Market Insights
The evolving discipline of demand forecasting can improve competitiveness and control costs
What does the future hold? It is a question that everyone has contemplated at one time or another, and a mystery that has obsessed writers, mystics, philosophers, clerics, astrologers, and others for centuries. For businesses, the question is more than philosophical. Discovering clues to what is next is essential to…
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Sustainable ceramics production: Environmental considerations in tile manufacturing
Ceramics are often regarded as a sustainable material choice thanks to their high durability and chemical stability, which enable a long service life. But ceramics come with environmental baggage in other areas, such as raw material sourcing, processing, and disposal. The specifics of this baggage are unique to each ceramic…
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Financing the responsible supply of energy transition minerals for sustainable development
As the world transitions to sustainable development and the achievement of net-zero emissions by 2050, the demand for specific minerals and metals, such as lithium, nickel, and copper, is surging. These minerals are crucial for the development of batteries, solar panels, and electric vehicles, and therefore are central to clean…
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How do I say this? The underappreciated importance of soft skills in the fields of science and engineering
From the very moment of your birth, you embark on a lifelong exercise in learning. While we sometimes consciously engage in these learning processes—we can all recall the late-night cram sessions before a big test—there are times that an experience only reveals itself as formative many years down the road.…
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Ceramics markets: A BCC Research Outlook
The global market for ceramics was valued at $38.5 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.6% to reach $62.5 billion by the end of 2030. Ceramic materials are inorganic, nonmetallic, crystalline substances formed by shaping and sintering natural or synthetic…
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Semantic data management: A data-centric approach to advanced manufacturing in the ceramics and glass industry
“Ceramic processing is an ancient art but a young applied science.”1 When Alfred University Emeritus Professor of Ceramic Engineering James S. Reed wrote these words in 1995, it had been only 10 years since Engineering Ceramics was established as a formal Division of The American Ceramic Society. Even now, more…
Research Insights
From empiricism to algorithms: The grand challenge of AI-augmented ceramic design
For hundreds of years, humans relied on experience, intuition, and incremental experimentation to drive scientific innovation. This empirical tradition built the foundation of our modern industries. But the landscape has changed. We are now developing materials and technologies that are expected to operate under increasingly extreme conditions, from the radiation-filled…
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Modeling and manufacturing challenges in the ceramics and glass industry
Ceramic and glass materials play critical roles in many aspects of today’s ecosystems, from transportation and architecture to energy storage and medicine, to name a few. While these materials have been used for thousands of years, there is still much we do not understand about them, and thus there are…
