Your Expert Partner
We are proud to have been providing a comprehensive range of services and products in Technical Ceramic Materials for decades. Thanks to this, we can offer expert technical support on material selection, component design and suitability for application.
Our highly experienced team can also add value by selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective manufacturing route, as unlike other providers, we can utilize all manufacturing routes and materials.
Full List of Services
Technical Support
Support in the selection of materials
Support in component design, technical drawings and suitability for application
Custom Components
Customized components in machinable ceramics - Macor®, Shapal™ and Aluminum Nitride
Customized components in traditional powder formed technical ceramics
Laser Cutting
Laser cutting of ceramic substrates (up to 2mm thick)
CNC and Traditional Machining
Machining to the most demanding tolerances
5 axis CNC, turning, drilling, grinding and milling
Specialist Lapping
Specialist lapping accurately recorded in micrometers
Surface Flatness
Flatness to a fractional wave
Polishing
Polishing to a surface roughness less than 1micron (depending on the material)
Diamond Grinding
Grinding on ultra hard materials up to 1m long
High Tolerance
Tolerances of up to +/-0.0025mm possible with +/-0.005mm routinely achieved
Injection Molding of Ceramics
Metallization
Metallization and metallized/bonded components, including the Mo-Mn technique, the active metal brazing procedure, the direct copper-clad process (DBC) and the magnetron sputtering technique
Ceramic Assemblies
Ceramic assemblies including porous ceramics and foams with certain porosity down to ~65% and thickness down to 2mm
Customized Ceramics
Custom ceramic balls/precision spheres fully dense with size up to 200mm or hollow upon request. Sphericity with accuracy <1μm and surface finish (Ra) <0.02 depending on the material
Laser Engraving and Marking
Quality Control and Measurement
Quality control and measurement including CMM and non-contact optical measuring systems. Profilometers and interferometers
Technical Reports
Reporting, chemical analysis, technical data sheet (TDS) and safety data sheet (SDS)
Key Materials (not limited to)
Why Goodfellow?
- No minimum order
- Over 175,000 advanced materials
- Supply Chain Management:
- sourcing custom materials for your needs
- Dispatched globally within 48 hours
- Materials customization:
- Custom parts for prototyping | Full product modification | Micro-machining | Microfabrication | Rolling
- Free and fast delivery: Worldwide shipping and customs clearance, to your door. All orders are dispatched within 48 hours
- Commercial arrangements:
- Call off orders | Buffer stock | Fixed and contract pricing | Discounts for increased volumes
- We help you innovate into the future.
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Contact us today for a quote and advice
We will attempt to provide you with an offer quickly meeting all your specification and drawing requirements. We can also make recommendations and suggest design considerations that may improve function and reduce the complexity of manufacture (and therefore cost!).
Our team of materials scientists and engineers are also on hand to recommend materials and review required properties.
When you submit your enquiry to us, please tell us about the operating conditions of your component (temperature, environment, mechanical stress), this can help us better pinpoint suitability.
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