PUBLICATIONS

MFN Metal Finishing News (Vol. 9, March 2008)

Manufacturing Blasting Nozzles For More Than Fifty Years

ESK first-class quality TETRABOR^® Boron Carbide and EKasic^® Silicon Carbide blast nozzles.

METALL (1-2/2008)

ESK® Titanium Diboride - New Directions in Aluminum Production

ESK has succeeded in pushing the corrosion resistance of titanium diboride (TiB₂) materials quite literally to its limit. The innovation ...

SAE OFF-Highway Engineering

Top products of the year: High-friction coatings

EKagrip^® nickel-diamond coatings from ESK Ceramics, a Ceradyne company, are designed for use at joints in powertrain, transmission, suspension, and drive applications. ...

Source: SAE Off-Highway Engineering December 2007 © 2007 SAE International

WORLD PUMPS (November 2007)

Pumps and gaskets fine-tuned for maximum performance

Handling aggressive chemicals or hot water would be impossible without tailored high-performance materials. This is the only way to provide effective wear protection for pump bearings and gasket systems. Heiko Schulz of ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co. KG explains how components made of EKasic^® silicon carbide (SiC) offer extreme reliability and environmental safety for almost any application - especially true of handling critical process fluids.

cfi ceramic (12/2007)

Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) - Applications from Metallurgy to Cosmetics

 ... A feature of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is its wide and varied range of applications, especially with its valuable combination of many properties that are also interesting individually. From today’s point of view, hexagonal boron nitride is a true allrounder. ...

ALUMINIUM INTERNATIONAL TODAY (May/June 2007)

Boron nitride plus binder - a synonym for higher productivity

Boron nitride in its graphite-like structure is an ideal agent an lubricant which is stable to 900 °C and so is suitable as a release agent and protective coating in the temperature range used for molten light-metal transfer casting.

In-cosmetics 2007 (review magazine)

BORONEIGE® - Boron Nitride by ESK

ESK offers a complete range of BN powders to improve cosmetic formulations to become softer, easier to apply, giving better coverage and adherence to the skin while also re-enforcing products such as lipsticks or pencils. These high purity BN grades are especially created for cosmetic applications and offered at highly attractive prices.

CASTING Plant and Technology (2/2007)

Pouring Process: New generation of boron nitride

With its new generation of boron nitride, ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co. KG in Kempten/Germany supplies the casting industry tailored materials for launders, ladles, dies and crucibles that offer unrivalled protection against aggressive molten aluminium. A critical factor ...