The war between Ukraine and Russia has highlighted the importance of body armor for soldiers, and the deadly consequences when it is lacking. Body armor is something Golden-based CoorsTek knows well.

Yet the really interesting question isn’t just what a 3-D printer can produce, but who can produce it. If it’s technically possible—and now legal in the United States—to print 3-D guns, and it’s also ...

Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne Inc. has received a $6.5 million contract to supply a lightweight ceramic-armor design for U.S. Army groin-protection inserts. The company is a manufacturer of ceramics-based ...

Valot: That's Joel Moskowitz. He's the CEO of Ceradyne, a Costa Mesa company that's supplied ceramic body armor to the military since the 1990s. The ceramic inserts with a polymer backing are about a ...

New research into 3D printing technology could someday lead to the U.S. military 3D printing body armor for soldiers. The technology, which looks to abalone shells for inspiration, could allow units ...

Stow, Ohio – ShotStop® Ballistics Technologies, LLC (ShotStop), an innovative and leading manufacturer of patented and patent-pending advanced ballistic technologies, including, body armor, ballistic ...

The U.S. Army, under pressure to issue additional protective gear to its soldiers in Iraq, has signed a $70-million emergency contract with a Costa Mesa company for ceramic body armor. The contract ...

BODY ARMOR: Ceradyne Inc. said April 21 that it has received an $8.5 million order to provide its ceramic body armor system to protect "certain elite U.S. military personnel." The order is scheduled ...

After working for much of the last decade to reduce its dependence on military business, Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne Inc. has seen the price of its shares shoot up more than 55% since the September ...

Boron carbide has already seen plenty of action as a material for body armor. But limitations in this ceramic's density and ability to tolerate complex shapes, have restricted it to small, flat, armor ...

NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ceradyne Inc. , which makes ceramic plates for body armor, on Wednesday posted better-than-expected earnings in the third quarter, driving its shares up 8 percent, as sales ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Ceradyne Inc. crdn said Friday the U.S. Army awarded the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company a three-year contract to supply lightweight ceramic body armor. Ceradyne said the ...