CoorsTek Inc. - Advanced Materials Solutions for Industry

Aerospace and Aviation

Air-Bearings

Analytical Labs

Ceramic Armor

Chemical Processing

Electronics

Fuel Cells

Food and Beverage

Industrial

Labware

Laser Equipment

Medical Products

Mining and Minerals

Oil and Gas

Optics

Ozone Generators

Power Generation

Precision Measurement

Pulp and Paper

Semiconductors

Telecommunications

Thermal Management

Transportation

Tubes and Rods

Vacuum Wafer Chucks

Wire and Cable Industry

Background

Using our core strengths of custom engineering, materials expertise, operational excellence, and rapid execution, we help our customers develop amazing solutions to their toughest technical challenges. Our experienced engineering and manufacturing experts are ready to help with your next project.

Aerospace and Aviation

CoorsTek supplies a variety of critical components for the aerospace and aviation industries. Alumina thick and thin film substrates used in the manufacture of hybrid circuits for on-board applications. Engineers take advantage of the electrical, thermal, and mechanical characteristics of technical ceramic materials in many harsh-environment applications.

Air-Bearing Guideways for a Range of Applications

CoorsTek offers a full line of metrology and machine components. A high stiffness-to-weight ratio and micron-level precision makes our ceramic beams and stage components the standard for applications like coordinate measuring machines, semi-conductor processing and inspection, and high-speed electronics assembly. Our precision ceramic beams are ideal for air-bearing guideways and for single and multiple-axis stages, creating superior accuracy and reliability.

Analytical Labs

The CoorsTek Analytical Laboratory offers a wide variety of services from Analytical Chemistry to Material Testing. We employ a staff of trained professionals using the latest techniques and the most state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation necessary for providing you with quick and accurate solutions to fit your particular needs.

Ceramic Armor / Military Defense and Security

CoorsTek produces ceramic armor plates used as the outer layer of lightweight composite armor (armour). Due to the high hardness of the alumina and silicon carbide ceramic plates, they can break up the armor-piercing bullet, and the woven backing (fiberglass, Kevlar or Spectra) catches the fragment. The assembly is approximately half the weight of steel and it does the same job. This armor is used as protection for police, defense and military personnel.

Corrosion-Resistant Materials for Advanced Chemical Processing

CoorsTek provides a vast array of corrosion-resistant, highly durable components and materials for all types of chemical processing applications. Let our experts assist you with material selection, design-for-manufacturability, and custom engineering.

Precision Electronic Components and Systems

CoorsTek offers a wide variety of electronic components -- from high-performance, ultra-pure ceramic substrates to ESD-safe ceramic and plastic components, we help our customers build next-generation electronics technologies.  CoorsTek provides custom high-purity, long-wearing alumina custom shapes with or without metallization and specialized brazing and joining for a wide range of applications.

Fuel Cells, Sensors and Membranes

Ceramic Fuel Cell Components - Advanced ceramic components for the fuel cell industry. CoorsTek works with fuel cell designers and manufacturers to provide half cells, ceramic tubes, and planar substrates.

Ceramic Oxygen Sensors - Solid ionic materials for the measurement of partial pressure of oxygen, hydrogen and other gas species at elevated temperatures. See also Ceramic Sensor Components.

Diffusion Membranes - Solid ionic materials and mixed ionic/electronic conductors for gas purification and separation.

Food and Beverage

CoorsTek materials are ideal for use in beverage valves and food processing equipment. These applications take advantage of corrosion and wear resistant properties of high alumina ceramic.

Industrial

From corrosive material handling to grain silo linings, we've helped build highly durable and reliable systems for virtually every corner of industrial facilities.

Chemical and Scientific Labware Products

One of the original and oldest product lines for CoorsTek focuses on chemical-porcelain produced in a variety of ceramic materials. These materials offer thermal-shock resistance, prolonged life, hardness, and refractory qualities. Mortars and pestles, boats, crucibles, cups, and dishes are just a few of the products offered.

Ceramics for Laser Equipment Components

CoorsTek manufactures custom ceramic components for numerous types of lasers including excimer, CO2, Solid State/NdYag etc.

Custom Medical Products

CoorsTek works diligently to make even the most complex projects easier. Easier to design, easier to manufacture, and easier to deliver on time. Our specialized product development teams help you with as much or as little as you like. From selecting the best material to choosing the appropriate manufacturing method -- we provide the expertise, materials, and best-practice methods. 

Mining and Minerals

High-tech ceramics offer an array of wear resistant properties that allow their use as lining materials for mills and coal handling equipment. CoorsTek diamond grinding wheels are used to grind ceramics as well as other materials, such as tungsten carbide, quartz, glass and high alloy steels.

Wear and Chemical-Resistant Products Perfect for Rigorous Oil Field Duty

CoorsTek serves the Oil and Gas industry with a wide variety of extreme-service components and assemblies.

Advanced Materials and Services for Optical Applications

CoorsTek offers Sintered Silicon Carbide (SiC) optical mirrors for space-based and ground-based astronomy and defense applications. Sintered SiC is ideal material for numerous optical applications due to its very high specific stiffness, very high thermal conductivity, and low coefficient of thermal expansion.

Our sintered SiC is also compatible with most optical coatings commonly used on glass optics. Our manufacturing technology allows for highly light-weighted mirrors to under 10 kg/m2. We have achieved better the 1/10 wave (632 nm) figures and less than 2 Angstrom surface roughness.

Advanced Ceramics for Ozone Generators

As the largest manufacturer of technical ceramics in North America, CoorsTek supplies advanced ceramic components to a number of high-technology industries including ozone generation. CoorsTek high-purity substrates, thin-wall tubes, and custom ceramic components are designed to meet corrosive-environment applications of ozone generators and improve equipment efficiency and durability.

Power Generation Components and Assemblies

High-alumina materials are used in the manufacture of electrostatic precipitator components and wear resistant linings in coal-fired power systems. These applications take advantage of ceramics wear resistant, thermal, and mechanical strength properties. Refractory metallized and brazed aluminum oxide ceramics are used in power grid tubes, vacuum interrupters, and similar applications where metal-to-ceramic joints of exceptional strength and hermeticity are required.

Precision Measurement

CoorsTek, Oregon Operations, offers a line of advanced ceramic precision measurement instruments (Cera-Check®) for machine set-up and calibration use which conform to MIL-STD-45662. Made of aluminum oxide ceramic, these components offer lightweight alternatives to characteristically unwieldy granite or steel instruments. These products also offer traceability to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Pulp and Paper Products

CoorsTek supplies ceramic components to both paper equipment manufacturers and paper producers with ceramic and plastic de-watering elements, cleaner cones, stainless-steel structures, showers and oscillators, vacuum controls, and high-pressure filters. We also offer system solutions including design, inspection, installation, and reconditioning services.

Semiconductor Processing

CoorsTek provides support for the semiconductor manufacturing industry by supplying the chamber-critical components used in sophisticated chip-processing equipment. These critical components are produced from a very wide range of high-purity ceramics and engineering plastics.

In most cases, the product is an extremely intricate component produced using the most advanced forming, precision machining, and grinding equipment available. CoorsTek engineered plastics capabilities include fluoropolymer systems for wafer-handling consumables. 

Telecommunications

CoorsTek electronic products are found in a multitude of telecommunications applications including circuit substrates, single and multi-layer packages for SMD applications and materials appropriate for use in RF and microwave devices. Our capabilities include high-volume production of SMD style packages for crystal/oscillator/SAW applications. CoorsTek supplies fiber optic connector ferrules in stabilized zirconia.

Thermal Management

Ceramics find themselves in a multitude of applications where thermal problems exist. Because of alumina's characteristic to support its own weight at elevated temperatures, many applications where other materials will not hold up are a cinch for ceramics. Ceramics are used for thermocouple tubes and furnace and kiln refractory.

Transportation

CoorsTek offers a line of special ceramics that take advantage of higher dielectric properties, such as GPS and microwave applications. These applications are becoming more extensively used in the transportation industry for location and guidance systems. Through CoorsTek, California Operations, El Segundo, we supply Teflon® fluoropolymer sealing systems for aerospace and industrial hydraulic equipment, fluid handling systems and transportation industries. CoorsTek, Arkansas Operations, produces rotary shaft seal rings for use in automotive water pumps and air conditioner compressors.

CoorsTek also produces thick film substrates for automotive electronic circuitry. CoorsTek produces ceramic components used in sensors that help control exhaust emissions and fuel mixture. Ceramics are the chosen material for such applications as metering device components for fuel injection systems. Once again, these ceramic materials offer thermal stability, mechanical strength and electrical performance necessary in harsh environments under the hood.

Advanced Materials and Precision Manufacturing for High-Performance Tubes and Rods

Enhance performance and product life by using the material best suited to YOUR application CoorsTek Materials Professionals help you choose from a multitude of advanced ceramics and high-performance plastics including various grades of alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide and high performance plastics. 

Advanced Ceramic Vacuum Wafer Chucks

As a leader in technical ceramics for wafer processing equipment, CoorsTek understands advanced semiconductor manufacturing and constantly develops new materials, designs, and processes to optimize yields and extend product life.

Our ultra-flat ceramic vacuum wafer chucks improve yield management for semiconductor wafer processing. Low-surface-contact configurations minimize risk of back-side particles negatively affecting wafer geometry for precision applications.

Solving Wear Problems for the World’s Wire and Cable Industry

Using advanced ceramic materials, superior product design, and a top-notch service team, CoorsTek helps wire and cable manufacturers save money with longer-lasting, higher-performance wire production components.

 

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Date Added: Aug 3, 2006
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