Specialty Ceramics

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ specialty ceramics' products help customers to address unique challenges in thermal and chemical processing, heat exchangers, industrial metrology, temperature sensing, brazing, mechanical seals, semiconductor wafer processing, sandblasting and renewable energy generation applications.

 

The specialty ceramics portfolio consists of a wide range of products, sold as well-known brands:

  • Hexoloy® sintered silicon carbide
  • Norbide® hot pressed boron carbide
  • Noralide® hot pressed silicon nitride
  • Silit® siliconized silicon carbide
  • Advancer® N-Durance®, Refrax® 20E nitride bonded silicon carbide
  • Alundum® Aluminum oxide materials
  • Magnorite® MgO materials
  • Durafrax® Alumina materials

 

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ utilize materials expertise, innovative designs, creative engineering and precision manufacturing processes to deliver reliable solutions to global customers in automotive, chemical, aerospace, non-ferrous metals, nuclear and other renewable energy, industrial pumps and sealing industries; as well as OEM equipment makers and machine shops.

Solution By Application

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Industries Served

Automotive and Electric Vehicles

Automotive and Electric Vehicles

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ range of solutions for the automotive market. 

Aerospace

Aerospace

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ extensive range of ceramics – designed for essential components in the aerospace industry. 

Cement

Cement

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ range of solutions for the cement market. 

Construction

Construction

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ range of ceramics for the building and habitat markets. 

Electronics & Semiconductors

Electronics & Semiconductors

Description

From pacemakers to pain suppression devices, our ceramics enable fabrication of critical electronic components for the medical, sensor, and consumer ...

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Energy

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ extensive range of advanced ceramic products for the nuclear energy industry. 

Primary Copper

Primary Copper

Description

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ custom engineered solutions for flash melter applications. 

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy

Description

Discover our range of refractory solutions for thermal treatment in the waste to energy market; and its engineered silicon carbide solutions for solar ...

Secondary Copper

Secondary Copper

Description

Customized engineered solutions for copper shaft and holding furnace applications.

Services Portfolio

Material, Design and Engineering

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories leverages its competence and extensive experience in material development, design concepts, engineering and manufacturing to produce world class advanced ceramic products.

Co-Development

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories has a long history of partnering with strategic customers to co-develop materials and technologies aimed at commercializing sustainable and green industrial solutions.

 

Trobleshooting Support

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ highly trained R&D scientists and engineers employ state-of-the-art analytical equipment and tools to support customers in any number of product performance-related questions.