Last month, Richard Verrier took a trip to Asia as part of Anderman & Company’s ongoing commitment to customer focus and building strong partnerships. This visit, which forms part of a global series of trips, provided an opportunity to review ongoing business developments, discuss future business plans and industry trends, and ensure we continue delivering high quality solutions to our customers.
Industrial ceramics play a crucial role in applications across a wide range of industries, offering unique properties that other materials simply cannot match. From high temperature and wear resistance to electrical insulation and corrosion protection, ceramics are often the best choice of material when working in extreme environments. However, understanding which ceramic materials are best suited for specific applications can be complex. In this blog, we’ve sat down with Richard Verrier, our Technical Commercial Engineer, to answer some of the most common questions that come up when choosing the right material.
Richard’s insights offer valuable guidance on material selection, key properties to consider, and how to collaborate with experts to ensure the best solution for your needs.
Industrial ceramics, also known as engineering ceramics or advanced ceramics, combine the superpowers of exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical strength as well as an ability to resist wear that make them essential in today’s ever-evolving world. These materials are critical across a wide range of manufacturing processes—many more than you might think.
When you consider ceramics, traditional pottery or decorative items might come to mind. However, industrial ceramics are engineered to a much higher standard and are specifically designed to solve engineering challenges, ranging from smelting to car brakes.
The primary materials used in industrial ceramics include oxides, nitrides, carbides, and certain composite materials, making them ideal for environments where reliability and performance are critical for safety and longevity and compared to other materials, industrial ceramics offer a unique set of advantages, including heat resistance, hardness, and resistance to wear and corrosion.
Quality is vital in your highly regulated sector. Your reputation and safety record depend on the purity of the molten material you produce. The refractories that distribute that material round your production line must be of the highest quality, to avoid contamination and reduce your scrap yields.
We know. We have been developing, delivering and supplying advanced refractories to the superalloy and investment casting industries for more than 70 years.
When your plant has a daily throughput worth millions, you need to cut downtime wherever possible.
You want reliable supplies of high quality refractories in steel manufacturing that give you a longer campaign life or reduced scrap yields. You don’t want to stop an operation because a ceramic lining must be replaced earlier than expected. We understand that the cost of that is huge in terms of lost production in the steel manufacturing process – much bigger than the refractory’s original price tag.