Ceradyne offers a complete family of fully dense silicon carbide materials with the following key characteristics:

Super Hard Wear Resistant Corrosion Resistant Light Weight Tailored Electrical Resistivity High Thermal Conductivity

Ceralloy® 146 Sintered Silicon Carbide (SSC) is a fully dense material that can be produced in a cost effective manner to complex net shapes. This grade of silicon carbide is characterized as exhibiting both hardness and toughness and is used primarily for
Armor Systems
Industrial Wear

Ceralloy® 146 Hot Pressed Silicon Carbide (HPSC) can be formulated into a variety of compositions having minimal densification aids. The final properties can be formulated by altering the amount and type of densification aids. Finished components are machined at Ceradyne’s precision diamond grinding facility. Products produced from HPSC are:
Armor Systems
Semiconductor