Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group receives £18.27 million investment

Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group receives £18.27 million investment

Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group receives £18.27 million investment to power forward the region’s capabilities in advanced ceramics for transformative applications The Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group (MICG) has secured £18.27 million in government funding...

Super Hard Ceramics – They Don’t Get Much Tougher

Super Hard Ceramics – They Don’t Get Much Tougher

In the world of technical ceramics, there are two materials that are surpassed only by diamond and cubic boron nitride in terms of hardness – and both are used by Precision Ceramics USA as a base material for a wide range of technical components in an equally wide...

Mast Upgrade makes nuclear fusion commercially viable

Mast Upgrade makes nuclear fusion commercially viable

The commercial use of fusion reactors is moving forward with critical research being carried out in the U.K. at the MAST (mega amp Spherical Tokamak). The research carried out here will be fed directly into the new giant ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental...

Thermally Conductive Ceramics

Thermally Conductive Ceramics

The use of ceramics in high thermal conductivity applications is a growing specialized market. Oxide ceramics are the most common base materials.  But the majority of them are limited to 26-30 W/mK which, when compared to the two most common high thermal conductivity...

Aluminum Nitride (AlN) vs Shapal

Aluminum Nitride (AlN) vs Shapal

Machinable AlN, with the trademark of Shapal Hi-M Soft, is the market leader, with a 30 year pedigree. This tends to be the go to material when you have reached the extremes of temperature, thermal shock, electrical insulation, while having the ability to be machined...