Saint-Gobain Ceramics: Structural Ceramics

Structural Ceramic Products

Hexoloy® silicon carbide

Our Hexoloy® SiC material offers broad manufacturing capabilities to meet your size, shape and tolerance requirements.  A superior alternative to metals, tungsten carbide and other alumina ceramics for efficiency, uptime and reliability.

Norbide® hot pressed boron nitride

One of the hardest materials known and offers excellent chemical and wear resistance for demanding applications such as blast nozzles, monument nozzles and armor components.  Components made with Norbide® B₄ C offer longer service life which can translate into lower costs, reduced maintenance and less downtime for many applications.

Noralide® NBD-200 hot pressed silicone nitride

Offers a combination of characteristics that make it an ideal material for seal face components in nuclear applications, as well as other applications where maximum fracture toughness and flexural strength are required.  Hot-pressed for maximum strength and density, Noralide® Si₃N₄  provides better fracture resistance than other ceramic materials.

AlNimax™ Aluminum Nitride

A high-purity, fully dense ceramic material that features excellent plasma resistance and superior thermal properties.  These characteristics provide improved component life and reliable performance for silicon wafer processing.  Manufacturing process flexibility allows the integration of features such as refractory metal layers, electrical terminations and embossed surfaces to provide leading edge solutions.