Chip Component Materials
Ferro`s chip component materials business merges the activities of Ferro`s multiple locations for the production of these materials.
Additives and Setter Sands: Ferro offers an extensive line of titanate, zirconate, stannate and oxide additives designed for use in ceramic capacitor dielectric formulations. Several setter sands used in firing multilayer ceramic capacitors are also available.
Barium Titanates: Ferro Electronic Materials manufactures the world`s broadest line of solid-state and chemically precipitated barium titanates.
Binder Materials and Systems: Ferro is unique among material suppliers to component manufacturers in offering organic binder materials and systems designed for coating and casting dielectric tapes and other film products.
Dielectric Formulations for Ceramic Capacitors: Ferro`s extensive line of dielectric formulations for ceramic capacitors includes products compatible with precious metal and base metal electrode systems.
Electrode Pastes: Ferro offers a complete line of electrode products, which are compatible with a broad set of dielectric materials.
Termination Pastes: Pastes designed especially for compatibility with the leading equipment available to the industry as well as with a variety of dielectric systems are an important segment of Ferro`s chip component materials business.
CMP & Surface Finishing Materials
Surface Finishing Materials manufactures a wide range of aluminum, cerium and zirconium oxides, as well as silica polishes. These products are used for surfacing ceramic, glass, metal and plastic substrates. The CMP products find application in planarizing various levels of semiconductor chips. The metal oxides produced are supplied as powders and preformulated compositions to meet specific customer requirements. Compositions can be prepared in either, dry, aqueous or non-aqueous vehicle systems.
Aluminum Oxide: The aluminum oxide product line consists of polishing products that are produced as powders and slurries.
Cerium Oxide: Ferro Electronic Materials is the world`s leading supplier of cerium oxide polishing compounds.
CMP: Alumina and ceria powders, Aqueous slurries of ceria, Aqueous slurries of alumina, Formulated STI slurries for high and low selectivity, Formulated slurry for copper
Silica: The TIZOX® line of silica products are engineered to meet the critical needs of the semiconductor industry.
Zirconium Oxide: We manufacture zirconium oxide products which are used in specialty applications.
Electronic and Specialty Glass
Ferro`s Electronic and Specialty Glass group offers a wide spectrum of standard products as well as specializing in custom and proprietary formulations.
Binding Agents, Glazes & Sealants: Protective and insulating overglazes, binding agents and sealants for a variety of ceramic, metal, glass parts and substrates.
Dental Glasses: Standard x-ray opaque glass powders and inorganic fillers for use in dental restorations.
Display Devices: Display sealing glasses and dielectrics-low-temperature lead glasses for hermetic sealing and passivation of soda lime glass packages, including plasma display panels and tubes.
Low-Temperature Sealing: Low-temperature sealing glasses comprised of lead-borate (vitreous) and lead-zinc-borate crystallizing glasses formulated to meet specific thermal expansion requirements - hermetic and compression sealing of IC packages, plasma displays, CRTs, ferrites, fiber optics, as well as other ceramic, metal and glass substrate materials.
Metal Sealing: Metal sealing glasses for sealing metal packages and parts, including matched seals for Kovar, molybdenum, nickel, copper, and aluminum; and compression seals for stainless steel and iron with alloy pins.
Passivation Glasses - High Voltage (Zn-B-Silicates): Zinc-Boro-Silicate passivation glasses for hermetic passivation of high voltage diodes, thyristors, and transistors. Also used for encapsulation of rectifiers using glass beading application methods.
Passivation Glasses (Pb-B-Si-Al; Pb-Si-Al; Si-Pb-Al Silicates): Used on transistors, thyristors, and diodes can be applied by a variety of techniques including photo-spin, spin coat, doctor blading, sedimentation, screen printing, and electrophoresis.
Specialty Glasses: Compositions for specialty applications including sintering aids used in the glass-phase bonding of refractory ceramic oxides and glass-ceramics for substrates.
Thick Film Glasses: Standard and custom glass products for thick film compositions including resistors, conductors, end terminations, overglazes, and dielectrics.
Metal Powder and Flake Products
Ferro`s Metal Products group offers a broad range of standard precious and base metal products: Copper Powder and Flakes, Gold Powder and Flake, Palladium Powder and Flake, Platinum Powder and Flake, Silver Coated Copper, Silver Flake, Silver Powder and Silver-Palladium Powder
Microcircuit and Specialty Thick Film Materials
Ferro`s microcircuit and specialty thick film materials represent a comprehensive range of products for the production of advanced electronic devices and packages.
- Aluminum Nitride Circuit Materials
- Base Metal and Refractory Materials
- Display and PDP Materials
- Hybrid and Microcircuit Materials
- LTCC Materials
- MEMS and Sensor Materials
- Metal Core Substrate Materials
- Photovoltaic Materials
- Surge Protection Materials
Process Temperature Control Rings
Porcelain Enamel
Ferro is the world`s leading supplier of porcelain enamel. Porcelain enamel has long been used as an ultimate-quality, highly durable and sanitary finish on large and small appliances, cookware and grills, as well as sanitaryware, water heaters, building panels, signage and chemical storage vessels.
The electrostatic application of porcelain enamel in a powder form, an earlier development by Ferro, continues to give manufacturers an energy-efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional wet application.
Ferro pioneered ready-to-use porcelain enamel formulations for liquid applications, which are gaining rapid acceptance by manufacturers because they require no adjustments or modifications prior to their application. New industrialized countries represent a large growth market for ceramic and porcelain, as the demand for modern convenience increases in these countries. Porcelain enamel is a glass that is bonded to metal (generally carbon steel, stainless steel, cast iron or aluminum) at temperatures from 1000°F - 1600°F. Centuries-old artifacts containing porcelain enamel have been found, highlighting the permanence of the coating.
