Current Tenants at CCIC

The Nanotechnology Pilot Plant, located in Ceramic Corridor Innovation Center, includes nearly 500 square feet of a Class 10,000 clean room environment, a suite of Keko manufacturing equipment for making multilayer ceramics, and microwave sintering equipment.

The facility was funded by a $ 1.8 M grant made to the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology (CACT) by the NYS Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). In collaboration with colleagues at Clarkson University and industry partners, researchers at Alfred University will use the facility to consolidate nanosized ceramic powders into multi-layer and monolithic ceramics, while retaining the enhanced properties associated with nanostructured materials.

For more information, contact Dr. Vasantha Amarakoon.

Photonics Advanced Research Center

The Photonics Advanced Research Center is being set up to aid the photonics industry in New York State through education and research. Its objectives include training operations personnel and educating students from multiple disciplines via involvement in project work. Research goals include the design and fabrication of optical fibers and planar optical circuitry. The current status is that equipment such as lathes, draw towers and optical characterization benches is being installed. Labs and support facilities are being constructed.

Recognition
• Supported by New York State Office of Science Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR)
• Equipment donations from Corning Incorporated and OFS Optics, GA
• Industrial mentoring by IBM, NY

CeraGen LLC

CeraGen provides technical and business consulting and product development to companies in the ceramics and related materials fields. Current activities are focused in the areas of biomedical/health, defense/homeland security, and fuel cell industries.

Areas of expertise include powder manufacturing and characterization, materials fabrication processes including sintering and hot isostatic pressing. The company has developed fine grained alumina, zirconia and silicon nitride products, as well as advanced refractories for molten metal handling. CeraGen is located at the Ceramic Corridor Innovation Center (CCIC) in Alfred, NY. The company is an affiliate member of the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology (CACT) at NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

For more information, please contact Paul Johnson, at 585-738-6527 or by e-mail: pjohns1@rochester.rr.com

Community Glass Inc. - Analytical Lab - Chemistry Division

Utilizing an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) and dilution by mass techniques, our chemists are experts and are able to analyze greater than 60 elements and/or oxides.
Analyses are performed with accuracies and precision uncommonly found in the field of spectroscopy. This capability allows us to provide more dependable compositional information for the materials we analyze. In addition to these facts, throughout an analysis, we incorporate NIST traceable, certified references to assure the ICP produces accurate and precise data. Our testing capablities include metal and metal alloy analysis.

Preforms
CGI machines its own tooling for the manufacture of preforms. These preforms are customer specified requiring precision within 0.0001 of an inch. Currently, CGI is producing various types of glass, such as Corning Incorporated's 9010 and 9013, as well as many other sealing glasses all retaining unique properties.

Tubing
We have tubing production capabilities meeting OD and ID specifications to 0.001 of an inch

Industrial Liquid Filtration

CerCor Separations, a division of Corning Incorporated’s Environmental Products Division, makes and markets high temperature ceramic gas filters. Typical applications for these filters include pollution control devices for power plants and incinerators plus applications such as the recovery of valuable products from the high temperature gas streams used to process minerals and ores.

The starting materials for CerCor are porous ceramic honeycomb substrates similar to those used for automobile catalytic converters. CerCor applies an impermeable ceramic membrane to the walls of the honeycomb substrate and then reconfigures the honeycomb channels by plugging alternative cells to convert the honeycomb into an absolute filter. Relative to alternative filtration media, the more rugged CerCor filter offers higher operating temperature capabilities in a more compact package.

The importance of silicon on glass

Trends in mobile devices

• Compact form factors
• Higher resolution
• Converged functionality
• Full motion video
• Longer battery lifetimes

SiOG Features & Benefits

Features

• Very high and uniform electron mobility
• Very low and uniform threshold voltage

Benefits

• Very High uniformity, very low power OLED display
• High resolution, low power LCD display
• Multi-function, input devices integrated into LCD backplanes
• “System on glass”

Project to date

• Strong intellectual property
• Demonstrated high-mobility TFTs using production fab equipment
• With customers in 2007:
  • Demonstrating functional LCD and OLED displays on SiOG
  • Demonstrating capability to make value-added displays

Please follow this link for more technologies information or click on the CSL Materials logo to visit the CSL Materials website.

Electrical Power worX (EPX) was established in 2007 with the mandate to develop Energy Management solutions. These systems are specifically designed to promote energy conservation and renewable, clean energy. Electrical Power worX is developing Energy Management products for multiple applications that include: Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles, Mass Transit, Renewable Energy, Residential and large-scale Utilities.

In addition to application development, Electrical Power worX is researching potential new technologies for energy storage elements, and have recognized the potential benefits that ceramic-based elements can provide. Ceramic-based elements have demonstrated excellent ability to improve energy density thereby reducing the cost per kWh, while maintaining the power density required for a wide variety of Energy Management applications.

Providing systems-level solutions in concert with developing state of the industry core technologies allows Electrical

Power worX to respond to any customer’s needs. If you would like to discuss your Energy Management needs, please contact Electrical Power worX at (607) 382-2130.

IPM – Three Phase Division

Intelligent Power Management Corp. incorporated in 2004, has begun operations and developed a product that offers a major solution to the pressing need to provide true variable speed motor control for electric motors of all sizes and configurations whether they be in the United States or international markets. Variable speed motor control translates to the reality of enormous energy savings (30% to 60%, to end users) and holds the promise of relieving the strain on energy producers to meet the ever increasing demands for electricity in our economy by doing more with the same or less energy outputs.

Intelligent Power Management (IPM), has created a Three Phase Division located in Painted Post New York to develop, assemble; and market a new 3 Phase motor control device that is capable of saving significant energy. The new product will be created by, and manufactured using proven IPM technology. Our Sales Division will market and sell this new product in the commercial and industrial HVAC energy management market.

For more information, please contact Rocco Irish,at 607-936-3772, by e-mail: ipm@telcove.net or visit their web site at: www.ipm-corporation.com

Nupix is a start up company whose goal is to develop and market fiber-based flat panel displays. The company was formed March 2000 as a renaming of Moore Vision, formed August 1998. Over the past 5 years the founder of Nupix, Chad Moore, President has generated an extensive patent portfolio around the fiber-based display technology. Thus far over 20 patents have been filled around the fiber-based display technology, of which 11 have been granted, and several more are in the works.
The fiber-based display technology will revolutionize the large flat panel display industry and Nupix, with its patent position and display knowledge, is positioned to lead this revolution. The key advantage of the fiber-based displays is in the technology and stems mainly from simplifying the manufacturing process steps and reducing the number of steps by one half. This simplification in the manufacturing process provides a 50% manufacturing cost savings over current display technologies. Furthermore, the equipment to manufacture the fiber-based displays has a much lower cost basis and only requires 10% of the start-up capital of conventional displays ($40 million vs. $400 million+).

The fiber-based technology can be used to make very large high-resolution displays and displays targeting many different markets. Our technology uniquely positions us to become a major supplier and developer of large size specialty displays. In addition, the manufacturing cost advantages of the fiber-based structure will position us to become a major contender in the developing, high volume, mandated digital HDTV market as both a producer of displays and licensor of technology.

Santanoni Glass and Ceramics Technology Division: Santanoni Glass and Ceramics, Inc. (Santanoni) produces both technical and consumer products and carries out contract work relative to product and process development. The company was recently awarded a $100,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Award from the National Science Foundation for development of unique sensors for potentially toxic bio-molecules. Other projects include new low-temperature glasses for coatings, improved chemically machineable glass for electronic and micro-fluidic devices, a commercial strengthening process for glass containers, and photosensitive glasses in which one can develop photographic quality image (person, design) from a digital photograph. Much of the research is carried out in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University.

Commercial Division: Santanoni produces a line of ceramics cremation urns and memorials, as well as a line of gift, collectible, and recognition awards. A unique feature of the cremation urns and memorials is the ability to include a portion of the cremains as part of the raw materials used in producing the memorial. Using technology referred to above, Santanoni will soon have the ability to produce a permanent photograph of the deceased within the glaze of the urn or as part of a separate memorial. The technology will also be employed in its other commercial products.

For more information, please contact Dr. William LaCourse,at 607-587-9507, by e-mail: lacourse@alfred.edu or visit their web site at: www.santanoni.com

Home of the Ionex®, IonKlad® , and IonArmor™ chemically strengthened glass

Saxon Glass Technologies, Inc. is an advanced glass technology company, which specializes in the chemical strengthening of glassware perfecting two ion exchange processes, Ionex® and IonKlad®, that far exceed the strength of tempered glass competitors. The production is backed by sophisticated quality control and sampling. The primary products are a chemically strengthened pharmaceutical cartridge for auto-injector application as emergency antidote to prevent violent allergic reaction to bee-sting, peanuts and other foods; and glass tubes for high speed centrifugal separation of serum. Both products are well-accepted by the market. In collaboration with the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, the company has been developing extremely high strength glass for display windows in mobile electronic devices and for army vehicle IonArmor™ windshield applications.

For more information, please contact Saxon Glass at 607-587-9630, visit their web site at: saxonglass.com

Xylon is a leader in the development of advanced zirconia and alumina ceramic products. Xylon’s R&D efforts have led them into new areas of structural ceramics and ceramic alloy powder production. Developments of aerospace applications and contracts for R&D in the biomedical industry have placed Xylon into rapid-growth markets for high-tech ceramics.

Xylon produces zirconia and alumina based products for joint implantation of hips, knees and shoulders. The company is the first U.S. producer of USFDA registered zirconia femoral heads for the biomedical orthopedic implant industry. Xylon products are also used for gas turbine applications, petrochemical pumps and material handling equipment, and ultra-high purity ceramic alloy powders.

For more information, please contact Xylon . at 607-587-519, by e-mail: rtechnologies@stny.rr.com.

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