A new IR partnership
10 August, 2012
As I mentioned last week this August certainly seems to be a time at Ceramicx for ongoing celebrations. The latest for us sees the ink just drying on a new Enterprise Ireland-sponsored Innovation Partnership project. This is our third such IP project within three years. We are grateful indeed for the continuing support. We know that the fruit of the work will benefit all parties in the research/industrial environment and supply chain. Our new academic partner is Trinity College Dublin and the team in its Engineering Department led by Dr Tony Robinson. The partnership project is of 18 months duration and, needless to say, the scientific scope will involve Infrared Heating. 
Our focus here represents a departure from the industrial work which forms the current bulk of our portfolio. The applied research will move Ceramicx further into its interests in the built human environment and will inform the development of the proprietary products in the Ceramicx Comfort IR range. Our brief will be to create a detailed and scientific matrix of the effects of Infrared Heating on humans in the built infrared environment. As I have written elsewhere, IR heating has the potential to create enormous savings in energy useage and cost throughout the world. Among other things, IR heating is a targetted heat source. This feature alone enables very precise design for human comfort in the built environment. Among the project milestones set are the design and construction of a test rig to demonstrate these qualities and the potential for development. This new equipment will be built and ready to exhibit in Dusseldorf in October 2013 at the world’s leading and triennial plastics exhibition, K 2013. It’s a time timetable but we can make it. Next week we will share some thoughts and news on our continuous improvement programmes at Ceramicx; the measurement of our performance – very important to our sponsors and investors - and what it means to be truly world-class.
10 August, 2012
As I mentioned last week this August certainly seems to be a time at Ceramicx for ongoing celebrations. The latest for us sees the ink just drying on a new Enterprise Ireland-sponsored Innovation Partnership project. This is our third such IP project within three years. We are grateful indeed for the continuing support. We know that the fruit of the work will benefit all parties in the research/industrial environment and supply chain. Our new academic partner is Trinity College Dublin and the team in its Engineering Department led by Dr Tony Robinson. The partnership project is of 18 months duration and, needless to say, the scientific scope will involve Infrared Heating. Our focus here represents a departure from the industrial work which forms the current bulk of our portfolio. The applied research will move Ceramicx further into its interests in the built human environment and will inform the development of the proprietary products in the Ceramicx Comfort IR range. Our brief will be to create a detailed and scientific matrix of the effects of Infrared Heating on humans in the built infrared environment. As I have written elsewhere, IR heating has the potential to create enormous savings in energy useage and cost throughout the world. Among other things, IR heating is a targetted heat source. This feature alone enables very precise design for human comfort in the built environment. Among the project milestones set are the design and construction of a test rig to demonstrate these qualities and the potential for development. This new equipment will be built and ready to exhibit in Dusseldorf in October 2013 at the world’s leading and triennial plastics exhibition, K 2013. It’s a time timetable but we can make it. Next week we will share some thoughts and news on our continuous improvement programmes at Ceramicx; the measurement of our performance – very important to our sponsors and investors - and what it means to be truly world-class.
