As of January 1, 2025, the two Heraeus companies Heraeus Conamic and Heraeus Comvance have joined forces under the new name Heraeus Covantics. This merger makes Heraeus Covantics a global powerhouse, combining our expertise and resources to drive innovation and growth. Heraeus Covantics manufactures semi-finished products, complex system components and custom-tailored solutions made of quartz glass, fused silica and ceramic materials for the data transmission and telecommunication industry, the production of specialty optical fibers for industrial and medical applications, semiconductor manufacturing and optical applications among others.
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Heraeus Covantics: Materials specialist further expands its technology leadership
From January 1, 2025 Heraeus is combining the high-performance materials expertise of Heraeus Conamic and Heraeus Comvance into a new operating company: Heraeus Covantics. The merged business will be led by a new management team. The legal entities will remain the same.
Transforming waste heat into usable energy
Heating and cooling buildings requires a considerable amount of energy, not only in homes and offices, but also in production and storage facilities. During the production of quartz glass, waste heat is generated by melting quartz sand at extremely high temperatures. Together with Heraeus Site Operations, Heraeus Conamic has developed an innovative and sustainable solution for heat integration in which the waste heat generated is used to heat other buildings.
Unmatched quartz glass quality assured by AI
Quartz glass, whether natural or synthetic, is an exceptional material widely utilized in industry and research for a variety of high-tech applications in IT, communications, medicine, and the environment, thanks to its high chemical purity. Heraeus Conamic and Heraeus Comvance, among the world's few manufacturers of this material, have implemented artificial intelligence to enhance defect detection and ensure unparalleled levels of purity.
What this year's Nobel Prize has to do with laser optics and fused silica
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to an international team of researchers who investigated new effects caused by the interaction of laser light with atoms in a gas. These effects can be used to generate extremely short light pulses. So-called attosecond light pulses open up exciting possibilities in basic research. They can be used to observe very fast movements of electrons and control chemical reactions, for example.
Fusion energy – from hype to reality
The annual International Day of Light dates back to the world's first successful use of lasers in 1960. Today, laser systems can be crucial for an important energy source of the future: nuclear fusion. Known as laser fusion, it achieved a breakthrough in December 2022: In an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the USA, it was possible for the first time to generate more fusion energy than was injected to heat the fusion fuel - thanks in part to fused silica optics from Heraeus Conamic. What does this break-even point mean for science and what will happen next?
Nuclear Fusion – An Alternative for Fossil Fuels
Due to the increasing energy demand of the earth, it becomes more and more important to create sustainable and renewable energy sources. To solve this, researchers are trying to bring the sun's energy generation process to Earth using nuclear fusion.
Closing the green energy gap with fusion power
The world's hunger for energy, especially for electricity, is growing. This trend is being driven by increasing electrification in transport, heating, and industry. According to a study by the World Energy Council (WEC), global electricity demand will increase by almost 150 percent by 2060 compared with 2015. This growth cannot be met with renewable energies alone. Nuclear fusion technologies have currently made important progress. This requires powerful lasers, for which Heraeus Conamic supplies high purity fused silica.
