Advanced Ceramic Applications & Markets
International Syalons is a manufacturer of advanced silicon nitride and sialon ceramic components, assemblies and powders for diverse applications in a number of industrial and engineering markets.
At International Syalons we supply advanced technical silicon nitride, sialon and zirconia ceramic materials to many industrial and engineering markets and applications. Silicon nitride and sialon offer outstanding wear, corrosion and thermal resistance and offer cutting-edge solutions to many engineering and industrial problems.
In many cases technical ceramics will replace an existing metal component in a design, where the much greater wear and corrosion resistance of engineering ceramics can offer significant lifetime improvements over the metal component, often making them very cost effective. Markets and applications utilising these advantageous properties of advanced silicon nitride and zirconia ceramics include:
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Industrial Wear
Syalon 101 and Syalon 050 are characterised by excellent mechanical strength and hardness, making them ideal candidates for extreme wear applications. These include paper processing dewatering foils and shot blasting of abrasive grits.
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Molten Metal Handling
Syalon 101 is renowned for its exceptional performance in non-ferrous molten metal handling. It is used extensively for products such as thermocouple protection sheaths, heater and riser tubes and ladles and crucibles and hooks.
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Metal forming
Syalon 101 and Zircalon are used extensively in metal forming applications such as wire drawing of copper and brass, as weld location and control pins for resistance welding of captive nuts to body panels and as cutting tools for cast iron.
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Oil & Gas
The oil and gas industries require advanced ceramic materials, such as Syalon, for components including hydrocyclones and metering valves, where excellent wear, corrosion and thermal resistance are required.
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Chemical & Process
The excellent corrosion and thermal resistance of Syalon ceramics to many acids and alkalis makes them ideal candidate materials for use in the chemical and process industries. For example, as an inlet liners in industrial chlorinators.
In addition to the applications outlined above, we supply fine ceramic components to many other markets including the medical, automative and aerospace industries. Please contact us for more information. Alternatively see our Industrial & Engineering Applications of Syalons guide or download our Applications of Syalons PDF.