ERBICOL

Porous Ceramics

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  Ruby & Sapphire

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Erbicol SA

Erbicol is active since 1950 and employs more than 40 persons. Erbicol core business is machining extra hard materials like rubies, white sapphire disks, cylinders and micro-pumps pistons, plates for scrapers, and micro-magnets in rare earth materials for the watch industry and other high precision mechanical fields
Since 1998 Erbicol SA produces porous ceramics made of silicon infiltrated silicon carbide continuously improving its SiC foam quality and widening products range. Development of new ceramic foams and research of new applications has been pursued in collaborations with universities and research institutes. Porous ceramics typical clients are companies producing components working in high temperature, harsh environments, which need materials with high thermal conductivity, high thermal-shock resistance and passive to corrosion. Such products are gas burners, radiation plates, fuel cell reformers, catalyst support and many more.