Sponsors

3M Advanced Materials Division

3M’s portfolio of advanced materials are uniquely suited to survive and perform in many of today's most challenging applications and environments. We use these technologies to help customers in automotive, electronics, oil and gas, aerospace and many other industries find new ways to "expand possible". 

American Elements

American Elements is a global manufacturer of engineered & advanced technical ceramic powders & nanopowders for thin films, energy storage, optoelectronics, glass, & high temperature applications. 

Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify, automate and innovate complex testing and analysis in biomedical and industrial markets. The company offers particle counting and characterization systems for a wide range of materials (ceramics, polymers, cellular, metals) and particle size (nano- thru millimeter sizes).

Cerion Nanomaterials

Cerion Nanomaterials is a leader in designing, scaling and manufacturing metal, metal oxide and ceramic nanomaterials for companies developing products or systems.  Developing advanced expertise in nanomaterials is expensive and time intensive, resulting in significant barriers for companies considering its adoption.  Cerion provides companies with access to this expertise through all phases of the product lifecycle including research, development, scale-up and manufacturing.

Bosch is synonymous with quality and precision in the field of high-performance ceramics for the automotive sector. CERIX, the product area ceramic of grow platform GmbH is now tapping into new markets and also offering functional components made of high-tech-ceramics for consumer goods, industrial, electronically and medical engineering markets.

Continental Diamond Tool Corp

CDT is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of superabrasive products for a global market. Product lines include Plated, Metal Bond, Resin Bond, and Vitrified Bond.

DuPont

From probiotics to protective equipment, to delivering clean water and enabling smarter, faster electronics, we use science and innovation to make so many of the things that you use every day possible. At DuPont, we’re working to make the world a safer, healthier, and better place to live.

Fiven 

The Fiven company is the result of a recent corporate carve-out of Saint-Gobain's Silicon Carbide business by OpenGate Capital. The experience and history of their business reaches back to over 100 years. Fiven is clearly established as the worldwide leader in the business of silicon carbide grains and powders. At the heart of industry, they pride ourselves in serving many customers, leaders in their own segment, across the world, through long-term, trust-based relationships.

As one the largest suppliers in North America, Global - Pak pride themselves in providing the highest quality of FIBC’s (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers). In doing so; they focus on providing the highest level of customer service. They work for customers to ensure their operations run seamlessly.

Goodfellow Corp. 

Goodfellow supplies a comprehensive range of ceramics and glasses to the research and industrial markets, either as finished components to customer drawings or in an extensive range of semi-finished forms including sheets, rods and tubes for their customers to machine their own components.

Kennametal Sintec

Kennametal Sintec is a global manufacturer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), composites of boron nitride; including BN/ZrO2, BN/SiO2, and BN/TiB2; as well as non-oxide powders of BN, TiB2 and B4C. We have complete machining capability to supply custom parts (from prototype to large quantity production runs) or utilize our unique near-net shape forming capabilities for BN components.

Mo-Sci Corp 

Mo-Sci Corporation is a manufacturer of highly specialized glass materials. Mo-Sci takes great care in providing technical glass powders, glass microspheres, and custom glass melting for health care, electronics, adhesives and other industrial applications. Some products offered are bioactive glass, sealing glasses, bondline spacers, fluorescent and porous glasses.

Nanoe SAS

3M’s portfolio of advanced materials are uniquely suited to survive and perform in many of today's most challenging applications and environments. We use these technologies to help customers in automotive, electronics, oil and gas, aerospace and many other industries find new ways to "expand possible". 

Netzsch Instruments NA LLC 

Netzsch Instruments provides Thermal Analysis & Rheology instruments and contract testing: Measure thermal expansion & sintering studies, simultaneous TGA-DSC for mass change & energetics up to 2400C with evolved gas analysis by MS, FTIR, and QMS. Highest accuracy specific heat by DSC. Thermal Diffusivity & Conductivity by Laser Flash Analysis.

Nutec Bickley 

Nutec Bickley is an international leader, supplying highly innovative and ultra-efficient industrial heating systems. Our expert engineering team serves clients through the design, manufacture, installation and after-sales support of ceramic kilns, furnaces and combustion systems. We have installations in 50+ countries. Repeat business is testament to our quality and reliability.

Powder Processing & Technology, LLC

Powder Processing & Technology, LLC provides process development and custom powder processing services for the leaders in ceramics & inorganic materials technology. We bridge the gap from experimentation to commercial production, and we have the capability to produce at the scale you require with the quality and consistency you expect.

Rath

As a specialist in refractory technology, RATH offers a comprehensive product range of refractory materials for application temperatures up to 1800°C. The RATH Group manufactures a wide range of innovative refractory products in its own plants in Europe and the USA and has extensive expert knowledge in planning.

Rauschert

Rauschert is a global manufacturer of advanced technical ceramics.  We supply industrial, chemical, medical, electronic and food processing industries for applications that require high temperature, high wear and/or high corrosion resistance.  Products include machine and electronic components; pump and valve parts; textile and other wear components; and ceramic filtration membranes.

Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain develops reliable, high-performance and sustainable solutions for extreme operating conditions with its technology brands: Amasic-3D®, Coranit®, Hexoloy®, N-Durance®, Durafrax®, Crystar®, Refrax®, Silit®, and Zirchrom®. Materials include alumina, silicon carbide, boron carbide, silicon nitride, zirconia, and chromium for high temperature, corrosion, abrasion, and wear/impact resistant applications.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. Its mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen help customers accelerate innovation and enhance productivity. They provide a broad range of temperature control products and services.

Xieta International

Founded in 1995 in Barcelona (Spain), Xieta is a company specialized on production and supplying of raw and auxiliary materials and especially high density alumina balls and linings for milling. From its warehouses located in Spain, Brazil, Poland, India, Mexico and P.R. of China, Xieta distributes to over 40 countries.

Zircoa

Zircoa, a manufacturer and innovator of zirconia ceramics, was founded in response to a call from industry to push the limits of existing technology. Thee company has continued doing that for over 60 years. Zircoa's refractories, technical ceramics, and granular products provide solutions to keep you at the leading edge.