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06-05-2022 | Ceramics | News | Article
Overcoming the Limitations of Glass Production
Glass objects which glow in the dark or glass containers that heat up and cool down – this seems to completely contradict our everyday experience of what glass can do. And yet, it is now within reach.
05-05-2022 | Ceramics | News | Article
Joint Venture with a Focus on Circular Economy
RHI Magnesita and Horn & Co. combine their recycling activities. By taking this step, they increase the production, use and supply of secondary raw materials for the refractories industry.
05-05-2022 | Ceramics | News | Article
Perovskite Solar Modules with a Marble Look
KIT researchers have developed colored solar cells made of inexpensive perovskite semiconductor material that can be integrated into building facades or roofs. They imitate the optics of known building materials.
09-02-2022 | Ceramics | News | Article
Inauguration of a New Tunnel Kiln
The commissioning of the new tunnel kiln at the Urmitz plant of RHI Magnesita goes hand in hand with the digital expansion of the site and the creation of new jobs for the region.
09-02-2022 | Ceramic Technology | News | Article
A Question of Stability
Perovskites are the great hope for the solar modules of the future. Researchers have now presented a variant that is characterized by particularly high durability.
07-02-2022 | Ceramic Technology | News | Article
Change in Management at Ceramtec
As of January 1, 2022, a change has taken place in Ceramtec Group's management: Horst Garbrecht is now President Industrial. He succeeds Richard Boulter, who has decided to leave the company.
10-11-2021 | Ceramics | News | Article
Every Gram Counts
A new process allows hollow spheres to be produced from metallic and ceramic materials with diameters of one millimeter and above. Compared with a solid sphere, weight savings of up to 90 percent can be achieved.
05-11-2021 | Ceramics | News | Article
Additive Manufacturing under Martian Gravity
Together with the Clausthal University of Technology, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing is researching the possibility of using additive manufacturing to produce components, spare parts or tools in weightlessness.
03-11-2021 | Ceramics | News | Article
Quality Control of Advanced Ceramics
High-performance ceramics provide key components – but only if they are defect-free. To detect rejects at an early stage, researchers at Fraunhofer IKTS have developed an in-line inspection method based on laser speckle photometry.
11-08-2021 | Ceramics | News | Article
Nutec Bickley to Install Elevator Kiln
Nutec Bickley is busy in its Ceramics Business Unit constructing a specialist, repeat-order kiln. The contract was awarded by a major US manufacturer in the energy field.
11-08-2021 | Ceramics | News | Article
Heavy Charge Against Water Germs
Removing pathogens from drinking water is especially difficult when the germs are too tiny to be caught by conventional filters. Researchers at Empa and Eawag are developing new materials and processes to free water from pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses.