Cutting Ceramics with Fire & Water

Cutting Ceramics with Fire & Water

Over the years there have been many great movies involving fire and water and the fantasy drama television series ‘Game of Thrones’ has done much to take two of the earth’s most natural elements to a whole new level.

Behind the scenes, fire and water provide a slightly less glamorous […]

What are Machinable Ceramics?

What are Machinable Ceramics?

For most people, ceramics are hard, brittle materials, mostly associated with tiles, bricks, and pottery. These functional and mostly clay-based materials are the most common ceramics in daily use.  The more specialist technical ceramics used in extreme environments and demanding […]

Macor Components

Macor Components

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,...

Macor Composition

Macor Composition

Macor machinable glass ceramic is a white, odourless, porcelain-like (in appearance) material composed of approximately 55% fluorophlogopite mica and 45% borosilicate glass. It has no known toxic effects; however, the dust created in machining can be an irritant. This...

Macor Brazing Guide

Macor Brazing Guide

Precision Ceramics is a Macor distributor and expert. In fact, there is no other Macor Supplier who knows more about this unique machinable glass ceramic than Precision Ceramics. We’re also experts in Macor Metallization and publishers of the Macor Technical Bulletin....