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2012-07-25

News from the glass and refractory worlds Industry

• Ardagh Group is to buy (from Wayzata Investment Partners) US-based Anchor Glass Container Corp. for $880 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of August 2012. Anchor, the third largest glass container manufacturer in the US, produces 5.…
2012-07-19

Ceramics in Electronics Industry

Ceramics Make Electronic Devices Possible The nearly $2-trillion global electronics industry would not exist without ceramics. Ceramics’ wide range of electrical properties including insulating, semi-conducting, superconducting, piezoelectric …
2012-07-17

Ceradyne’s ESK Ceramics Acquires Interest in Chemtrix, B.V. Industry

COSTA MESA, CA--(Marketwire - June 01, 2012) - Ceradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDN) announced that its German-based subsidiary, ESK Ceramics, GmbH & Co., has acquired a minority interest in Chemtrix, based in the Netherlands, for an undisclosed amount. …
2012-07-10

LiNbO3-silica glass ceramics: a promising alternative for frequency conversion? Industry

Second-order nonlinear optical properties are fundamental for applications such as frequency conversions. Glass ceramics are of great interest for the development of optical elements with meter-scale dimensions for high power laser facilities. …
2012-07-05

How to knit silicon carbide ceramic fibers Industry

Woven silicon carbide ceramic fibers. Credit: Christian Heiss et al.; MaterialsViews/Wiley. Textile structures made from silicon carbide fibers are very interesting for manufacturing of fiber reinforced high temperature resistant ceramic matri…