Minco, Inc., a Ceradyne Company, was founded in 1977 to manufacture and market fused silica powders for a wide range of industrial applications. Minco’s fusing process is based on proprietary technology and has become the industry standard, increasing the productivity of the fused silica process ten-fold and revolutionizing the industry.

As a worldwide supplier of fused silica, Minco has increased capacity to meet the demands of the marketplace, and improved production processes so that their product is greater than 99.7% pure. Minco has also developed state-of-the-art particle size analysis systems, enhanced grinding and blending processes, and extensive high intensity magnetic separation methods to improve their products and make them the best available in the marketplace.

Minco is a key supplier of raw materials to Ceradyne Thermo Materials in Clarkston, Georgia. The Minco powders are used in Ceradyne’s high purity fused silica ceramic crucibles for use in the manufacture of photovoltaic polycrystalline silicon solar cells.

Minco is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company with corporate offices located in a turn of the century farmhouse next to their manufacturing plant in Midway, Tennessee.

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