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30 Jan 2012
Sooner or later in business one will stumble over the fact that “an idea doesn’t care who owns it.” Opportunity, conflict and plenty of work for lawyers can all follow on from there.
This free principle of ideas applies of[…]
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20 Jan 2012
One of the most pleasing things in our fifth edition of HeatWorks magazine now doing the rounds is the feature article on some of our recent investments at Ceramicx.
More than ever, today’s global supply chain requires expert and qualified[…]
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16 Jan 2012
It’s always a pleasure to spend a little time with freshly completed pieces of work; a new oven system for a thermoforming client; a new process or way of organising an aspect of production; a new conference paper or company[…]
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5 Jan 2012
Already it’s an interesting year: The Ceramicx exhibition stand has just been confirmed for Chinaplas 2012, April 18-21. As befits our Irish status, we have been located in the international hall at the mid point between the UK and the[…]
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19 Dec 2011
Our fifth edition of HeatWorks magazine is now on its way to the printers – and in the New Year, readers will be treated to another groundbreaking roster of technical and commercial topics in infrared heating.
On the home front,[…]
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6 Dec 2011
Readers of this blog will have surely noticed our fondness here at Ceramicx for good things arriving in threes.
‘Machinery, manpower and materials’ has lately given us another handy three-fold reckoner for our manufacturing needs. And our new Hurco CNC[…]
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29 Nov 2011
Here at Ceramicx we are again looking to publishing our fifth issue of HeatWorks magazine. The enthusiasm for the publication – inside and outside the company remains as keen as ever and will be reflected in the dozen or so[…]
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17 Nov 2011
In the life of a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) nothing counts more than its people: Indeed an SME company is many times more likely to be aware of this fact and to be actively engaged in making sure that[…]
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4 Nov 2011
Our Autumn season of exhibitions continues: No sooner have our Friedr Freek friends in Germany finished telling the world about Ceramicx and infrared heating in plastics manufacture than yet another market opens up.
Last week our partners in Turkey, Ser[…]
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27 Oct 2011
As Autumn gets into its stride so too does our new Innovation Partnership project – funded by Enterprise Ireland – and partnering Ceramicx with the University of Limerick.
Our interviewing process for the project team is going well. Map making[…]
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21 Oct 2011
In these days of uncertain global economics those of us in business and in manufacturing surely owe it to each another to keep our feet firmly on the ground and to search out and communicate all the positives wherever they[…]
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14 Oct 2011
I read something entertaining recently about ‘your best company salesman….He may not be a closer on many or any deals – but he never leaves his post. He’s always available on a 365; 24/7 basis. He’s always very well turned[…]
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10 Oct 2011
As the new term gets well into its stride, the autumn edition of our Heat Works magazine lands on desks. We have our usual mix of the topical, the technical and the infrared fundamentals, as we preach ‘em here at[…]
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4 Oct 2011
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Ceramicx has joined forces with Guangzhou Cerami Automatic Equipment Ltd (GCAE) and is now supplying China with all the best in infrared heating solutions.
GCAE stands for Guangzhou Cerami Automatic Equipment and[…]
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2 Sep 2011
Good things come in threes – as I never tire of saying. Radiation itself manifests three primary properties that all need some fundamental understanding in order to apply the technology properly.
Another mantra getting a lot of air time at[…]
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16 Aug 2011
As many of you will know, outside of our main industrial markets, Ceramicx also has a number of infrared products and ongoing projects aimed mainly at the consuming public.
Our technologies include infrared for indoor and outside space heating; infrared[…]
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16 Aug 2011
The USA this week may be reeling from its exhausting political and economic wranglings but our friends and associates at Weco International go from strength to strength in servicing that country’s large and sophisticated thermoforming industry.
The land that invented[…]
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8 Aug 2011
In all walks of life and business, online shopping has become the smart thing to do.
Ceramicx is no exception – and UK and Irish customers are the first to be able to order parts and components over the Internet[…]
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19 Jul 2011
Although the need to take a breath is frequent, Ceramicx continues to welcome in the continual change and innovation that has been our keynote all through this year.
At the beginning of July, for example, we opened our doors to[…]
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15 Jul 2011
In each day there remains some aspect of our ongoing news diet that has the capacity – even in these hardened times – to shock us.
We know that most of the daily media feed is often not worth the[…]
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8 Jul 2011
The past few months have seen Ceramicx engineers and designers working overtime in order to satisfy demand for new designs and new uses of infrared heating.
I guess that it’s mostly all our own fault – seeing as we asked[…]
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14 Jun 2011
Following a successful spell on the national stage last month, and a swell in infrared heating orders of all kinds Ceramicx is now expanding its team of engineers and designers. The moment is just right for joining a small and[…]
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24 May 2011
Last Friday in Dublin, Ceramicx was honoured to be one of three manufacturers helping to launch the Irish Government’s new centres in manufacturing and technology – the ICMR and the I2E2 research centre. Here below is an edited slice of[…]
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13 May 2011
In business we are always looking for that elusive essence of successful activity. ‘If I could bottle this or that I would be a rich man’ so the saying goes.
On more pedestrian levels, the successful enterprise is indeed trying[…]
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5 May 2011
The recent tragic nature of events in Japan have once again touched off the sensitivities of the world to issues of nuclear energy, nuclear power and to nuclear radiation.
The fragility of man’s built environment has once again been contrasted[…]
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28 Apr 2011
It pains me to say it, but when it comes to the new low-energy agenda most manufacturers throughout the world still do not know their arse from their elbow and, furthermore, cannot see their own plain interest in the matter.[…]
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5 Apr 2011
At Ceramicx Infrared heaters, we currently have a vacancy in our engineering and electronics division where we require assistance in building and designing infrared systems including control systems and original equipment incorporating these.
If you or someone you know has[…]
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28 Jan 2011
Ceramicx has long been campaigning for the world’s plastics thermoforming industry to increase its profile and market share – based on the growing quality and cost-effectiveness of its work. Says Ceramicx Founder Frank Wilson, ‘with every month, opportunity grows for[…]
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7 Jan 2011
International heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is determined to make 2011 the year that plastics thermoformers embrace their own best interests and get more out of their production – for less energy and cost.
Frank Wilson M.D. of Ceramicx[…]
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29 Dec 2010
Leading international infrared heating specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has appointed Elmec Heaters, India to be the distributor for all Ceramicx products in India and to represent the company at next month’s Indian plastics industry exhibition (Plastivision, Mumbai, Jan 20-24).
Frank[…]
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22 Dec 2010
Plasteurasia Exhibition
Leading international infrared heating specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has made a successful debut with its new Turkish partner Ser Rezistans at Turkey’s annual Plasteurasia plastics exhibition this month, December 3-5.
Now in its twentieth year, Plasteurasia continues to[…]
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9 Dec 2010
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is preparing to appoint a network of distributors and resellers across the Middle East in order to support a marketing expansion in the region through 2011.
Director and Founder Frank Wilson says[…]
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30 Nov 2010
Lynda und Amanda
We at Ceramicx would like to welcome the new staff, who have joined the team this year. First we would like to welcome Amanda Murphy a recent Business Administration graduate from CIT. Amanda is apprenticed to Gráinne[…]
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24 Nov 2010
Frank Wilson - Founder and managing director of Ceramicx
It gives me great pleasure to share with you that for the past few months Ceramicx has been working with several blue chip manufacturing companies in the service of Ireland’s new[…]
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15 Nov 2010
The Ceramicx team (right) and Freek team (left) on their joint stand together at the K 2010 plastics exhibition in Dusseldorf this Autumn
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx enjoyed its best ever K plastics exhibition in Dusseldorf[…]
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3 Nov 2010
Infrared heat at K-Show 2010
Tadhg Whooley (red shirt) left explains some of the finer points of infrared heating of plastics to visiting delegation to the Ceramicx stand at the K show. The testing rig has been a central[…]
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20 Oct 2010
Leading international infrared heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has signed off its new product quality control and assurance project, conducted in partnership this year with specialist engineers from the University of Limerick.
Founder and director Frank Wilson believes that[…]
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13 Oct 2010
Ceramicx Infrared Testing Rig
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has this week completed an infrared heating test rig that will be able to immediately characterise the process heat performance for plastic sheet and film materials. The infrared[…]
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4 Oct 2010
We hear a lot these days about waste and about litter – about over-packaging and about the plastic materials that are supposed to be destroying our environment.
As with most things, you just have to scratch the situation just a[…]
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21 Sep 2010
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has this month produced and launched both a new company video and also a new company magazine entitled Heat Works.
The new Ceramicx video was shot in High Definition on location at[…]
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8 Sep 2010
Heating solutions for plastic thermoformers will be central to the Ceramicx exhibition at K 2010
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has finalised its exhibition details with German heating experts Freek for their joint exhibition stand in Hall[…]
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26 Aug 2010
A view of the new Weco/Ceramicx oven platen at santa fe custom skylights
Leading US building products manufacturer Santa Fe Custom Skylights has been reaping the benefit of a successful changeover to infrared-heating thanks to expertise supplied by Weco International[…]
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24 Aug 2010
Ceramicx warehouse
Ceramicx upon returning from their summer holiday have undertaken a major reorientation of its finished goods warehouse. This reorientation will gain for Ceramicx an additional 40+ pallet spaces in the same warehouse area.
This additional warehouse space will[…]
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16 Aug 2010
Ossian Productions were on-site in Ceramicx Ireland this week to film the promotional short film which will be displayed on our stand at the forth coming k show 2010 with our German distributors Freek Company.
Neil and Ian were on-site[…]
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11 Aug 2010
Fresan press machine
Ceramicx in June has purchased a new Fresan 20 Tonne Eccentric press with a decoiler. This press was purchased from Rafela distributors in Poland. This press was purchased to improve productivity in the face of increasing demand[…]
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6 Aug 2010
Ceramicx has this month begun a review of the Quartz production line to look for further efficiencies and possibilities for improvement. This improvement is being undertaken by Mr. Andrew Lynch of Andona Services Ltd and is being part funded by[…]
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21 Jul 2010
Infrared specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has been working with German heating expert Friedr Freek in providing leading manufacturer, BM Anlagenbau, with some leading edge production processes in order to make its innovative range of coated concrete and stone products.
Infrared[…]
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15 Jun 2010
Ceramicx has this week just completed new online technology that is set to offer its customers 24/7 online 3D viewing of all its infrared heating elements, heat platens and ovens.
The project has deployed the Rhino 3D software programmes and[…]
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2 Jun 2010
International infrared heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is working on a surge of demand received over the course of the Chinaplas 2010 exhibition held in Shanghai over April 19-21.
Frank Wilson, Ceramicx MD pictured here outside Chinaplas 2010 with[…]
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27 May 2010
The world of communications is changing. No longer do we reply on print media, newspapers magazines, television and radio news. To that must be added the social media of facebook and twitter. To that must also be added the websites[…]
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17 May 2010
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is partnering with German heating experts Freek to exhibit at the prestigious triennial plastics industry exhibition in Dusseldorf this Autumn. Both companies will share an exhibition space at the K show 2010,[…]
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6 May 2010
1. Infrared energy can be harmful – wrong.
Infrared energy is naturally occurring from the sun, travels to the earth in wavelengths and is absorbed by all objects. Every object emits and absorbs infrared naturally without harmful effects.
2. Infrared[…]
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26 Apr 2010
International heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is on a mission this year to show the plastics thermoforming industry that a simple upgrade to an infrared heating system can increase profit margin by up to 40%. The infrared heating upgrade[…]
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13 Apr 2010
2010 without a doubt is Ceramicx’s year. Founder and director Frank Wilson is on a mission that takes him to Korea, Chinaplas, the USA and all other points leading up to the company’s centrerpiece exhibition at the world-renowned K 2010[…]
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24 Mar 2010
International heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is preparing to take its ‘heat work’ expertise to a number of Far Eastern destinations in April, culminating in a two day visit to this year’s Chinaplas, in Shanghai. April 19-22.
Founder and[…]
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19 Mar 2010
I suppose that the plastics industry can be seen the first of that post-war twentieth century phenomenon – a new industry that grows up under your feet in your own lifetime. Microchips, communications have perhaps gotten a bit casual about[…]
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2 Mar 2010
International heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has fulfilled a number of demanding US-based projects in infrared technology and ceramic heaters for US partner WECO International, based in Clio, Michigan.
WECO specialises in the engineering and supply of infrared ovens[…]
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22 Feb 2010
My last piece on successful investment brought up some thoughts on the human consequences of change in the workplace and on the ever-advancing modernity in manufacturing. This is a deep issue. Many social movements have been founded specifically to resist[…]
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8 Feb 2010
You may have lately read in the trade press about our recent capital spend at Ceramicx – in the form of metal forming and milling capabilities; CNC control and software and other ancillary equipment designed to help us keep hold[…]
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28 Jan 2010
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is working with the University of Limerick on new quality assurance and testing technology that will see the company create new markets for its industrial clients and also enable Ceramicx to develop[…]
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26 Jan 2010
In many cases, as a platen or oven system starts to discolour and degrade under use – with dirt and process plastic and other materials – so the general reflectivity of the system will be compromised. This is itself should[…]
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25 Jan 2010
10 Tips for the K Show 2010
The K 2010 exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany this autumn will be the event for the international plastics industry. K stands for Kunststoffe – the German word for plastics – and since the 1960’s[…]
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21 Jan 2010
New Ceramicx Logo
There hopefully comes a time for every business when both reputation and sales begin to gather pace; feed off each other, and go farther and wider than ever planned or imagined.
Word of mouth, good salesmanship and[…]
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5 Jan 2010
As Europe continues to enjoy its coldest snap for a while, Frank Wilson, founder of leading infrared heating supplier, Ceramicx, offers some thoughts on the art of heat work in plastic packaging manufacturing – and how to put the best[…]
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21 Dec 2009
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has won a number of new orders this month for bespoke heating systems, based upon its new machining and metal fabricating facilities.
The new business at Ceramicx ranges from infrared heaters for[…]
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7 Dec 2009
Part of my mission in life is to preach the essence of Infrared heating. And it always begins with and involves a ‘Holy Trinity’ of three factors – absorption, transmission and radiation.
The misunderstanding of these three principles can lead[…]
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2 Dec 2009
In many cases, as a platen or oven system starts to discolour and degrade under use – with dirt and process plastic and other materials – so the general reflectivity of the system will be compromised. This is itself should[…]
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21 Nov 2009
In most things, preparation is everything. And so it never ceases to amaze me why many manufacturers risk a sensitive and costly production process without taking the time to start it off right.
One area commonly neglected in the thermoforming[…]
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16 Nov 2009
Leading international heating systems specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx is investing in an extensive programme of new branding and promotion for its next generation of infra red and quartz heating elements and systems.
Managing Director Frank Wilson says that ‘by the[…]
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6 Nov 2009
Effective heating depends on a variety of variables and conditions – including everything that the weatherman can throw at us, day to day.
Highly humid conditions, for example, bring a high level of unwanted interference into the business of infrared[…]
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29 Oct 2009
Everyone in manufacturing – and publishing – knows that a deadline is a deadline. And when that deadline is over, anything after the event, is a bit of a nuisance – to put it mildly.
Which is why – here[…]
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29 Oct 2009
….once began the poet in his ode to Autumn. Busy people today, however, rarely have the chance to appreciate the passing of this season. Most of us only really know that we’re in it when it comes time to fire[…]
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