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Imerys Ceramics North America announced today that it will increase prices up to 15% on all of its ball clay and kaolin products manufactured in the United States, effective January 1, 2015, subject to any provisions in individual contracts. The pric…

CoorsTek Inc. and Covalent Materials Corporation, a leading Japanese engineered ceramics manufacturer, today announced that CoorsTek has reached a definitive agreement with the Carlyle Group and Unison Capital Group to acquire Covalent Materials. The…

CLEMSON — Minerals that endure in nature for millions of years are inspiring a Clemson University-led research team to explore whether new materials could be developed to encase nuclear waste for safe storage. Kyle Brinkman works in the Olin Hal…

This recently published Special Issue of Advanced Engineering Materials, guest-edited by Eugene Medvedovski (Calgary, Canada) and Nahum Travitzky (Erlangen, Germany), is dedicated to novel processing of advanced ceramics, composites, and coatings. Th…

Piezoceramic multilayer actuators on board the “Rosetta” space probe On 2 March 2004 at 08:17 CET, an Ariane 5 G+ booster rocket took off from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana. The mission: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The payload: ESA's 3-t…