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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / January 31, 2013

Here is what we are hearing: Osram Brilliant Mix LED concept: Universal controller simplifies electronic control ?The Brilliant Mix LED color mixing concept from Osram Opto Semiconductors is now even…

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Ceramic material key to U.K. bi-polar battery

By / January 31, 2013

The news of a major industrial collaboration to produce the world

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ICACC’13 Photoblog #2 from Daytona Beach

By / January 29, 2013

2013 Program Chair Sujanto Widjaja opens the ICACC’13 Plenary Session. Credit: ACerS. The first “business” day of the ICACC’13 meeting plenary and award speakers (plus the awarding of the best…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / January 26, 2013

• UK company Magma Ceramics & Catalysts has bought a 6000-square-meter manufacturing building in Vietnam to support its ceramics division, situated between Hanoi and Haiphong. Building modifications will commence in…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / January 24, 2013

Here is what we are hearing: Zircoa transfers product business activities from Didier, forms Zircoa GmbH For more than 20 years Didier served as representative for many of Zircoa’s products…

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Corning’s “Advancing the Vision-2” videos: How others describe futures made of glass

By / January 22, 2013

Back in October, Corning held its second “Advancing the Vision” symposium in Palo Alto, Calif., to hear from a broad and select field of advanced technology consumers (e.g., advanced medical,…

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Strong bubbles burst glass bottles

By Eileen De Guire / January 21, 2013

A perfectly good glass bottle can be broken by the force exerted by collapsing bubbles. A team of BYU fluid dynamics graduate students took the time to figure out how.…

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ICG, Wiley offer primer on bio-glasses

By / January 15, 2013

The International Commission on Glass and Wiley are offering a relatively new book that is meant to serve as an introduction for undergraduate and graduate students to the burgeoning field…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / January 14, 2013

• A report by Visiongain indicates that the global glass packaging market will reach a value of $36.8 billion in 2013. This growth is as a result of the emerging…

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Strong, lightweight, and ductile (yes, ductile) silica glass nanofibers

By Eileen De Guire / January 11, 2013

University of Southampton (UK) scientist, Gilberto Brambilla, developed the strongest, lightest known silica glass nanofibers. Credit: U. Southampton. It looks like a team of optoelectronics researchers from the University of…

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