end effectors set to become component of choice for handling 450mm semiconductor wafers Increased consumer…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / December 15, 2011

Here’s what we’re hearing (from press releases, news stories and blogs) Lancaster Products introduces the Model K-3.5 Hi-intensive industrial mixer Lancaster Products has added the new model K-3.5 Mixer to…

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ACerS job opening: Corporate program development manager

By Eileen De Guire / December 6, 2011

If you have an advanced degree in materials science, are passionate about engineered ceramics, have an entrepreneurial spirit with a talent for building business relationships, and like being at the…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / December 1, 2011

Here’s what we’re hearing: SGS ClimaCoat : The innovative windshield combining comfort and respect for the environment (pdf) Saint-Gobain Sekurit has developed sgs ClimaCoat, an all-weather windshield. In winter, at…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / November 18, 2011

Here’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): Superior safety for next gen high-temperature reactor: China receives first glass-to-metal sealed hermetic penetration assembly from Schott for testing China’s…

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Glass wall condos getting slammed as ‘throw away buildings’ in CBC series

By / November 16, 2011

Toronto lakefront skyline. Credit: Chensiyuan; Wikipedia. I wasn’t aware that Toronto has more glass condominium high-rise structures than any other city in North America, but I will take the Canadian…

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White House announces recent Materials Genome Initiative developments

By / November 15, 2011

The White House’s Cyrus Wadia, speaking above right with Penn State’s Zi-Kui Liu at the recent MS&T’11 meeting, and Tom Kalil revealed several new projects in support of the MGI.…

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