Advanced Ceramic Materials – The Basis for Our Success

"CeramTec’s current portfolio comprises well over 10,000 different products, components and parts, and a wide variety of advanced ceramic materials."

CeramTec is a pioneer in the field of advanced technical ceramics and all of its application and development potential still waiting to be unleashed. The more than 100-year history of the company and its earlier companies along with the numerous innovations for many different applications with our ceramic materials speak for themselves.

Our success and all of these developments are based on advanced ceramics, also referred to as technical ceramics, engineering ceramics or industrial ceramics. These terms cover many different and in part highly-specialized ceramic materials with unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and biochemical properties and property combinations.

Advanced ceramics are developed, optimized and tuned for their specific properties in various technical applications. Examples of such varying properties of ceramic materials are:

These properties and property combinations make it possible to use technical ceramics in a variety of applications in the automotive industry, electronics, medical technology, energy and environment and in general equipment and mechanical engineering. This often puts technical ceramic materials in competition with metals or plastics. But in some cases they offer the only solutions, and are used where these materials do not ideally fulfill existing requirements or if new challenges cannot be overcome with conventional materials.

Countless material innovations and a product range that now encompasses more than 10,000 parts and components speak for the variety and diversity of the application possibilities technical ceramics have to offer. Visit the following pages for detailed information on our materials. We have also put together an overview for you of our extensive range of products and their use in many different markets and applications.

We also recommended reading the article about advanced ceramics on Wikipedia and visiting the web pages of the Ceramics Industry Association were you will find specific information on this topic and a very useful guide to advanced ceramics. There is also a manual available titled “Technical Ceramics – The Material of Choice for extremely demanding Applications” from “The Library of Technology” series (German book and series title: “Technische Keramik – Werkstoff für höchste Ansprüche”; “Die Bibliothek der Technik”) published by Moderne Industrie (ISBN 978-3-937889-97-9) that was created with the support of CeramTec. CeramTec is currently offering the “Technical Ceramics” manual directly and free of charge to anyone interested in advanced ceramics. Find out more here.

You can meet Technical Ceramics from CeramTec at many international fairs and events but also by visiting the Exhibition of Technical Ceramics at the Deutsche Museum Munich, Germany, or at the Porzellanikon of the European Museum of Technical Ceramics in Selb, Germany. Both exhibitions have been supplied by CeramTec with numerous exhibits made from ceramic materials.