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KRAHN Ceramics Expands Production Capacities

KRAHN Ceramics is expanding its production capacities at its facility in Hamburg/DE. Responding to increasing demand and a surge in new projects, the specialist in distribution and processing of ceramic...

RATH Starts up Production Plant for the Manufacture of Innovative Oxide Ceramic Continuous Fibers at the Mönchengladbach Site

The international refractory manufacturer RATH has been developing continuous oxide ceramic fibers as part of the HORIZON EUROPE project InVECOF (Innovative Value Chains for European Ceramic Oxide Fibers) for several...

Developed by RATH, Produced in the EU: Innovative Continuous Oxide Ceramic Fibers for Industrial Applications

Based on 35 years of experience in the development and production of high-temperature ceramic fibers, RATH (AT) is always exploring innovative ways to offer new product solutions to the industry....

Imerys Advanced Ceramics: New Pilot Plant for Synthetic Minerals

The Imerys Technology Center in Lyon/FR, which specialises, amongst other things, in high-temperature materials, has benefited since spring 2022 from an investment of more than EUR 1 million for a...

LOFT® Stoneware – Low Firing Temperature Stoneware The MCS®’s Stoneware Body for 1100 °C Firing Temperature Characterisation and Properties Evaluation

Energy efficiency, sustainability, circular economy, decarbonization are mega trends increasingly impactingall energy intensive industries, including the ceramics industry. This has led MCS® to invest in a newResearch Development and Innovation...

Alteo: Investment in New High-Performance Products

In January 2021, Alteo became a member of the United Mining Supply Group (UMS). Since then, variousinvestments have been made. One result of these is a new product range for...

RECOSIC: Environment-Friendly, High-Grade SiC by Recycling

For more than 100 years, the raw material SiC has been synthesized for industrial applications by meansof the very energy-intensive Acheson process. For the synthesis of 1 t material, around...

Almatis Expands its Calcined Aluminas into a Higher Purity Range

In this article, the authors discuss the need for improved purity levels of specialty alumina for emergingand developing technical applications. They discuss the impact of the overall purity level of...

STEPHAN SCHMIDT KG: 75 Years of Expertise in Clay

STEPHAN SCHMIDT KG was founded by Stephan Schmidt in 1947, and today employs around 200people in seven companies in Germany and other countries. It supplies speciality clays processed to highqualityproducts...

High-End Al2O3 Ceramics: Easy to Get with New Ready-to-Press Material from Nabaltec

There are two main reasons for using alumina in ceramic applications. First, there are technical reasons, when certain material characteristics are needed and second, there are commercial considerations, aiming to...