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[March 2002]
New President/CEO and New Products for SCI
Superconductive Components Inc (Columbus, OH, USA) has announced that Dan Rooney has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Founder and Chairman Dr Edward Funk said: "We are very pleased to have Dan join the Company. His experiences in the ceramics industry combined with a proven record of profitable sales growth are integral elements to Superconductive Components' future success. I look forward to remaining active as Chairman and working with Dan as he deems appropriate to continue building the company".Prior to joining SCI, Dan was General Manager for Johnson Matthey, Color and Coatings Division, Structural Ceramics Sector North America. His responsibilities there included full financial accountability and production for a USA manufacturing facility which produced finely milled powder, as well as for Structural Ceramics a distributor for materials imported from four affiliated companies in Europe. These products were used for industrial ceramic applications.
New product areas for SCI in recent times include high density YBCO targets, ceramic powders and the 'Joining of Levitators' initiative.
The YBCO targets were developed for clients who insist on the highest possible density for laser ablation. Typical target densities range, for YBCO, from 5.2 to 5.65 grammes per cubic centimetre, depending on the size of the target. With SCI's new densification process, it is able to routinely produce targets which are 5.74 grammes per cubic centimetre and higher.
In the past two years, SCI has successfully been producing very fine ceramic powders such as cerium gadolinium oxide, lanthanum strontium manganese, lanthanum strontium cobalt oxide, lanthanum strontium iron cobalt oxide and many others. These powders are typically submicron in size and are certified with X-ray diffraction.
The trademarked 'Joining of Levitators' is for making very large structures. As part of SCI's work with NASA, it has developed a technique to make high quality superconductive joints between the large domains which result in the company's seeded melt texturing process.
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