CUSTOM
Custom Engineered Ceramics
Parts engineered to your drawing: grade selection, geometry, tolerance, surface finish and inspection agreed before production, then held from sample through batch.
Material detailsFORM 12
Ceramic Structural Parts
Blocks, brackets and spacers that locate, support or isolate inside equipment.
Advanced Industrial Ceramics
Structural ceramics replace metal where a part has to insulate as well as carry load, or where it has to keep its shape at a temperature that would soften or oxidise a metal bracket.
These parts are defined by their interfaces rather than their outline: the hole positions, the step that locates, the face that seats. Those are the dimensions that decide whether the assembly goes together at all.
Specification and control points
| Material system | Alumina · Zirconia · Silicon nitride |
|---|---|
| Envelope | To drawing |
| Hole and slot positions | Toleranced individually on the drawing |
| Wall and step thickness | To drawing, set by the load path |
| Datum | Stated; the other features are measured from it |
| Surface | As-fired · Ground on the functional faces |
| Inspection | Points agreed before the run |
FORM 12Silicon carbide square-section beams — supplied part photograph
Part photographs
Ceramic Structural Parts parts photographed
Supplied photographs for this catalogue entry. Captions describe the geometry in each frame — ask us for drawings and grades with your enquiry.
Blocks with raised bosses
Arch blocks with a single bore
Stepped blocks with mounting holes
Zirconia block with twin rails and a bore
Zirconia mounting plate with a raised boss
Zirconia block with a raised centre and three holes
Silicon carbide beams, square hollow section
Typical applications
Applications this form is specified for
The industries below are the applications this material system is most often specified for. Tell us your own duty and we will confirm whether it is the right grade.
Insulating structural blocks inside equipmentSupports, brackets and mounting bodiesSpacers between metal componentsLocating and alignment blocksFurnace and process equipment internals
Made to your requirement
What is defined with you before production
- What the part locates, supports or separates
- Every interface it touches, and how it is fixed
- The electrical or thermal duty it carries
- The quantity band, and whether the part is new
Supply stage
Sample part first, then batch production on the same material and process basis. Ask for the material data sheet with your quotation.
Related pages
Forms and materials to compare
FORM 07
Ceramic Insulators
Insulating bodies, spacers and supports for equipment that runs hot and live at the same time.
Material detailsFORM 04
Ceramic Plates
Flat plates and substrates where flatness, insulation and wear resistance decide the part.
Material details