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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / December 6, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: APC publishes free piezo calculator iPhone, iPad app APC International Inc. has announced the release of its APCPiezoCalc iPhone and iPad app. The app…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / December 3, 2012

• Hindusthan National Glass and Industries has commissioned a 650-ton-per-day glass bottle plant at Naidupeta in Andhra Pradesh. The plant has swelled HNG’s capacity in the region to 1000 tpd,…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / November 29, 2012

Here’s what we are hearing: 3M completes acquisition of Ceradyne 3M announced that it has completed its acquisition of Ceradyne Inc. effective as of Nov. 28, 2012, pursuant to the…

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Fiber optics of the future: Multifunctionality through multimaterials

By / November 27, 2012

Three of the general methodologies for multimaterial fiber preform fabrication. (a) rod-in-tube, (b) extrusion, and (c) stack-and-draw methods. Credit: Tao et al.; IJAGS. Over the last 50 years, optical fibers…

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ceramicSOURCE now available in December Bulletin

By Eileen De Guire / November 27, 2012

They say, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” The just-published 2012-13 ceramicSOURCE buyer’s guide gives you access to more than 700 vendors worldwide that serve the ceramics…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / November 26, 2012

• Allied Glass Containers plans to invest in new furnace technology (above) and install an EME batch charger. According to the company, this is the first installation in the UK…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / November 22, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: PPG fiber glass joint venture starts fourth furnace in Kunshan, China PPG Industries announced that PFG Fiber Glass (Kunshan) Co.—its joint venture in Kunshan,…

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Good holiday reading: Wired’s ‘Glass Works: How Corning created the ultrathin, ultrastrong material of the future’

By / November 21, 2012

Gorilla Glass bend test. Credit: Corning Inc. I meant to write a post about this several weeks ago when Wired first published this (free) online story by Bryan Gardiner, but it…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / November 20, 2012

In the spirit of the Thankgiving Day feast, we offer a wide sampling of interesting and perhaps unexpected stories to fill your intellectual palate. Mo-Sci breaks ground for new industrial…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / November 20, 2012

• A new way to make glass has been discovered by a collaboration of researchers at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bristol using a method that controls how the atoms…

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