Ceramic Tech Today

Elegant and simple—stretching during spinodal decomposition aligns porosity in glass

By Eileen De Guire / October 19, 2012

Different steps of the deforming procedure: (A) initial glass block, (B) sawn glass plate, (C) and (D) stretched glass plates. Credit: Barascu; JACerS, Wiley. Stretch forming is a manufacturing process…

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Glass conference in Sicily to focus on energy, information; student scholarships available

By / October 19, 2012

The International Materials Institute for New Functionalities in Glass, in association with the Engineering Conferences International, is sponsoring a conference Jan. 6–11, 2013, under the theme of “Functional Glasses: Properties and…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / October 18, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: Zircoa: A corporate model for “Veterans Opportunity to Work” legislation Recenctly, Zircoa Inc. of Solon, Ohio, had the distinct honor of a visit from…

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“The Magic of Ceramics,” plus new books on glass ceramics, composites and Ceramic Transactions volumes ready for shipping

By Eileen De Guire / October 17, 2012

If you describe yourself as a ceramic engineer or ceramic scientist, you are willing to be different, and you probably have had the experience of explaining to lay folk (like…

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US-based ceramics manufacturing organization AACCM celebrates 20th anniversary


By / October 17, 2012

The Association of American Ceramic Component Manufacturers was established 20 years ago to create unity among ceramic manufacturing companies located in the United States to present a common front for…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / October 16, 2012

• Anchor Glass Containers, part of Ardagh Group, is to receive 6.6 megawatts in low-cost electricity, which will allow the company to retain 340 jobs and invest approximately $37.2 million…

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Scenes (pt. 3) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12

By / October 16, 2012

Here is my last batch of photos from Pittsburgh last week. We will be uploading more pictures on the ACerS homepage, too, in the coming days. Dawn A. Bonnell, from…

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$20M in public-private advanced manufacturing grants announced

By / October 16, 2012

Credit: NIST. Readers may recall that the Obama administration’s Material Genome Initiative is actually just a piece of the broader Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative. Several days ago, we reported how…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / October 16, 2012

Check ’em out: Kyocera’s new M-Six Shell Mill double-sided CNC cutting tool. Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial Ceramics…

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Meaningful hand-waving: Purdue group demos design tool that tracks hand motions to create shapes

By Eileen De Guire / October 16, 2012

Purdue doctoral student, Vinayak, demonstrates Handy-Potter to create a three-dimensional object. He is represented by a stick figure in the orthogonal rendering of his hand motions. Credit: Purdue University. One…

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