Dear Partners,
On behalf of our team, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May 2015 bring you prosperity and welfare, high-profile successes and sincere joy, new feats and accomplishments.
Thank you for being with us this year!
We hope that the year 2014 was successful for you, and that our products were helpful in your business activities.
The INNOVACERA Team
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 price increase supports investment in manufacturing, quality systems, maintenance, environmental compliance, and new product development.
Customers purchasing products on a delivery basis will also see a cost increase due to highly volatile and increasing truck and rail freight rates. Imerys continues to work with its freight partners to minimize this impact as much as possible.
About Imerys
The world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, with €3.7 billion revenue and 15,800 employees in 2013, Imerys transforms a unique range of minerals to deliver essential functions (heat resistance, mechanical strength, conductivity, coverage, barrier effect, etc.) that are essential to its customers’ products and manufacturing processes.
Whether mineral components, functional additives, process enablers or finished products, Imerys’ solutions contribute to the quality of a great number of applications in consumer goods, industrial equipment or construction. Combining expertise, creativity and attentiveness to customers’ needs, the Group’s international teams constantly identify new applications and develop high value-added solutions under a determined approach to responsible development. These strengths enable Imerys to develop through a sound, profitable business model.
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Imerys Ceramics
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Elena Atanasova, 770-645-3705
elena.atanasova@imerys.com
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 parties expect the transaction to close on December 26, 2014. The acquisition provides substantially expanded access to Japanese and other key Asian markets.
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. This includes both the research and optimization of earlier developed processing routes, which improve the productivity and quality of the materials.
The issue contains 18 invited papers prepared by or with participation of the well-recognized ceramic specialists from academia and industry. The manuscripts cover different aspects of ceramic and coating processing, such as: preparation and use of special ceramic powders and precursors materials, colloidal processing, forming routes of different advanced engineering (ceramics, composites, and coatings) for a variety of applications, materials consolidation, studies of the influence of processing on structure and properties of the materials, and large-scale manufacturing. The results of some selected papers have been presented at international conferences, but some papers describe absolutely new results. Some papers cover the extensive studies conducted by the authors for a number of years and even implementation of the materials and processes with the features of industrial experience. The readers can see that the papers presented in this issue were prepared by the authors from different countries of North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and they demonstrate a successful collaboration between the organizations not only from one country, but also from other countries and even continents.
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This review by Nahum Travitzky et al. summarizes recent achievements in the field of processing of ceramic-based materials with complex geometry using the main additive manufacturing technologies.
This review by Cordt Zollfrank et al. shows that the pairing of cellulose and silica produced materials ranging from cellulose-assisted preceramic green bodies via cellulose-silica composite aerogels to biotemplated high-surface and hierarchically nanostructured silica materials.
In this review by Günter Motz* et al. the development of CVD SiC fibers and three generations of polymer derived SiC fibers over the past 50 years are discussed, illustrating the effect of fiber precursor and processing on the microstructure and physical properties of the non-oxide ceramic fibers.
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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-tonne “Rosetta” cometary probe including science experiments, the “Philae” lander – and8 piezoceramic multilayer actuators with a mass of 31.8 g.
© ESA–S. Corvaja
Even at lift-off of the rocket booster 10 years ago, thepiezo actuators built into the “Philae” lander had to withstand the extreme vibrations and thermal shocks before leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. After achieving a near-Earth trajectory around the sun, “Rosetta” carried out several swing-by maneuvers persistently nearing its target: the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
The probe spent part of the journey in hibernation mode – for 957 days in the freezing coldness of space, 660 million kilometers from the sun, only the on-board computer and some heating elements for the scientific payload were provided with energy.
According to plan, “Rosetta” was activated in January 2014 with the “Philae” lander being activated in March. After the meticulous and successful testing of all on-board instruments for their full operability, the probe will continue to close in on the comet from around two million kilometers to an eventual height of 10km. It is here that on 12 November 2014, a world’s-first should take place: “Philae” will detach from “Rosetta” and land on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
© ESA 2001
Both probe and lander will then explore the comet during its active phase together, providing ESA’s scientists with an insight into the chemical and isotopic composition of the early solar system.
One of the instruments that will be used on the comet’s surface is the MIDAS (Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System), a high-resolution atomic force microscope that can image the fine structure of individual dust particles and can even make individual atoms “visible”. MIDAS is to investigate the dust on the comet’s surface, analyze the mineral composition and if possible provide information about the age and journey of the comet.
The piezoceramic multilayer actuators from CeramTec are responsible for guiding the extremely fine measuring needles in the MIDAS instrument: actuator fine positioning of the highly sensitive needles takes place with a precision of 4 millionths of a millimeter. This means that a surface square with side lengths of a maximum of 100µm (= thousandths of a millimeter) will be scanned with a resolution (accuracy) of 4nm (= millionths of a millimeter). 100µm corresponds roughly to the thickness of a sheet of writing paper – 4nm is 25,000 times less.
Piezo actuators are typically used in precise positioning systems, but that is not their only use. PZT actuators are used for precision guidance in many systems, from laboratory technology and car manufacturing to machine engineering. Even if not quite as spectacular as with “Rosetta” and “Philae” – when precision, speed and power are needed, piezoceramic materials offer interesting and reliable solutions when it comes to micro-positioning, valve control, vibration damping or acoustics.
© ESA–AOES Medialab
We will only find out whether the “Rosetta” mission will be a success and if the “Philae” lander can begin its tasks on the 12 November at around 16:00 UTC – this is when the signal confirming the landing should reach the Earth, following a signal propagation delay of 28 minutes and 20 seconds.
© ESA/ATG medialab
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2014 Website Update Online
We are very excited to have finally launched our new website! A few of our goals with the new website were to make it faster, easier to navigate for users, and easier for us to manage/update. And most of all, we wanted to help our clients get to know us better. If you take a look around the new site we think you’ll get a pretty good idea of who we are and what we do as a company. Besides this we would like to share the knowledge about our product(s).
Some of the new features which have been added:
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Innovacera offer some of the world’s largest alumina ceramic components for Industrial,LCD and Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, helping manufacturers achieve greater precision for today’s applications.
Alumina Ceramic Properties
High hardness
Wear resistant
Elextrical insulation
Chemical resistant
Tight tolerance
Temperature resistant
Food compatibility
Oxide ceramic materials we offer: 92%, 96%, 99.3% Alumina and Zirconia.
Innovacera supply a variety of high-purity ceramic materials in Xiamen, China. We are a leading supplier of wear-resistant ceramics, offering solutions for abrasion and corrosion problems.
Our solutions are based on your application parameters: types of abrasion, system and equipment design, operating temperatures and materials. Innovacera’s fine-grained alumina, silicon nitride and zirconia ceramic offer properties that will optimize the solution for any wear application.
Wear-Resistant ceramic linings increase productivity in a variety of typical applications include:
Ash Lines Centrifuges
Pipe Elbows Chutes
Pump Housings Tanks
Cyclones Transitions
Troughs and Flumes Dust Collectors
Spray Driers Chippers and Chip Bins
Hoppers Wash Boxes
Dredging Equipment Silos
Screw Conveyors Classifiers
Wear resisstance solution’s Project
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To solve abrasion problems in your material handling systems, contact the experts at Innovacera mail sales@innovacera.com
Innovacera is a professional supplier of technical ceramic components, has long-term cooperation in the research of ceramic materials with professors or researchers from universities and institutes in China. Innovacera was highly proud to announce that a new ceramic pump, named as valveless ceramic piston pump, has been approved by our customer testing.
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Innovacera ceramic pump has a liquid non-polluting, high precision, long service life…
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Ceramic Piston and Ball Check Valve
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