Ceramic Tech Today

SLAC lab gains $21.8M in new funding

By / August 10, 2009

Last week, I had a post on the DOE’s awarding of $327 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act monies going to various federal labs. Now, thanks to a press…

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Turning 1: Changes coming to this blog

By / August 10, 2009

In a few days, readers will notice a major redesign of this space – and a renaming! Ceramic Tech Weekly started out as a weekly email newsletter from The American…

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Nigerian ceramics market said to be valued at $327M

By / August 8, 2009

Patrick Sonny Aigborkhaebholo Irabor, Nigeria’s deputy director in charge of solid minerals, ceramics and electroplating technologies at Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, thinks there is a big opportunity in…

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Industry headlines

By / August 8, 2009

India Resources to supply 2 ceramic disc filters to Hindustan Copper The ceramic disc filter for copper concentrate dewatering was supplied by Nuclear Industry Yantai Tong Xing Industrial Company Limited…

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NYC Smart Grid solar pilot program

By / August 7, 2009

According to a company press release, Consolidated Edison Co. plans to launch a $6 million, 18-month Smart Grid pilot program in northwest Queens that will test how various technologies support…

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ARRA to fund megawatt energy storage flywheels

By / August 7, 2009

According to a press release, Launchpoint Technologies received American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop advanced control techniques for the operation of high-speed, high-efficiency, energy storage flywheels. Energy storage…

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Making silicon slicing more efficient

By / August 7, 2009

When you are in the solar cell business (polycrystalline silicon) or semiconductor business (monocrystalline), silicon ingots and boules – the source of your vital wafers – can be a considerable…

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Ohio offering $27M for nascent advanced energy projects

By / August 6, 2009

Via the state-run Third Frontier technology development program, the Ohio Department of Development has announced that it is seeking $27 million worth of “requests for proposals” for its 2010 fiscal…

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Saint-Gobain ceramics facility lays off 70 workers

By / August 6, 2009

The Charleston Gazette reports that seventy workers at a ceramics factory in Buckhannon, W.Va., will lose their jobs by the end of September. The Saint-Gobain ceramics facility announced that poor…

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DOE announces battery grants

By / August 5, 2009

There should be great joy in the United States’ materials engineering community today. The DOE just released an awardee list of advanced battery manufacturing, deployment, testing and recycling projects it…

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