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[May 2007]
SGL Group Signs Cooperation Agreement With ESK
The SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany) has just signed an agreement with the manufacturer of high performance ceramics ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co KG (Kempten/Allgäu, Germany), a 100% subsidiary of the US company Ceradyne Inc, to develop and produce silicon carbide block heat exchangers jointly for use in the chemical, pharmaceutical, steel processing and fine chemical industry. This joint undertaking will benefit from the material, technology and market expertise of both companies.
Under the terms of the agreement ESK will produce blocks made from the ceramic material EKasic® silicon carbide (SSIC) for the SGL Group. The outstanding feature of silicon carbide is its high temperature, corrosion and oxidation resistance. Outstanding heat conductivity as well as high mechanical stability also feature among its advantages. This means that it will be possible to use heat exchangers from the SGL Group, Business Line Process Technology, for industrial processes with heavily corrosive and oxidising media as well as in applications with high purity requirements.
The aim behind this inter-company cooperation is to expand the SGL Group's global market share in the anti-corrosion protection segment. Heat exchangers are used to condense, cool, heat, vaporise and absorb acids and corrosive gases.
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