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Atraverda Ltd - The Abertillery-based company has developed a lighter ceramic material to replace the traditional heavier lead components in lead acid batteries making them lighter and greener.
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Smart Sonic Receiver technology transmits clear audio quality to the user through vibrations in the handset's display screen - a technology based on Kyocera's proprietary advanced ceramic technology.
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ClearOhm material is based on metal nano-wires, not a ceramic like ITO.
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
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The Stoke area is still regarded as a world-leader in ceramic manufacturing and some of the world's best known toilet manufacturers are based in the area, including Twyford, Armitage Shanks and Doulton.
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Helyar expects a 10%-15% shortage of 300mm wafers in the second quarter, with a more than 20% shortfall in BT-based substrates, with additional shortages of hard-drives, oscillators, multi-layer ceramic capacitors and other parts.
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