Established 1968. Manufacture advanced technical ceramics, including SiC, silicon nitride, boron carbide, aluminum nitride, translucent aluminum oxide and titanium diboride. Produce components for aerospace, defense, industrial and medical applications, including ceramic armor, wear components, automotive, rolling elements, semiconductor processing, metal-forming components, cutting tools, dental brackets and microwave-absorbing ceramics.

Worldwide supplier of additives, adhesives, coatings, reinforcing fillers, process aids and release agents.

Manufacture thick-film and related materials, including ceramic tapes, screen-printable inks or pastes and fired parts. Technical service facilities in Japan and China. ISO 9001 manufacturing in Europe and United States. Products available worldwide and can be purchased directly online.

Manufacture standard and specialty frits used in ceramic whitewares. Sell Reimbold & Strick glaze stains and specialty frits. Sell FC kaolin clay and FC kaolin slurry to the ceramic trades, especially the sanitaryware industry. Sell ceramic raw materials and chemicals.

International group of companies with 13 production sites in Europe, North America and Far East. Produce advanced ceramic and refractory metal powder and special metals. Processes these materials into mill products and fabricated parts.

Established 1938 as part of Alcan Group Companies. Manufacture metallurgical, ceramic and special grades of alumina and hydrates, carbon/graphite shapes and semifabricated aluminum products. Acquired by Aditya Birla Group in 2000. Merged with Hindalco Industries Ltd w.e.f. 2005.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL), based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Manufacture and market phosphates, phosphoric acid and phosphorus chemicals.

Mine and market raw and calcined kyanite (mullite), domestically and internationally. Available in grain sizes of 35, 48, 100, 200 and 325 mesh. Six plants in Virginia. Provide alumina silicate mineral (with elongated needle-structured bladed particles) and high-alumina benefits.

Provide high-purity quartz and advanced ceramic materials for the semiconductor, telecommunications, lighting, electronics, personal care, water purification and other industries. Ceramic products include BN powder coatings/sprays, hot-pressed boron nitride shapes/composites, pyrolytic boron nitride, titanium diboride, pyrolytic graphite, advanced ceramic heaters and CVD metal carbides.

Manufacture magnetic and advanced materials, including soft ferrites, ceramic magnets, powdered-iron products, microwave ferrites, dielectric resonators and thermal deposition products. Subsidiary: TCI Ceramics Inc.