Are you looking for innovative, efficient solutions for your ceramic production process? Particle Size and Shape Analysis, Elemental Analysis, Heat Treatment, Microstructural Analysis and Hardness Testing – the Verder Scientific companies offer high-quality solutions combined with expert advice and support service worldwide.
CARBOLITE GERO offers modern solutions for debinding and sintering of ceramic parts.
Carbolite Gero manufactures a High Temperature Furnace (HTF) which reaches 1800 °C for performance applications. With a specially developed debinding solution, this furnace is perfect for debinding and sintering oxide ceramics in air in a single furnace.
Our HB ‘Top Hat’ Furnace can be used in the same temperature range. The automatic vertically lifting hood allows easy sample access and handling from three sides. If the debinding process takes place in a separate furnace, then CARBOLITE GERO's catalytic or thermal debinding furnaces such as the EBO or GLO are the ideal choice.
Our solutions portfolio also includes tried and tested products for non-oxide ceramics and silicate ceramics. For further information please contact us.
ELTRA develops combustion analyzers for precise and sensitive C|S and O|N|H determination in solids as well as thermogravimetric analyzers.
Combustion analyzers and thermogravimetric analyzers are powerful tools to characterize the quality of ceramic products. Typical examples for quality control of ceramics are the determination of free, bound and total carbon content in silicon carbide and silicon carbide products, or nitrogen determination in nitride based ceramics like BN or Si3N4. Typical thermogravimetric analyses comprise the measurement of the moisture content or loss of ignition in every kind of ceramic powder.
Analyzers like ELTRA’s ELEMENTRAC CS-i or ELEMENTRAC ONH-p deliver reliable results within a few minutes. Themogravimetric analyzers like the TGA Thermostep are easy to use and measure several parameters (moisture, LOI) in up to 19 different samples fully automatically.
QATM manufactures machines for materialography (metallography) used in quality control processes.
Ceramic parts require thorough testing, especially in the medical sector. QATM’s wide range of high-quality machines for cutting, mounting, and grinding/polishing allows for perfect surface preparation as a prerequisite for reliable microstructural analysis.
Thanks to automated solutions, such as the innovative cut-off machine Qcut 200A, sample preparation is convenient and reproducible. The new Qpol 250A1-ECO grinder/polisher is ideally suited to obtain optimum preparation results thanks to innovative features and robust design.
QATM specjalizuje się również w opracowywaniu i produkcji innowacyjnych maszyn do badania twardości. W przeciwieństwie do zastosowań ze stalą i metalami nieżelaznymi, badanie twardości materiałów ceramicznych jest trudnym zadaniem dla każdego twardościomierza. Wysokie wartości twardości i niska odporność na pękanie to typowe cechy ceramiki technicznej. Dzięki zaawansowanym, wysokiej jakości systemom optycznym i wyjątkowej wszechstronności, twardościomierze QATM sprawiają, że rutynowe badania twardości ceramiki są łatwe i wygodne dla użytkownika. Twardościomierze QATM Q10/30/60 są dostępne w wersji półautomatycznej lub w pełni automatycznej. Doskonale nadają się do badania twardości materiałów ceramicznych, pokrywając dolny zakres siły testowej od 0,25 g do 62,5 kg Twardościomierz Q150 A to bardzo wytrzymały, a jednocześnie kompaktowy, w pełni automatyczny tester, który może być używany do testowania ceramiki w połączeniu z metodami aplikacji dla wyższego zakresu siły testowej od 1 kg do 250 kg.
RETSCH provides size reduction and sieving equipment designed for sample preparation and characterization of solids.
Raw materials, green bodies and sintered products need to be analyzed with regards to their mineralogical and chemical composition as well as to their structural properties to optimize the ceramic production process.
At each stage, samples must be taken, processed and analyzed to ensure quality control without gaps. RETSCH offers a range of instruments suitable for sample preparation.
Microtrac manufactures innovative optical measurement systems for particle characterization of powders, granules, and suspensions.
The image analyzers CAMSIZER S1, CAMSIZER X2 and CAMSIZER 3D cover a size range from 0,8 µm to 30 mm. Short analysis time and easy handling make the analyzers of the CAMSIZER series suitable for quality control and routine tasks. Measurement results obtained by static or dynamic image analysis are superior to laser diffraction analysis in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and information content.
