After launching last year, the still evolving cycle of videos dedicated to the world of chemistry applied to ceramic production – available both on the blog zslab.it and on the company’s Youtube channel – Zschimmer & Schwarz Ceramco takes new steps with consistency and obstinacy along its educational-training path, proposing a new branch of the project APPARENTLY INVISIBLE, now also available in podcast version.

Aware of the complexity of all issues related to chemistry applied to ceramic production processes, the podcast is open to those who, for passion or profession, wishes to be trained and oriented behind the scenes of one of the most articulate and not standardizable industrial production sectors. Far from an academic style, and with a simple and direct language, the podcast can be considered as a journey in stages with a focus on products, applications, and processes. At each stage a topic will be examined by highlighting the possible critical issues, circumscribing the causes, and offering a range of possible actions useful to prevent and, when possible, to solve the problem.

Following a vision that moves from the desire to shed light on the complex and underlying mechanisms that are the basis of the different stages of the production process, the communication project promoted by Z&S Ceramco is, in its different forms, a way to share visions, experiences and know-how.

The name of the project – APPARENTLY INVISIBLE – comes from a very simple and ironic observation: the chemicals normally used in ceramics (and therefore also those promoted by Zschimmer & Schwarz) are, to a large extent, transparent and more or less gelatinous mixtures. They are certainly not very eye-seductive, having moreover a very particular feature (a sort of common denominator): they burn and evaporate inside ceramic kilns without leaving an apparent trace.

However, despite their apparent invisibility, they play a decisive role not only for the proper processes’ development but also for the achievement of ceramic materials with high performance characteristics: both technically and aesthetically.

1. In which and how many phases of the process is chemistry involved?
2. What mechanisms of action does it produce?
3. What kind of parameters does it regulate?
4. How does it affect the decision to be made along the production line?
5. What may happen in case of its absence?

These are some of the questions that the podcast tries to answer, starting from Monday May 16^th.

Every two Mondays a new episode will be launched on the main audio platforms: 
Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google podcast e Spreaker.

Just a simple free registration on your favorite platform to follow the podcast and receive a warning at each new bet.