Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, Ceradyne Inc. is a fully integrated developer and manufacturer of advanced
technical ceramic products and components for defense, industrial, nuclear, electronic, automotive and medical markets.
Founded in 1967, Ceradyne has diversified its product lines to capture opportunities created by the growing demand for better materials performance. In late 2004, the company added
new product lines and new markets—and one of the world's leading suppliers of starting powders for manufacturing advanced
ceramics products—by acquiring ESK Ceramics of Kempten, Germany.
The unique characteristics of advanced technical ceramics—hardness, light weight, ability to withstand extremely
high temperatures, resistance to wear and corrosion, low friction, and special electrical properties—offer significant
advantages over traditional materials such as metals and plastics. As a result, Ceradyne continues to develop new uses for ceramics and offers a diversified line of high performance ceramic products for a wide range of markets.
Markets and Applications
Defense
Military ballistic armor protection for personnel, combat and tactical vehicles, small boats,
helicopters, and fixed wing aircraft.
Aerospace engine igniters, missile radomes, bushings and bearings
General Industry
Manufacturing components for aluminum processing, silicon refining, semiconductor
processing, aluminum metalizing, cast iron and super-alloy cutting.
Casting/pressing/forming components for steel and aluminum casting, titanium forming, glass
tempering, and thin-strip metal casting.
Petrochemical parts/tools for crude oil drilling, extraction and measurement.
Neutron Absorber Materials
BORAL® Composite, BORTEC® MMC, BorAluminum™, BoroBond™, Enriched
Boron, and Boron Carbide offer a full range of thermal neutron absorber materials for
criticality control in wet and dry, used and fresh fuel transportation/storage
applications and reactor control systems.
Electronic
Boron dopants and isotopes for semiconductor production
High performance parts for the electronic industry
Cluster ion implantation sub systems and advanced ion source materials
Automotive/Diesel Engine
Diesel engine cam rollers
Fuel pump components and rollers
Cylindrical rollers for hybrid roller bearings
Medical/Dental
Medical components for diagnostic and surgical instruments
Dental implants, abutments and crowns
Translucent orthodontic brackets
Ceradyne Operating Divisions
Advanced Ceramic
Operations – Costa Mesa and Irvine, California
Advanced Ceramic
Operations – Lexington, Kentucky
Ceradyne Armor Systems, Inc. –
Washington, D.C.
Ceradyne Boron
Products LLC – Quapaw, Oklahoma
Ceradyne Canada ULC –
Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
ESK Ceramics –
Kempten, Germany
ESK Ceramics –
Bazet, France
Minco, Inc. – Midway,
Tennessee
Thermo Materials –
Atlanta, Georgia
Tianjin Technical
Ceramics – Beijing, China
SemEquip, Inc. – North Billerica, Massachusetts
Semicon Associates –
Lexington, Kentucky
Vehicle Armor Systems
– Wixom, Michigan
Company Objective
"Ceradyne's objective is to provide state-of-the-art, advanced technical
ceramics to meet customer requirements for higher performance and efficiencies
in manufacturing equipment, production processes, and products. We believe the
catalysts driving demand for advanced ceramics are the physical and theoretical
limitations of products and parts made of conventional materials. With our
technical expertise, expanded production capacity, and global presence, we will
continue to develop and commercialize advanced ceramic solutions that enable
customers worldwide to achieve those higher levels of performance in a
cost-effective manner."
–Joel Moskowitz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ceradyne Website
