Acers bulletin reginald desroches it s nearly the one year anniversary of the huge earthquake that crumbled port au prince and other parts of haiti and unfortunately reconstruction has taken place only on a very small scale.
Ceramics manufacturing in haiti.
Working alongside several of the haitian artisans we gathered local materials and used them to build a small propane fired kiln we then made prototypes for ceramic beads to be used in the apparent project s line of hand made jewelry.
In the simplest terms ceramic manufacturing is the technique of creating ceramic materials that can support a wide range of high tech engineering products and machineries.
The main story features interviews with representatives from industry and academia including eduardo bascaran human resources manager at corning inc richard brow professor.
The reasons for the slow pace are complicated.
In previous blog posts i explored various aspects of scott dillman s and my work to establish a ceramic studio with the apparent project in haiti.