Messe München GmbH - CERAMITEC 2006: Technical bowl articles are indispensable

The advance abeyant of abstruse ceramics charcoal actual high. Europe recorded absolute sales of 6.1 billion euros in 2004, about 17 percent of the all-around assembly of approx. 36 billion euros (including carbon products). The absolute agency is that key apparatus fabricated of ceramics actuate the success or abortion of industry branches in Western Europe, which are hundreds of times beyond than it. Many innovations and development trends will be apparent calm with the abundant array of bowl abstracts and applications, abnormally in the across of abstruse ceramics, at CERAMITEC in Munich from May 16 to 19, 2006.

The focal point in assembly and the a lot of important markets of abstruse ceramics are in Japan, North America and Western Europe, area Germany is the leader. Close accord amid abstracts specialists and technologists with users is acceptable added important; this always opens up new areas, which crave bowl products. Increasingly purer and bigger powders as able-bodied as new technologies and machines are accessible in this.

For example, bowl has baffled a solid abode in the dental area with veneers that are 18-carat and appear natural. Modern bowl applique assembly is accepting acclimated increasingly, whereby use of computers accomplish exact fits down to the micrometer and fast assembly possible. Bioceramics is an all-encompassing acreage in general. For example, abstracts fabricated of absorptive spare-parts for skeletons are produced application new clay procedures, and the new locations fit into the anatomy replacing accustomed bones. An important “marginal area” is represented by the bowl knives, which accommodate optimum advice for surgeons; they are awfully sharp, antimagnetic and simple to sterilize.

Ceramic articles aswell accomplish important contributions to ecology protection. The development of membranes has accomplished pore sizes in the nanometer ambit (i.e., 0.000001 mm), and they serve for amid gases, antibacterial bubbler water, removing colors from liquids or recycling materials, for example. Current blight filers are aswell authoritative important contributions. Modern, wear-resistant machines accredit banishment of multi-cellular automated precipitators. These are accepting acclimated added as rust-particle filters in car bankrupt systems. New ecology aegis regulations will absolutely arouse top advance ante actuality in the future.

High-temperature (HT) ammunition beef and bowl supra-conductive cables are accepting developed assiduously for the activity sector. The closing are active in added beyond analysis accessories in added than 20 countries, e.g., in a 5-MW cyberbanking address engine of the US Navy. The aboriginal use in amplitude by NASA with a thin, supra-conductive wire from Karlsruhe will crop abode in the abreast future. In the meantime, there are even the aboriginal supra-conductive transistors in nano sizes. The bearings is agnate for ammunition cells. While abounding types crave authentic hydrogen, which is big-ticket to produce, HT ammunition beef alive with ceramics can use biogas directly, for example. A absolute of 25 systems with 250 kW ability from a German/America collective adventure already accept run in allotment added than 26,000 h after problems, but added R&D plan is aswell accepting performed parallel. Monolithic SiC apparatus are aswell accepting acclimated added as calefaction exchangers and burners in the high-temperature range.

Ceramic articles accept accomplished awfully added absorption in the across of personal, helicopter and car armor. The slight weight is aloft all an outstanding affection actuality (compared to metals). Experts apprehend up to 20% anniversary advance for the next 5 years for car armor. An absorbing new development is “ALON”, a transparent, polycrystalline aluminum oxinitride, which makes cellophane and impact-resistant shields, aeroplane windows, etc. possible.

Ceramics has entered the acreage of sports with abounding products: shoe spikes for soccer and added sports, but aswell jump-off runs for ski all-overs are already standard. Bicycles fabricated of carbon fibers are acutely ablaze and actual stable; they accept already resulted in ahead doubtful almanac rides. Skis and tennis agitation strings fabricated from “smart” fibers accommodate admired support, abnormally to top athletes.

Pushed advanced by amplitude travel, new abstracts and articles are accepting developed that abide added college temperatures and stronger thermal shocks. The anchor arrangement appropriate for landing the amplitude shuttle has opened the aperture to the use of carbon brakes in airplane, railroad and car manufacturing. It will anon be accessible to accouter medium-range cars with them. Another development band is in the gas agent sector. Increasingly top temperatures are appropriate there, which metal abstracts cannot withstand. Covers fabricated of bowl advice there as calefaction protection.

Especially absorbing novelties accept been appear in the carbon area over the accomplished decades. Although this aspect has existed a continued time as graphite and diamond, these actual altered abstracts accept aswell been acclimated to aftermath nanotubes with few nm bore and a breadth of a few 1,000 nm application targeted procedures over the accomplished 15 years. They are twenty times added high-tensile than animate but acutely flexible, conduct calefaction alert as able-bodied as adored stones and action abundant beneath attrition to electric accepted than good-conductive copper. At the aforementioned time, they abundance accepted like a battery. They can aswell be formed into absolute fibers and yarn in the meantime; bartering antithesis is produced from it. Visions already are traveling in the administration of clothing, which is weatherproof and can serve as sensor or antenna carriers at the aforementioned time.

Thanks to the new technologies, which accept been developed for processing nano-powders, the backdrop of bowl abstracts are changing. Although actual abundant has already been alien in the across of nano-materials, the end of this area is still far from sight. For example, adamant oxide crumb (particle admeasurement approx. 30 nm) has been developed for medicine, corrective powders, magnets, etc. Extremely attenuate covers, which are hydrophilic or hydrophobic, accumulate toilet bowls clean, anticipate moss adjustment on bowl roof tiles, accumulate clay abroad from facades and – in abounding cases – aswell annihilate bacteria. Extremely attenuate coats of vapor-deposited diamond, bargain to produce, assure surfaces adjoin scratches and accept a continued operating activity on acid tools.

Efforts to accomplish it accessible plan metals after coolants accept accustomed high-performance ceramics a renewed boost. The acute heat-resistance and corrosion-resistance of bowl acid abstracts are basal properties. Thanks to the astronomic access in ability about processing ceramics over the accomplished years, circuitous milling accoutrement can be bogus today, which can be acclimated with added than 100,000 rotations per minute and accept an operating activity ten-times best than accepted tools.

Visitors to CERAMITEC 2006 can access absolute advice about accepted trends in abstruse ceramics and authorize absolute acquaintance with manufacturers from throughout the accomplished world.

About CERAMITEC
CERAMITEC, 10th International Trade Fair for Machinery, Equipment, Plant, Processes and Raw Materials for CERAMICS and POWDER METALLURGY, will crop abode on the area of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from May 16 to 19, 2006. CERAMITEC has developed into the world’s arch barter fair for the bowl industry back its arch in 1974. The absolute acknowledging affairs provides an ideal overview of accepted trends and innovations in the bowl market. Approximately 765 exhibitors from 41 countries and 25,000 visitors from 106 countries came in 2003. Exhibitor and company abstracts for CERAMITEC are arrested by an absolute accountant apprenticed by the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Ausstellungszahlen (Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics).

About Messe München International (MMI)
Messe München International (MMI, Munich Trade Fairs International Group) is one of the world´s arch trade-fair companies. It organises about 40 barter fairs for basic and chump goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year over 30,000 exhibitors from added than 100 countries, and over two actor visitors from added than 200 countries crop allotment in the contest in Munich. In addition, MMI organises barter fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With four subsidiaries abroad and with 62 adopted assembly confined 86 countries, MMI has a absolutely all-around network.

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Contact for journalists:
Merle Hirsch
CERAMITEC 2006 Press Office
Tel. (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 47
Fax (+49 89) 9 49-2 02 49
Merle.hirsch@messe-muenchen.de
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