Qsil Ceramics - Mechanical and Apparatus Engineering

Our ceramic materials offer advantageous properties especially for mechanical engineering:

• Corrosion and wear resistance
• High bending strength with excellent fracture toughness
• High stiffness
• Low density
• Low CTE
• Good thermal shock resistance
• Temperature stability exceeding 1000 °C
• Non-metallic material
• Electrically insulating or conducting properties
• Heat conductivity similar or higher than steel

In mechanical engineering our Silicon Nitride ceramics are already established in various fields of application.

Wear parts

  

• Agitator arms and lining elements for attrition mills
• Guiding elements and beams for machine tools
• Wear resistant non coupling parts for induction heating systems
• Dosing and ball valves in aggressive and corrosive fluid handling systems
• Seal rings for gas and fluid application
• Plunger and pistons for wear resistant pumping and dosing systems
• Crushing rollers and brackets
• Wear resistant screw-conveyors, compaction and pelletiser rollers

Optics

• Lens carrier systems for wafer steppers
• Housing and carrier structures for cameras and telescopes
• Highly stiff structures for mirrors and optical components

Aerospace

• Ultra lightweight, highly rigid structures for satellites and telescopes
• Supporting systems and platforms for optical devices

Photovoltaics

• Wear resistant components for high purity Silicon processing units
• Ceramic breaker jaws and compaction rollers
• Drive components for coating facilities

Electronics

• High strength insulators
• Protective plates for CVD coater
• Plates for wafer probe cards
• Carrier structures for wafer treatment
• Chucks for wafer machining

Measuring and Inspection Technique

• Structural components for high frequency shakers
• Wear resistant gauges

Thermal Engineering

• Heating and cooking plates
• Kiln furniture, burner nozzles
• Thermocouple protection tubes
• Heating elements

Glass Industry

• Shear blades for bottle production
• Grips and transport plates in contact with hot glass
• Agitators for glass melts