(pressebox) (Karlsruhe, 20.04.2011) PI Ceramic is a worldwide leading player in the field of actuator and sensoric piezo products.

PI Ceramic currently presents the newly revised "Piezoelectric Ceramic Products" catalog. The catalog comprises detailed descriptions of the materials offered and their classification according to international standards, data tables of the individual materials, and dimensions of the components offered in disk or plate shape. Among others, lead-free piezo components are now newly offered.

PI Ceramic presents its broad production know-how in pressing technology as well as bulk technology for stack actuators and shear modules as well as with multilayer piezo actuators such as translators and benders and the respective testing procedures.

Possible applications are extensively described. They range from pumping and dosing tasks to metrology, from nanopositioning tasks to energy harvesting, from adaptive systems technology to materials processing.

The catalog is available for download at www.piceramic.de or it can be posted if so desired.

PI Ceramic supplies piezoceramic solutions for all important high-tech markets from industrial automation and the semiconductor industry, medical engineering, mechanical engineering and high-precision engineering through to the aeronautics industry and the automotive sector.

The subsidiary of Physik Instrumente (PI), a company with its headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany, currently employs approx. 200 staff, including no less than 30 engineers in research, development and manufacture. Customer orientation is a top priority.