The refractory community met at UNITECR 2017 in Santiago, Chile, the last week of September. Raw material prices and trends, as well as advances in technology, were at the forefront.
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Acres has a lot of exciting meetings in the works. Keep your eye on Ceramic Tech Today, the website, and the ACerS Bulletin for all the latest details.
Read MoreThe connection between military success and technology is the stuff of many history PhD dissertations. And, for many of those technological triumphs, materials have been the focal point—from hafting stone spearheads onto rods, heat treating of steels, crafting stainless steel armor suits, or building today’s highly sophisticated weapons and protection systems. Today, ceramic materials are…
Read MoreScientists, engineers and even business people in the field of ceramics like to describe ceramics as an “enabling” material. What we typically mean is that often ceramic materials serve as a platform for other materials or must be combined or used in some way with other materials, thereby enabling the production of an end-use product…
Read MoreUNITECR 2011 October 30 – November 2, 2011 Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan The Technical Association of Refractories in Japan will host UNITECR in Kyoto.
Read MoreOctober 13-16, 2009 Pestana Bahia Hotel Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Visit UNITECR 2009 to learn more about 11th Biennial Worldwide Conference on Refractories. Event History UNITECR is a biennial international conference that is conducted by one of its four “Founding Member Organizations” in odd-number years. The official oversight body is the UNITECR International Executive Board (IEB),…
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