Product Announcements: Ceramic Powders and Precursors

Saint-Gobain NorPro has leveraged its long-time development of spray dried ceramic materials with the purchase of a large-spray drying facility. This will enable the production of spray-dried materials for fluidized bed applications on a large scale with all the control of product properties required by the market. (read more)

Saint-Gobain NorPro is the world's leading supplier of merchant catalyst carriers. Applying the more than 60 years of experience we have gained co-developing carriers with catalyst clients, we custom engineer the physical and chemical properties of a variety of materials and shapes to provide the optimal proprietary carrier for each customer-specific need. (read more)

TPL, Inc. is now manufacturing custom lots of our NanOxide™ Titanate Powders for its customers in quantities of 5kg - 20kg. TPL has the ability to formulate powders to meet customer specifications in purity, size, ratios and dopants. TPL has the smallest commercially available titanates in the United States.

TPL's titanate powders offer high purity, nanometer size and are de... (read more)

Hitachi Metals' SIALON is ideal for tools that contact molten aluminum on the aluminum melting and casting line. SIALON has high density and keeps high strength within the temperature range of molten aluminum; and moreover, SIALON shows no corrosion from molten aluminum. (read more)

TPL offers a range of titanate powders with controlled size and chemistry. NanOxide™ powders are produced via an aqueous, low temperature process that allows for binary and tertiary oxide compositions with controlled stoichiometries. The crystalline ceramic powders have uniform spherical morphology and high dielectric constant with sintering temperatures as low as 1000° C. (read more)

Ekonol Polyester Resin is one of the first liquid crystalline polyesters, a family of materials known for their exceptional stiffness and thermal stability. This polymer was developed in the 1960's and named after James Economy, who at the time was head of research at the Carborundum Company. Saint-Gobain acquired the Ekonol business in the mid-1990's. (read more)