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Buying Glass Ceramics

Top-level product category: icon materials

Related product category: optical glasses

Glass ceramics have various applications in optics, particularly as mirror substrates with very low thermal expansion. They are used in high-precision optical systems where stability and durability are critical.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to glass ceramics.

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying glass ceramics. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for glass ceramics. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Glass Ceramics

9 suppliers for glass ceramics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

IRD Glass
810 E St Paul St.
Litchfield, MN 55355
United States
Profile page  Website  
glass ceramics

IRD Ceramics, a sister division of IRC Glass, works with hard ceramics, sapphire, IR materials and super hard materials. Our state-of-the-art equipment, advanced precision ceramic machining and polishing capabilities, and in-house thin film coating facility allow us to produce 100% customized components at low or high volume.

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Other Suppliers

Abrisa Technologies
United States
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Advanced Glass Industries
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Corning Inc.
United States
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Ohara Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Reynard Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
Schott AG
Germany
Profile page  Website  Get quotation
Schröder Spezialglas GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  Get quotation

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.


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