Shapal™-M soft - Machineable Ceramic Developments

Goodfellow and The Technical Glass Company are delighted to be able to provide Shapal™-M soft machineable ceramic.

Shapal™-M soft is a machineable ceramic that offers high mechanical strength and thermal conductivity five times greater than alumina. This ceramic is suitable for a wide range of applications, particularly in the vacuum and nuclear industries. Shapal™-M soft is a combination of two different traditional ceramics (AlN and BN), and it can be machined into a variety of shapes using a number of techniques, whilst retaining many of the advantages of traditional AlN.

Characteristics of Shapal™-M soft include:

• High thermal conductivity
• High mechanical strength
• Excellent electrical insulation
• Low thermal expansion
• Low dielectric loss
• Excellent high temperature properties
• Suitable for vacuum applications

Development work is underway on improvements to the current generation of Shapal™-M soft, and news updates will appear on our website, so please check back regularly.

Please click here for a datasheet on the current generation of Shapal™-M soft, and for assistance on any Shapal™-M soft requirements you may have, please email us at shapalm@goodfellow.com.