Provide alumina, zirconia and quartz products for high-temperature and wear-resistant applications, including crucibles, tubes, plates and custom components.

Manufacture black SiC, green SiC and boron carbide. Also make SiC grains and water-classified fine powders to ANSI and FEPA F sizes, submicron, as well as refractory and custom splits. Applications include ceramics, abrasives, wire-sawing, refractory, chemical, nuclear, wear-resistant, polishing, compound, blasting and lapidary industries. Warehouses in Los Angeles and Houston.

Manufacture industrial and technical ceramics from alumina, mullite, zirconia, fused silica and SiAlON. Specialize in developing custom prototypes to full-scale production of ceramic components. Forming methods include casting, isopressing, extruding, pressing, plasma spraying and diamond machining. Products include a wide range of standard catalog and custom-engineered tight-tolerance tubes, rods, insulators, crucibles, containers, rollers and high-temperature corrosion-resistant items. Products available for electrical and wear-resistance applications. ISO 9001 certified.

Produce high-performance structural ceramics, including pressureless-sintered SiC, hot-pressed boron carbide, hot-pressed silicon nitride and hot-pressed aluminum nitride.

Manufacture dry-pressed, extruded forms and tape substrates in steatite, cordierite, MgO, forsterite, porcelain and alumina. Secondary operations include machining, glazing, grinding and tumbling. Some standard tooling. Production facilities with full service die shops located in Saxonburg, Pa. (ISO 9001:2008 certified) and Monroe, N.C.

Produce a wide range of calcined aluminas modified for special applications in the ceramics and refractory industries. Also produce sintered mullite, a synthetic raw material with high thermal shock-resistance. Specialize in production of spray-dried ceramic bodies with alumina contents of 92, 94, 96, 98 and 99.7 percent.

Offer machining of advanced materials for a variety of applications in the semiconductor, aerospace, wear component and industrial component market segments.

Engineer and manufacture porous ceramics for liquid filtration, gas filtration and diffusion applications for chemical, wastewater and pharmaceutical industries. Manufacture bonded desiccant filter-dryer elements for the refrigeration and air-conditioning markets. Engineer and manufacture zirconia (MgPSZ and YTZP) for high-wear and corrosion-resistant applications for oil, gas and dental industries.

Specialty precast refractories company servicing the heat-treating and coke-making industries.

Manufacture the original Zircar products, with more than 30 years experience in high-performance insulation for applications up to 2400C. Produce yttria-stabilized zirconia fiber insulation, including felts, cloths, boards, cylinders, cements, rigidizers, grogs and bulk fibers. Also manufacture these product forms in pure alumina, hafnia, yttria, zirconia and rare-earth oxides. Custom machining available.

Manufacture the only portable 1700 Celsius lab furnace that runs on 110 Volts. Two year warranty.