CERAMIC RESEARCH CENTRE INC.: OUR AIMS OUR AIMS ================================================================================ admin on 09/05/2010 09:03:00 SAM Inc. is founded in order to realize the aims listed below: * Creating a collaborative network between universities and companies in ceramic industry, researching and developing, and letting others research and develop subjects that ceramic industry and other related industries are in need of. * Providing knowledge about these subjects. * Using universities’ research potential in sense of industrial needs by collaborating with universities in research projects; tempting, increasing and spreading university industry collaboration. * Contributing to educate alumni experienced in industrial research subjects. * By the agency of main and practical researches, supplying continuous interaction of ceramic companies and universities in technological creativity and industrial development areas, thus; having a pie in increase of sector’s international competition power. * Making innovation in products and production methods that increases ceramic sector’s competition, increasing product quality or product standards, attempting to support test/analysis, education and other services needed for R & D studies, * Providing technological support and education service to the sector, arranging meetings like seminars, conferences, panels, publishing educative/informative information when needed, * Providing analysis and accredited standard test services to the sector * Giving support to the sector in compliance of the context of national and international technical regulations assesment of compliance work. * Furnishing sectoral laboratory/verification services, * Making studies to supply obligatory product tests to be performed according to the standards of the concerned country that Turkish ceramic sector exports products. * Following current standards, * Supporting companies in CE marking studies, supplying the necessary construction with this concern and furnishing analysis/test services, * Supplying control services according to acceptance criterias of raw materials, by-products, and products, in order to support ceramic sector in R & D studies. * According to the sector’s requirements, tracking developments, applications and enforcements in other countries and informating and directing the sector about the issues, * With other similar foundations, evaluating union opportunities with international union, federation and confederations.