Net gains, November - December 2005
A service for Members, designed to direct you towards major web sites that will be of value to your company. Only a small proportion of useful links can be listed in the Bulletin. For more links, select Information & know-how from the top of the screen then Links to other sites.
The American Ceramics Society offers information about the organisation and its activities. There are tables of contents from their publication Ceramic Bulletin, a searchable archive of tables of contents with abstracts from Journal of the American Ceramic Society and details of their other publications. Fact Sheets are available on ceramics in aerospace, automobiles, electronics, medicine, consumer products, fibre optics, military applications and the environment, though they are not easy to find. Links are given to ceramic properties databases.
www.acers.org/
The above site also gives access to: Ceramic Source Online which supplies details of equipment and materials used to manufacture advanced and traditional ceramics. American Ceramic Society members, paid subscribers and registered visitors may access 1,000 products and services and 2,600 vendor companies. Members and subscribers also have access to more information on companies, identifying product manufacturers, obtaining contact information for companies and product sourcing in the local area.
www.ceramicsource.org/
The Society of Glass Technology gives details of obtaining membership of the organisation. It also includes a conference diary, publications details and contents pages for the major journals, and a searchable index back to the early 1900s. A list of consultants is included.
www.societyofglasstechnology.org.uk
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), Ceramics Industry Division is a section of the IOM3 website encompassing all professional, technical and educational aspects of the broad ceramics community. It includes latest news of the Ceramics Division of IOM3; Ceramics related events; an interesting set of foresight drivers for the ceramics sector, giving the business drivers, issues and technology and innovation needs for each driver; the division's annual report and lists of members of the constituent committees of the division.
www.iom3.org/divisions/ceramics/index.htm
Technical Ceramics Information Centre (Informationszentrum Technische Keramik) offers basic information on events in the ceramics industry and producers of ceramics in Germany, and gives details of ceramic materials, including a classification of technical ceramics materials to ENV 12212. There seem to be two methods of accessing some information, so some time spent working around the different levels of the site, especially rapidly clicking on the coloured 'trade user information' button would pay dividends.
www.keramverband.de/eng/
Ceramic Industry is the online journal published by Business News Publishing Co., which describes itself as the 'global voice of ceramic manufacturing' to promote interests, growth and progress of the ceramic, glass and brick industries. It includes up-to-date coverage of news, issues and trends, and aims to offer solutions to manufacturing problems and a forum for information exchange. No registration is required to access the journal.
www.ceramicindustry.com/
The Ceramics Web Book is produced by the Ceramics Division of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), USA. It offers evaluated data in the form of a high-temperature superconducting materials database, a structural ceramics database and property data summaries for advanced materials; a guide to data centres, sources, tools and resources, including links to software and other resources.
www.ceramics.nist.gov/webbook/webbook.htm
