As you would expect from one of Corning Incorporated’s principal, longest-serving and highly respected distributors of Macor Machinable Glass Ceramic, Precision Ceramics has extensive in-house machining facilities – including 4th & 5th axis machining centres, drilling, grinding, machining, milling, polishing, sawing, tapping, threading and turning of Macor – to enable us to manufacture machinable glass ceramic components to the highest specifications.
A fully controlled inspection facility with co-ordinated measurement system accurate to 0.02mm is also in operation to ensure that our rigorous quality standards are maintained at all times. See also our post on the Composition of Macor in our Macor series from more information on it’s composition, compounds and microstructure.
Click on any of the thumbnails to enjoy the latest images of finished Macor components exclusively manufactured at Precision Ceramics’ UK headquarters in Central Birmingham.
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Macor®
Machinable Glass Ceramic
Macor is a hybrid glass-ceramic with the machinability of a metal, and the performance of an advanced technical ceramic. Macor is an excellent thermal and electrical insulator.
Macor Composition
In this post we evaluate the the composition of Macor, the compounds included and it’s microstructure. Macor is an outstanding engineering material and is machinable with ordinary metalworking tools.
