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Meetings & expositions Calendar SGCD DECO 2001 Show and Technical Seminar, Arlington, Va., Sept. 30– Oct. 3 (tel. 202-728-4132, fax 202-728-4133, Internet www.sgcd .org) High Temperature Ceramic Composite Conference, Munich, Germany, Oct. 1–3 (tel. 49-69-7917-747, fax 49-69-7917-733, E-mail info@htcmc.org) 47th Int’l Brick Plant Operators Forum, Clemson, S.C., Oct. 1–3 (tel. 864-656-1094 fax 864-656-1095, E-mail brick@clemson.edu, Internet www.brickandtile.org) S Int’l Workshop on Flow and Fracture of Advanced Glasses, Rennes, France, Oct. 21–25 (tel. 33-2-9928-2685, fax 33-2-9928-1600, E-mail vincent.keryvin@univ-rennes1.fr, Internet www.larmaur.univ -rennes1.fr/ffag) 6th Int’l Symposium on Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis, Haifa, Israel, Oct. 14–18 (Internet www.ism.ac.ru/events /shs2001/ shs2001.html) S Int’l Workshop on Flow and Fracture of Advanced Glasses, Rennes, France, Oct. 21–25 (tel. 33-2-9928-2685, fax 33-2-9928-1600, E-mail vincent.keryvin@univ-rennes1.fr, Internet www.larmaur.univ -rennes1.fr/ffag) CICC-2, 2nd China Int’l Conference on High-Performance Ceramics, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Nov. 3–6 (Internet www.chimeb. edu.cn/meeting_e.htm) UNITECR 2001 Congress, 7th Biennial Worldwide Conference on Refractories, Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Hotel, Cancun, Mexico, November 4–8 (contact Gerardo Cortina, tel. 52-5-872-1005, fax 52- 5-872-2541, E-mail gcortina@possehlmex.com, Internet www . unitecr-alafar2001.com) 59th Electric Furnace Conference, Phoenix, Nov. 11–14 (tel. 724-776- 1535 ext. 1, fax 724-776-0430, E-mail custserv@iss.org, Internet www.iss.org) 2002 2nd Int’l Colloquium on Modeling of Glass, Forming and Temping, Valenciennes, France, Jan. 23–25, 2002 (Internet www.univ -valenciennes.fr) IREFCON, 5th India Int’l Refractory Congress, Bhubaneswar, India, Feb. 7–8, 2002 (tel. 91-33-240-8357, fax 91-33-240-8357, E-mail irmandia @ hotmail.com, Internet www.irmaindia.org) S Qualicer 2002, 7th World Congress on Ceramic Tile Quality, Castellón, Spain, March 3–6, 2002 (tel. 34-964-35-65-00, fax 34-964-35-65-10, E-mail qualicer@camaracs.es, Internet www.qualicer.org) Fuel Cell 2002, Int’l Conference and Exhibition, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 1–5, 2002 (tel. 41-56-496-7292, fax 41-56-496-4412, E-mail info@ efcf.com, Internet www.efcf.com) ICOM 2002 The Int’l Congress on Membranes and Mem brane Processes, Toulouse, France, July 7–12, 2002 (Internet www .ems. cict.fr) 2nd Trade Show and Symposium for the Ceramic Industry, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, July 11–12, 2002 (tel. 528-369-6441, fax 528-369-6443, E-mail soceram@prodigy.net.mx) S Tecnargilla 2002, Int’l Exhibition of Technology and Supplies for the Ceramic and Brick Industries, Rimini Expo Center, Rimini, Italy, Oct 1–5, 2002 (tel. 039-0541-711-711, fax 039-0541-786-686, Internet www.tecnargilla.it) 12 The American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 80, No. 2
Brick Business General Shale Products LLC (aka General Shale Brick) maintains one of the most widely respected laboratories in the North American brick industry at Kingsport, Tenn. The impact of the laboratory is seen in standards for brick products, research affecting reduction of production costs and research related to new products. General Shale takes a unique corporate approach to its research and product development. A corporate research committee, consisting of the president and the vice presidents of sales, finance, and engineering and research, meets regularly with the director of research and the ceramic engineer to make key decisions. According to Bob O’Quinn, director of research, the laboratory can cite several important contributions to the company. One of the foremost is the development of user-friendly coal firing, which involved the selection of coal preparation systems, the development of distribution methods and the engineering of burners to handle solid fuel. The work resulted in a patent on the coal feeder and injector system. General Shale practices coal firing at 12 plants in a total of 15 tunnel kilns. Other notable successes have been the development of coatings, precise control of colorants and accelerated quality-control procedures. One unusual capability in the Kingsport laboratory is a large-capacity General Shale’s Kingsport <strong>Laboratory</strong> Denis Brosnan, Contributing Editor Overview of General Shale’s Research <strong>Laboratory</strong> Year 1954 started Key Continuing durability testing activities Plant support Product (color and texture) development Analysis of “in-wall” problems Training Key Joe Edwards, vice president of engineering and research technical Bob O’Quinn, director of research personnel John Brown, manager of process research Farrell Long, manager of material and product testing Ron Bacon, manager of electronic technicians Kevin Ham, ceramic engineer (13 employees total) Key All ASTM properties for block and brick capabilities Raw material evaluations/test firing (shuttle kiln) Freeze-thaw capability for 108 sample sets Coal testing Electrical laboratory Building 5750 ft 2 (534 m 2) size Plants 16 brick plants, four block plants and one lightweight served aggregate plant freezer used in durability testing. One hundred and eight 5-brick specimen sets can be tested simultaneously in the freezer. According to O’Quinn, the Kingsport facility conducts an annual laboratory school for newly hired production supervisors. College students frequently serve as interns during the summer months. O’Quinn urges college students to pay particular attention to raw material and processing fundamentals. As he sees increasing a u t o m a t i o n c o m i n g into the industry, a good fundamental Garvey Bright, a 28-year employee, runs a sulfur test in General Shale’s laboratory. background and long hours may be required to make the automatic systems work in a clay plant. The expansion of the laboratory since its beginnings is due, in part, to Joe Edwards, vice president of engineering and research, and Farrell Long, manager of material and product testing. Both joined the company in 1961, and both have recently been honored for their contributions to the brick industry. Joe Edwards received a doctor of laws degree from Clemson University in December 2000, for his contributions to the industry and his work in establishing the Bishop Ceramic Lab at Clemson University. (See also p 12 in the August 2000 issue and p 33 in this issue of Ceramic Bulletin.) Edwards also is a long-time leader of ASTM’s task group on durability. His article, “Relation Between Physical Properties and Durability of Commercially Marketed Brick” (see pp 1071–75 in the December 1977 issue), remains the basis for classifying brick durability, according to the standards. Farrell Long is the initial recipient of ASTM’s Gilbert C. Robinson Memorial Award. Presented in December 2000, the award recognizes his long-time contributions in standards development. (See p 34 in this issue.) It is fair to say that General Shale is a leader in the brick industry, in part, because of the Kingsport laboratory. n www.ceramicbulletin.org • February 2001 13
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