CeramTec

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CeramTec GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1903
Seat Plochingen , Germany
management
  • Hadi Saleh, CEO
  • Eric Oellerer, member of the management
  • Richard Boulter, member of the management
Number of employees 3,500 (2018)
sales 600 million euros (2018)
Branch High-performance ceramics , technical ceramics
Website www.ceramtec.de

The CeramTec Group is a developer and manufacturer of components made from technical ceramics . The products reach the market through our own sales companies. They are mainly used in medical technology , automotive engineering, electronics, device and mechanical engineering, environmental and energy technology, defense technology and in the chemical industry. The company's headquarters are in Plochingen in Baden-Württemberg.

Subsidiaries, branches and representative offices are located in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, England, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and India. The main locations in Germany are Plochingen , Lauf and Marktredwitz, along with other locations in Ebersbach , Lohmar , Wilhermsdorf and Wittlich . CeramTec is the world market leader in the field of technical high-performance ceramics .

The company is a member of the Association of the Ceramic Industry and the German Ceramic Society .

history

The Plochingen location around 1959
The Plochingen location in 2005

CeramTec was founded in 1903. At that time the Thomaswerke was established , which was taken over by Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG in 1908 . From 1921 this cooperated with AEG in the field of technical porcelain. This partnership was deepened in 1936 in the field of technical ceramics, and Rosenthal Isolatoren GmbH , also known as RIG , was founded.

In 1971, as part of a reorganization of the cooperation, Rosenthal Stemag Technische Keramik GmbH was founded for the production of technical ceramics. This company was renamed Rosenthal Technik AG in 1974 , acquired by Hoechst AG in 1985 and from then on it was run as Hoechst CeramTec AG . In 1996, this was taken over by Cerasiv GmbH based in Plochingen, the newly formed company traded as CeramTec AG .

The location in Lauf an der Pegnitz goes back to the establishment of STEMAG AG (Steatit-Magnesia Aktiengesellschaft) in 1921. Initially incorporated into AEG in 1970, the company merged with Rosenthal Stemag Technische Keramik GmbH in 1971 as part of the reorganization of the partnership between Rosenthal and AEG .

Südplastik Gummi- und Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH was established at the Plochingen location in 1951, and was taken over by Feldmühle AG in 1953 and renamed Südplastik und -keramik GmbH (SPK). In 1991 Feldmühle AG bundled its ceramic activities in the newly founded Cerasiv GmbH , but sold it to Metallgesellschaft AG as early as 1992 for integration into its subsidiary Dynamit Nobel AG . With the takeover of Hoechst CeramTec AG by Cerasiv GmbH in 1996, CeramTec AG was founded as a company of Metallgesellschaft AG (mg technologies AG).

Metallgesellschaft AG had to part with its Dynamit Nobel AG subgroup in 2004. Main buyer was the American financial investor KKR , of the parts of Dynamit Nobel AG in its participation Rockwood Holdings Inc. integrated. With this, CeramTec AG also became the property of the Rockwood Group based in Princeton (New Jersey) in the United States. CeramTec AG continued to grow as a company and in 2007 acquired Emil Müller GmbH in Wilhermsdorf, which was incorporated as a subsidiary. Another acquisition took place in 2008: ETEC Gesellschaft für Technische Keramik mbH was also incorporated as a subsidiary and renamed CeramTec-ETEC GmbH .

In 2013, Rockwood Holdings Inc. parted ways with several of its companies and the CeramTec group of companies was sold to the British private equity company Cinven .

In 2017 Cinven sold the company to the private equity investor BC Partners for 2.6 billion euros.

Applications and Products

Examples of components made from technical ceramics

The areas of application range from ceramic components for artificial hip and knee joints to dental ceramics, sealing and regulating disks as well as cartridges in sanitary fittings, cutting plates for metalworking , carriers for electronic circuits , device and machine elements, security components , protective elements, ballistic protective ceramics for personal and vehicle protection , Wear protection components , dipping molds for household, surgical and examination gloves to piezoceramics as core components of sensor and actuator products.

Product brands

  • Aloslide - inrun track for ski jumps
  • Alotec - products and parts for wear and ballistic protection
  • Biolox - hip and knee joint prosthesis components
  • Ceramaseal - vacuum-tight ceramic-metal components
  • Ceramdisc - sealing and regulating discs in sanitary fittings
  • Ceramcool - heat sinks for high-performance LEDs and electronics
  • Perlucor - high-strength, transparent ceramic that can be mass-produced
  • SPK - cutting inserts for turning and milling cast components and hardened steels

Main materials

Oxide ceramics

Non-oxide ceramics

Composite materials

  • Metal Matrix Composite (MMC)
  • Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC)

Salt cores

See also molding # Metallic permanent molds .

  • Bound
  • Sintered
  • Core shot

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  2. ↑ Financial investor Cinven takes over CeramTec. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 16, 2013, accessed on September 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ CeramTec announces its acquisition by BC Partners. October 11, 2017, accessed January 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ceramtec: Cinven sells ceramic manufacturer to BC Partners - manager magazin . In: manager magazin . ( manager-magazin.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Ceramtec: PERLUCOR® - Transparent, extremely resilient and very durable. CeramTec GmbH, accessed on September 5, 2019 .