Industrial Specialty Materials and Glasses

Originally developed for critical firing processes for electronic ceramic components, Vibrantz process temperature control rings (PTCRs) provide easy and accurate heat measurement for batch and continuous tunnel kilns in different atmospheres across a temperature range from 1040°F to 3182°F (560°C to 1750°C.) Our technical service team can also provide tailored PTCR solutions for kilns that utilize vacuum, reductive or nitrogen atmospheres.

Using process temperature control rings can eliminate or significantly reduce expensive, time-consuming quality checks, destruction testing and geometry, density or porosity testing. Each individual ring can be relied on to perform as specified in the conversion table provided, resulting in excellent temperature accuracy, which reduces the amount of effort dedicated to firing quality and control. Our unique approach allows PTCR users the ability to recalibrate or recalculate standards when introducing rings from a new batch.

Our specialty industrial ceramic pigments are designed to color all types of special glazes and bodies used for industrial ceramics. Our InstantColor^® ceramic pigment range contains 25 ceramic stains that exhibit high purity, intensity and brilliance. Significant cost savings can be achieved as colors are easily adjusted right in the barrel.

Our ceramic inclusion pigments create shining red, brilliant orange and intense yellow color shades of ceramic bodies and glazes at high firing temperatures. This adds much more versatility to the traditional spectrum of colors available to the ceramic world. The chemical and thermal stability of our inclusion pigments also ensures both a high level of production safety and excellent end-product profitability.

A significant environmental advantage of our cadmium-based inclusion pigments is the low amount of cadmium that can achieve the desired brilliant color at high firing temperatures. These pigments are stabilized by encapsulation in chemically and thermally stable crystals.

Vibrantz offers the highest purity dental pigments with a full palette of stains for dental ceramics that meet the most stringent requirements for heavy metal content and radioactivity. The chromaticity offered by our dental pigments provides extremely high flexibility in dental ceramic coloring. To achieve a natural appearance in dental ceramics, our dental pigments cover a complete spectrum from opaque to transparent in different color intensities and shades that include yellow via brown, pink, and blue.

Color strength can be customized by adjusting the quantity of pigment used enabling a full color space. All of our dental ceramic pigment products have been developed specifically to fulfill the highest purity, color, aesthetics and biocompatibility standards required for use in dental ceramic applications.

Our dental pigment manufacturing processes ensure the highest quality by using raw materials of extremely high purity. Our zircon-based dental pigments show greatly reduced radioactivity with an order of magnitude lower than natural zircon raw materials. In addition, only high purity silica is added as an adjustment material to avoid any contamination.

Our cobalt-aluminate inoculant agents are proven to be effective in the investment casting process of super alloys. These inoculants have a consistent and optimized distribution of fine-sized grain microstructures that result in improved fatigue strength, making them ideal for delivering specific grain sizes for many industrial applications. Our standard cobalt aluminate inoculants contain a cobalt content as low as 33% and they are more cost effective in comparison to the 40% phase purity cobalt found in a typical cobalt oxide or cobalt silicate. Vibrantz inoculants also offer good slurry dispersibility due to the additional low impurity content of silver (Ag), bismuth, (Bi) and lead (Pb).

We also offer customized inoculant formulations with varying cobalt content as required based on specific applications.

Vibrantz produces bioactive glass used in the medical and dental industries that provides the ability to chemically bond with bone to aid in the repair of bone defects and implements manufacturing controls to ensure the highest purity bioactive glass that meets the stringent standards for use in medical products. High purity raw materials and a specialized manufacturing process are used to minimize trace impurities. Our research and development team along with our applied technology department work together with our customers to design and manufacture custom bioactive glass formulations based on specific needs.