NEACerS Corporate Sponsors, RESOURCE GUIDE to providers of ceramic products, technology and services

NEACerS Corporate Sponsors for 2012
CORPORATE RESEARCH
	Osram Sylvania, Inc. 71 Cherry Hill Drive Beverly, MA 01915-1068 Tel: 978-750-1696 Fax: 978-750-1795 E-mail: Jason.Montaner@sylvania.com Research development and manufacturing of glass and poly-crystalline ceramics for lighting and other precision materials applications. Web Site: www.sylvania.com Contact: Jason Montaner
	Raytheon Company 350 Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810 Tel: 978.470.5681 Fax: 978.470.9003 E-mail: c_scott_nordahl@raytheon.com As part of the Mechanical Engineering Directorate of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Materials Engineering provides a wide range of technical, engineering and lab capabilities and services in all disciplines falling under the umbrella of materials science. Supporting these technical areas is a full range of analytical capability including: chemical, mechanical, and electrical and environmental analysis and test. Web Site: www.raytheon.com Contact: C. Scott Nordahl
DRYING / FIRING / MELTING
	Centorr Vacuum Industries, Inc. 55 Northeastern Blvd., Nashua, NH 03062-3126 Tel: 603 595-7233 Fax: 603 595-9220 E-mail: skr@centorr.com Manufacturers of vacuum and controlled atmosphere sintering furnaces for operation from -300C to 3000C and pressure levels from 10-9 torr to 1500 psig. Complete systems available in laboratory and production sizes. Designed for operation in vacuum, Ar, N2, and H2 for co-firing, pressure sintering, hot pressing, reaction bonding, metal injection molding, fiber optics, crystal pulling, heat treating, and brazing. Process evaluation and testing available in our Applied Technology Center. Web Site: www.centorr.com Contact: Scott K. Robinson
	Oxy-Gon Industries, Inc. 42 Old Route 28, P.O. Box 40, Epsom, NH 03234 Tel: 603/736-8422 Fax: 603/736-8734 E-mail: sales@oxy-gon.com Oxy-Gon specializes in quality high temperature, high vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces for the research industry for nearly all applications with supplemental emphasis in manufacturing. Additional products include fiber draw furnaces, gas purification units and tungsten/molybdenum mesh or weave heating elements. Web Site: www.oxy-gon.com Contact: William C. Rogers, Sales and Marketing Manager
FABRICATING / FINISHING / MATERIALS PREPARATION
	Centerline Technologies 577 Main Street, Suite 270, Hudson, MA 01749 Tel: 978-568-1330 Fax: 978-568-1334 E-mail: hugh@centerlinetech-usa.com Centerline Technologies capabilities include lapping, polishing, laser machining, diamond sawing, edge/diamond machining, tumbling and a filled via planarity process. Web Site: www.centerlinetech-usa.com. Contact: Hugh Muffoletto
	Laser Process Mfg., Inc., 2 Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA 01960 Tel: 978-531-6003 Fax: 978-532-8882 E-mail: lpm@laserprocessmfg.com Precision laser cutting, drilling, scribing, marking and etching on ceramics, ALN and printed circuit board. LPM is also a laser cutting shop for metals, plastics, wood, and composites. Web Site: www.laserprocessmfg.com Contact: Lynn O’Malley
FINISHED CERAMIC PRODUCTS
	Advanced Glass and Ceramics, Inc.108 Valley Hill Drive - Holden MA - 01520 Tel: 1.508.829.9885 Mobile: 1.508.954.0900 Fax: 1.508.829.4530 E-mail: landry@porousglass.com Advanced Glass and Ceramics specializes in the machining of porous materials: glasses(Vycor 7930 and Pyrex), ceramics and metals. We serve scientists and engineers in over 50 countries who are developing new technologies, products and applications. The markets we service are diverse: military, medical, electronics, space and oil exploration, environmental, pharmacuetical, biotechnology. We market reference electrodes used in ph meters and porous ceramic vacuum chucks for the electronics industry. Web Site: www.porousglass.com Contact: Charles Landry
	Ceramco, Inc. 1467 East Main Street PO Box 300, Center Conway, NH 03813-0300 Tel: 603-447-2090 Fax: 603-447-3906 E-mail: sales@ceramcoceramics.com OEM manufacturer of ceramic components for the instrumentation, aerospace, welding/torch, laser, marine/shipbuilding, and heat treat industries. Low pressure injection molding and CNC grinding enables production of components in alumina, zirconia, mullite, and other oxides. Stock fasteners in alumina size 0-80 to ⅜-16 and zirconia 2-56 to ¼-20 up to 3” in length. Metric sizes are also available. Web Site: www.ceramcoceramics.com Contact: Mr. Thomas Henriksen
	Ferro-Ceramic Grinding, Inc. 247 Water Street, Wakefield, MA 01880 Tel: 800-282-1833 Fax: 781-246-1429 E-mail: sales@ferroceramic.com Technical ceramic component supplier specializing in BN, Al2O3, quartz, Macor, SiC, ferrites, ZrO2 and related materials. Using innovative machining techniques has enabled the company to provide competitive pricing from prototype to production quantities for over 37 years. Web Site: www.ferroceramic.com Contact: Costa Sideridis
	International Ceramic Engineering 235 Brooks Street, Worcester, MA 01606 Tel: 508-853-4700 Fax: 508-852-4101 E-mail: ahiggins@intlceramics.com ICE manufactures and fabricates advanced ceramics and ceramic components such as insulators, provides engineering support, specializes in post-fire machining and grinding to tight tolerances. Materials: aluminum oxide, zirconia, boron nitride, silicon carbide, steatite, silicon nitride and lava. Web Site: www.intlceramics.com Contact: Andy Higgins
	Prematech Advanced Ceramics, 160 Goddard Memorial Drive, Worcester, MA 01603-1260 Tel: 508-791-9549 Fax: 508-793-9814 Email: info@prematechac.com PremaTech continues the tradition, started by Chand Kare in 1980, of providing contract-machining service to advanced ceramic manufacturers. With advanced technology, PremaTech provides support from the simplest slicing and dicing to the most sophisticated 4 and 5 axis machining of advanced ceramic components in prototype to production quantity. Web site: www.prematechac.com Contact: Ellen Costello
	Superior Technical Ceramics Corp. 600 Industrial Park Road, St. Albans, VT 05478 Tel: 802-527-7726 Fax: 802-527-1181 E-mail: sales@superiortechceramics.com An American manufacturer well known for oxide ceramic component manufacturing capabilities – including raw material fabrication, most known powder compaction methods, and unfired & diamond machining. Elaborate use of CNC work centers enables STC to lead the industry in providing the highest quality, cost-effective components for the aerospace, electronic instrumentation, wear & abrasion, thermal protection industries, pump, seal & dispensing systems, and laser system manufacturers. Web Site: www.superiortechceramics.com and www.ceramics.net Contact: John F. Redman, Applications Engineer 185 Chestnut St., Wrentham, MA 02093 e-mail: johnfredman@comcast.net telephones: 508-384-1522 office; 802-999-8360 cell; 802-713-1005 fax
OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS
	CeraNova Corporation 85 Hayes Memorial Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752 Tel: 508-460-0300 Fax: 508-460-0325 E-mail: info@ceranova.com CeraNova develops and commercializes novel ceramic technologies for both structural and functional applications, including ceramic superconductors, piezoelectric ceramic fiber, and transparent ceramics. Technical expertise at CeraNova includes extrusion, tape casting, directional solidification, and general ceramics processing including mixing, forming and firing. Inquiries on proprietary contract research or development programs and toll services are welcome. Web site: www.ceranova.com Contact: Marina Pascucci
	GT Solar (Formerly Crystal Systems) 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970 Tel: 978-745-0088 Fax: 978-744-5059 E-mail: fschmid@crystalsystems.com HEM production and sale of sapphire, titanium-doped sapphire and Multi-crystalline silicon for optical and semiconductor equipment markets. Development of FAST slicing technology and sale of FAST machines for high production slicing of sapphire, silicon carbide and specialty materials. Web Site: www.crystalsystems.com Contact: Fred Schmid
	Semiconductor Enclosures, Inc. 85 Parker St. Newburyport, MA 01950 Tel: 978-462-1880 Fax: 978-462-6886 E-mail: cmosher@semiconductorenclosures.com Semiconductor Enclosures, Inc. is a powder to package manufacturer of ceramic based microelectronic packages for high reliability diodes and other high power/high frequency devices. SEI manufactures its own thick films and substrate materials for military, medical, automotive and other markets. SEI also assists with Materials and Process development. Web Site: www.semiconductorenclosures.com Contact: Chris Mosher
	Stellar Industries Corp. 50 Howe Avenue Millbury, MA 01527 Tel: 508-865-1668 Fax: 508-865-5016 E-mail: snooky@stellarind.com A Fabricator of Laser Diode / Photodetector Submounts using materials such as AlN, BeO, and Al203. Specializing in vapor deposited GoldTin solders on thick film and thin film substrates. Stellar manufactures precise machined ceramic mounts with wrap-around metalizations. Stellar also fabricates Direct Bonded Copper Substrates for Power and Thermal Management. Web Site: www.stellarind.com Contact: John B. Snook
PIEZOELECTRICS
	EBL Products Inc. 91 Prestige Park Circle, East Hartford, CT 06108-1918 Tel: 860-290-3737 Fax: 860-291-2533 E-mail: eblpzt.paul@sbcglobal.net Manufacturer and precision machining of piezoceramics. Web site: www.eblproducts.com Contact: Paul Stokes
	Materials Systems Inc. 543 Great Road, Littleton, MA 01460 Tel: 978-486-0404 x203 Fax: 978-486-0706 E-mail: ideas@matsysinc.com. Materials Systems develops and manufactures advanced materials and transducers, including injection-molded net shape piezoelectric ceramics, ceramic-polymer piezocomposite materials, underwater and ultrasonic transducers, IR windows and transparent armor. Web Site: www.matsysinc.com Contact: Rick Foster
	INSTRUMENTS / TESTING EQUIPMENT
	Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. 44 Hunt Street, Watertown, MA 02472 Tel: 617-668-6800 Fax: 617-926-9980 E-mail: info@rmdinc.com Radiation Monitoring Devices is a diversified technology company providing innovative research and products to a wide range of markets and disciplines. RMD has been recognized as a leader in the fields of radiation detector materials, nuclear instrumentation, custom detector applications and nondestructive test equipment. The material science group focuses on the advancement of innovative materials and sensor configurations. Development activities include high performance polycrystalline and single crystal scintillators and Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes (LA-APD). Web Site: www.rmdinc.com Contact: Gary Baldoni
	Thinky USA, Inc. 23151 Verdugo Drive Suite 107, Laguna Hills, CA 92653 Tel: (949) 768-9001 Fax: (949) 768-9003 E-mail: info@thinky-usa.com Local Contact for New England: Janus Tech Sales, Tel: 978-808-8097 Local E-mail: billkyle@janustechsales.com Local Web Site: www.janustechsales.com The THINKY mixer, with or without vacuum, mixes, disperses, mills and degases materials in seconds to minutes in a jar, beaker, bottle, syringe or cartridge. The benefits are speed, uniform dispersion, deaeration, no impeller, and ease of use. THINKY mixer capacities range from a few grams to 20 kg of material depending upon the model and the container. THINKY mixers are used in a wide range of applications by 18,000 different customers in the world. Web Site: www.thinky.co.jp/us/ Contact: Bill Kyle
	CSM-Instruments, Inc. 197 1st Avenue, Suite 120, Needham MA 02494 (USA) Tel: 781-444-2250 Fax: 781-444-2251 E-mail: usinfo@csm-instruments.com E-mail: Dr Nicholas X. Randall , Vice-President Business Development CSM Instruments has been leader in the development of instruments for advanced materials testing for over thirty years. Our products include Hardness Testers, Scratch Testers, and Tribometers of varying load ranges. 3D-imaging options are available with the ConScan or AFM objective. Additionally, we have a thorough sample testing service laboratory. Web Site: www.csm-instruments.com Contact: Elisabeth C. Belo, Marketing & Events Coordinator
	NETZSCH Instruments, Inc. 37 North Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803 Tel: 781-272-5353 x112 Fax: 781-272-5225 E-mail: d.shepard@nib.netzsch.us Manufacturer of Thermal Analysis and Thermophysical Properties Measurement Instruments. Our specialties include high temperature simultaneous TGA-DSC instruments, dilatometers and thermal conductivity instruments. Contract Testing services are also available. Web Site: www.netzsch.com Contact: David Shepard
ANALYTICAL SERVICES
	Geller MicroAnalytical Laboratory Inc. 426 Boston Street (Rt 1), Topsfield MA 01983-1216 Tel: 978 887-7000 Fax: 978 887-6671 E-mail: sales@gellermicro.com. Geller MicroAnalytical Laboratory, certified to ISO-9001 and ISO-17025, offers products and analytical services to the technical community. Products include NIST traceable magnification reference standards, reference materials for surface analysis, SEM X-ray and microprobe techniques, high vacuum desiccators, metallographic equipment, and computer control digital imaging systems for SEMs and microprobes. Analytical services include Auger electron spectroscopy, SEM, X-ray, Electron Microprobe, profilometry, and metallography. Web Site: www.gellermicro.com Contact: Joseph Geller
	For further information on adding your company here, please contact: John F. Redman, Corporate Sponsorships Chair, NEACerS and Sales Engineer, Superior Tech Ceramics 185 Chestnut St. Wrentham, MA 02093 johnfredman@comcast.net