In our innovation-driven time, pressures to continuously improve manufacturing processes are constant and increasing. How IBU-tec meets these challenges with proven rotary kilns and the relatively unknown pulsation reactor is the subject of an article in the current issue of the INTERCERAM. One example sheds light on the possibilities of scale-upping newly developed laboratory materials and bringing them to market. Another shows how decades old procedures that can be innovatively applied to yield solutions to current challenges.