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An exhibition featuring the landscape of Italian industry within the framework of Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation

Abet Laminati — Super-surfaces ALPI — The reinvention of wood Brembo — From 300km/h to 0 in 3.79 seconds Coex — Naturally fireproof Crea Concrete Design — Mono-material landscapes Cressi Sub — First underwater Dainese — Lifesaving design Directa Plus — Cleaning the sea with graphene Eumakers — 3D multi-color Falci — The farmers’ multinational Fizik — 3D-printed biomechanical saddles Fontana — Technological supercar trimming Foscarini — Fishing for lamps GAM — Montessori materials Gemar — U.F.O. Unpolluting Flying Objects Grivel — High Altitude Safety K-Array — New shapes of sound Kong — Inventing the carabiner Landucci — Infinite pasta shapes Limonta — Sustainable textile Magis — Enzymatic industrial management Nonino — High craftsmanship spirit Novamont — Designed to rebirth Omnicos Group — Make-up makers Pedrali — Engineered wood Petroceramics — Superpowers of materials Plastitalia — Admirable underground fittings Springa — Autonomous robotic Tecno Tessile Adler — Safety Cell Terre Davis — Ground Hero Vibram — Down side up
Created in Italy

26 — Petroceramics

Superpowers of materials

Stezzano, Lombardia

http://www.petroceramics.com/

Petroceramics, established in 2003 as a spinoff from the Faculty of Geology at the Università degli Studi in Milan, has been working for over 15 years on a process called Liquid Silicon Infiltration (LSI). It plays a key role in the development and production of carbon ceramics for aerospace and automotive applications and in all those sectors requiring superpower materials usable in extreme conditions and very high temperatures. One of its principal R&D activities concerns a carbo-ceramic for the production of brake discs and friction pad materials, made in collaboration with Brembo.

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On the aerospace research front, Petroceramics has developed with the Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA) a ceramic-based compound registered under the trademark “ISiComp” for the production of some of the thermal protection components in the future ‘reusable’ aerospace vehicle to be deployed in the European Space Agency (ESA) mission scheduled for 2023.

CMC (ceramic matrix composite) is a breakthrough class of materials featuring high temperature oxidation stability in comparison to metals and enhanced toughness relative to monolithic ceramics. Petroceramics has developed innovative and cost-effective manufacturing methods and a unique infiltration process providing high-performing materials that survive at severe environmental conditions. Petroceramics can manufacture different components with thick sections and complicated preform geometries and controllable matrix compositions such as Si, SiC, ZrC, TiC, TiB2 and B4C and mixed carbides.

The idea that has guided the company in recent years is to transform the complexity of nature into technology. In fact we combine geology, the study of rocks and materials, with engineering: the construction of complex and efficient products. We mainly study clays: inorganic materials formed by physical agents such as pressure and temperature: the same agents that affect rocks in nature.

Massimilano Valle, founder and President of Petroceramica

PETROCERAMICS. Materiali compositi a matrice ceramica. Esempi di formatura con geometrie complesse del materiale ISiComp. Tra questi, una piastrella di rivestimento per navicella spaziale in materiale a matrice ceramica ISiComp, primo stadio di produzione corrispondente alla formatura allo stato polimerico. Foto di Max Rommel

↑ PETROCERAMICS. Materiali compositi a matrice ceramica. Esempi di formatura con geometrie complesse del materiale ISiComp. Tra questi, una piastrella di rivestimento per navicella spaziale in materiale a matrice ceramica ISiComp, primo stadio di produzione corrispondente alla formatura allo stato polimerico. Foto di Max Rommel