Advanced Ceramic Manufacturer

Ortech, Incorporated is a worldwide leader in the development and production of advanced technical ceramics. We provide a wide selection of technical and advanced ceramics including Alumina Oxide, Zirconia Oxide, Silicon Carbide and Silicon Nitride, which improves and extends the performance of your product, process, or system. Whether you need high temperature stability, hard and wear resistance surfaces, improved stiffness to weight radiations, anti-corrosive barriers or low thermal expansion rates – we can deliver. We can offer significant performance and cost advantages to meet your needs. Search our selection of technical ceramics including our Technical Ceramics Materials and Advanced Ceramics Standard Products.

Our Unrivaled Capabilities

Ortech specializes in high tolerance ceramic machining, grinding and polishing of unfired (‘green’) and fired ceramics. Our state-of-the-art equipment allows us to offer a variety of ceramic services include:

Isostatic pressing

suitable for the manufacture of uniformly compressed blanks and large parts that are appropriate for machining in the green state. Simple rubber moulds determine the initial form. This type of forming is well-suited to the manufacture of exacting prototypes and small series, but for some products can also be fully automated (spark plugs, grinding balls, small pistons, welding nozzles).

Dry Pressing

Is used to manufacture mass-produced precision ceramic products. Non-clumping granulates are compressed in steel dies designed appropriately for the part to be manufactured. The high cost for the dies (sometimes made of carbide) can only usually be justified for large runs. Dry pressing ceramic is the most economic process for large production runs, and is suitable for both simple and complex geometries. Depressions and holes are normally only designed in the pressing direction. Depending on the design of the ceramic dry pressing machine, components ranging in size from tiles down to match heads can be manufactured. Small discs or plates can be pressed with thicknesses of around 0.8 or 1.0 mm. The tape casting process is more suitable for even thinner, flatter components. It is still possible to manufacture fine ridgesor similar structures on the component if the granulate being pressed can effectively fill hollows in the pressing tool, and provided it is possible to create the necessary tool.

Ceramic Injection Molding

Ceramic injection molding is ideal for high-volume production of complex, tight-tolerance components, ceramic injection molding offers significant advantages over conventional forming methods:
• Cost-effective technique for complex designs
• Ability to produce net or near-net shape parts
• Very tight tolerance control
• Low-cost, high-volume manufacturing runs

For more information please see ceramic injection molding

Ceramic Grinding and Machining

Ortech specializes in high tolerance ceramic grinding, machining and polishing of unfired (‘green’) and fired ceramics.
Our state-of-the-art equipment allows us to offer a variety of ceramic services

For more information please see Ceramic Machining and Grinding Services

Metallized Ceramic

Ortech supplies custom Metallized ceramic in aluminum oxide ceramics prototype to high volume production capacity.

Applications:

Feed-through insulators, Headers, High-power receptacles, Insulating discs, Insulator rings and cylinders, Precipitator products, Power switches, Traveling wave tubes, Vacuum interrupters, Windows, Power grid tubes, X-ray tubes Joining types:

Ceramic + Mo/Mn Metallized + plating Ni
Ceramic + Mo/Mn Metallized + plating Ag
Ceramic + Mo/Mn Metallized + plating Au
Ceramic + printing Ag

Special types are available according to customer’s drawings or samples

For more information please see Metalized Alumina Ceramics

This is what our clients say!

A few words to mentionne that we have received the ceramic parts and we want to underline the excellent work done on the manufacturing.

You have delivered quality parts within very good tolerances. These parts will fit perfectly in our preproduction engines. We expect to go in production late this year or early 2016. We will retain Ortech as our favored supplier for these parts.

Again, thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Michel Dandurand

Michel Dandurand, MAEngines (QTE)

Dear Ortech,

I finally got my bearings…DAMN !! THEY’RE AWESOME !! You sure make
excellent ceramic bearings !! Everything in my order is PERFECT !!

Thank you,
Ken Bloch

Ken Bloch

Good Morning,
I wanted to let you both know how pleased I was to find the .0395” +/-.0002 diameter Al2O3 pins on my desk today from PO# MS00036261. You guys did a great job not only getting them here early, but also the quality you provided. Every one that I measured was within spec and I look forward to getting our parts waxed on to these and getting them sliced. This should happen within the next couple weeks as we have powder being pressed as we speak and should hit my floor soon.

Thank you for your help and your service!!!

I just want to follow up on these orders. We have received both order’s and the product looks fantastic. I want to thank you for getting these orders out us.

Chris , Mechanical Technologist

We spoke a few months ago when I had some small alumina tube machined. The parts worked very well, and the dimensions were spot on. I was hoping to be able to send you another mechanical drawing for a different part. It is very similar to the first tube, but the inner and outer diameter are different. If you would be able to assist me that would be a very much appreciated. Thank you and have a nice day.

Best,
Steven

Steven , NASA