Alumina Technical ceramics materials Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Stourport

Offers a combination of good mechanical and electrical properties leading to a wide range of applications. Alumina can be produced in a range of purities with additives designed to enhance properties. It can be formed using a wide variety of ceramic processing methods and can be machined or net shaped formed to produce a wide variety of sizes and shapes of component. In addition it can be readily joined to metals or other ceramics using metallising and brazing techniques.

Typical characteristics include:

Good strength and stiffness
Good hardness and wear resistance
Good corrosion resistance
Good thermal stability
Excellent dielectric properties (from DC to GHz frequencies)
Low dielectric constant and loss tangent

Typical applications include:

Seal rings
Laser tubes
Ballistic armour
Electrical insulators
Threadguides
Medical prostheses
Electronic substrates
Thermocouple tubes
Grinding media
Wear components

Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Stourport
Bewdley Road, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, DY13 8QR, England
Tel: +44 (0)1299 827000 | Telefax: +44 (0)1299 827872

Morgan Technical Ceramics is a Global Business Unit of the Morgan Crucible Company plc.
It comprises Morgan Advanced Ceramics and Morgan Electro Ceramics