陶瓷专家CeramTechas announced its annual results for FY 2020, reporting revenue of €553 million for the period.
尽管上一年的收入下降了近11％（6.2亿欧元），但考虑到这一点，该公司认为它的位置良好艰难的市场条件over the past year caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
CeramTec attributes its ability to navigate the impacts of the pandemic to the broad diversification of its business model, which saw the strengthening of the company’s medical division through the acquisition of ceramic dental implant specialistDentalpoint AG, in addition to new product launches in its industrial division.
The company reported a “positive trend” at the beginning of FY 2021 and expects this to continue throughout the year as a result of innovations and upcoming international projects concerning its 3D printing activities.
Ceramtec集团首席执行官Hadi Saleh说：“去年我们的需求发生了强烈的波动。”“与其他行业和公司相比，我们从大流行中出来了。这是我们在业务模型中的多样性和应用范围的回报，我们可以通过这种方式到达多元化的客户群和最终用户市场。”
CeramTec’s FY 2020 results
Having developed, manufactured, and supplied technical ceramics for more than a century, CeramTec is a global leader in this field. The company’s products, of which there are more than 10,000, are used in a range of industries including medical engineering, automotive, electronics, energy, and environmental engineering, and more.
该公司通过其医疗产品和工业部门报告其收入。该公司在2020财年的医疗产品业务的收入为2.302亿欧元，2019财年下跌了11％（2.587亿欧元）。根据Ceramtec的说法，由于大流行期间进行的选修手术减少，收入受到较低级收入和取消订单的延期和推迟的影响。
The company’s industrial business reported €322.5 million revenue in FY 2020, a 10.8 percent decrease on the figure reported in FY 2019 (€361.7 million). The decrease was mainly as a result of lower volumes across most product groups due to lower demand from customers and order cancellations following the Covid-19 outbreak, although CeramTec acknowledges a general slowing of the automotive and electronic component markets prior to the pandemic.
对公司对医疗设备传感器的压电陶瓷的需求，尤其是对医疗设备的压电陶瓷的需求，部分影响了影响。
Ceramtec还指出，美国和中国市场的发展对公司而言越来越重要，因为它希望继续扩大其国际业务活动。
| (Million €) | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | ％ 改变 |
| Total revenue | 552.7 | 620.4 | -10.9 |
| Medical Products revenue | 230.2 | 258.7 | -11 |
| Industrial revenue | 322.5 | 361.7 | -10.8 |
| EBITDA | 190.5 | 222.7 | -14.5 |
CeramTec’s 3D printing activities
In its annual report, CeramTec stated it considers itself “well equipped” for FY 2021 due to a large number of international projects and initiatives the company has ongoing, including 3D printing: “Innovations, such as in 3D printing, as well as the expansion of business activities in Asia and the USA, contribute to this,” the firm revealed.
According to the company, though, 3D printing still isn’t commonly used to produce industrial ceramic parts, however it seems likely that CeramTec will look to increase its 3D printing activities throughout 2021 and beyond, havingadded a new ROCAR 3D printing powderto its material portfolio earlier this year.
The新颖的材料具有碳化硅(SiSiC的属性), making it potentially well-suited to producing prototype parts or for small production runs within plant-based settings. CeramTech suggests ROCAR 3D may help to increase the use of 3D printing for industrial ceramic parts by offering faster processing speeds and better value for money than that of conventional ceramics.
Innovations in ceramic 3D printing
Ceramics possess a number of properties such as wear-resistance and chemical stability that make them ideal for 3D printing applications ranging from tools to dental products. However, their inherent fragility and complex sintering requirements have often made them difficult to process and vulnerable to cracking.
Saying this, there are continual developments within the sector to advance ceramics 3D printing, and one company at the forefront of this is binder jetting 3D printer manufacturer,ExOne, whose 3D printers are能够打印金属，陶瓷和复合材料，新材料连续合格。一月份，该公司从橡树岭国家实验室为了制造增强lightweight metal-ceramic parts.
去年11月，以色列制药公司SYQE医疗安装了3D打印机和材料制造商的Carmel 14雷电竞充值00添加剂制造系统XJETin order to producehigh-precision and heat-resistant ceramic parts对于医疗部门。同时，Fraunhofer陶瓷技术研究所（ikts）开发了multi-material jetting (MMJ) system这将高性能陶瓷和金属结合到单个3D打印部分中。
Elsewhere,Skoltechscientists have developed a novel method of 3D printingpersonalized ceramic bone implants, while mission critical space systems specialistRedwireprinted a set of太空中的陶瓷组件首次。
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