FERRO CORPORATION

Performance Materials Company

Ferro is a leading producer of performance materials sold to a broad range of manufacturers.  Ferro materials enhance the performance of products in a variety of end markets, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, building and renovation, appliances, transportation, household furnishings, and industrial products.

Technology-Based Performance Materials

Ferro is a leading global producer of technology-based performance materials for manufacturers, ranking as the world`s largest supplier of:

• Electronic materials for passive components used in the manufacture of multilayer ceramic capacitors
• Specialty glass and colorants
• Ceramic glaze frit and stain technology
• Porcelain enamel frit.

In the United States, Ferro holds strong market positions in polymer additives and specialty plastic compounds and colorants. 

Ferro materials enhance the performance of products in a variety of end markets, including electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, building and renovation, appliances, automotive, household furnishings, and industrial products.

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferro has global operations selling products in more than 100 countries and employs approximately 7,000 people.

Markets Served

Our innovative performance materials add value to a wide range of consumer and industrial products in a number of diversified end-use markets. Thousands of manufacturers around the world - including some of the largest and best known - rely on us to ensure the improved performance of their products and processes.

Many of these manufacturers look to Ferro as a total supplier of performance materials for diverse and demanding applications. Supporting our products are highly skilled technical sales and service representatives who work closely with customers to find solutions to their specific challenges.

Electronic Material Systems

Ferro`s electronic materials business develops, manufactures and markets high-purity powders, pastes, and tapes for many electronic applications.

Products: Electronic & specialty glasses, ceramic dielectric powders, pastes, powders & tapes for thick film, surface finishing compounds
Markets: Electronics, telecommunications, computers, automotive, ophthalmic lenses/precision optics, military & defense, aerospace

Color & Glass Performance Materials

Ferro`s Color & Glass performance materials business deals with a range of products in dinnerware systems, glass systems and performance pigments and color.

Products: Inorganic pigments, forehearth color, glass decorating enamels, specialty glazes, precious metal preparations
Markets: Paint & plastics, glass packaging, tableware, fine china, roof tile, appliances, automotive, architectural

Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals

Ferro`s Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals business deals with pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals and the products in each category.

Products: High-potency active pharmaceutical ingredients, low endotoxin carbohydrates, large volume parenterals, food additives, dietary supplements, electrolytes, glymes, phosphine derivatives
Markets: Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, electronics, industrial

Polymer Additives

Ferro Polymer Additives improve the characteristics of or the processing of, plastics. Our products include heat and light stabilizers, plasticizers and lubricants.

Products: Heat & light stabilizers, plasticizers, plastic lubricants
Markets: Household furnishings, automotive, industrial, architectural, construction

Porcelain Enamel

We are also the world`s largest supplier of porcelain enamel used for protecting cookware, small and large appliances as well as sanitaryware, water heaters and building panels. Ferro produced the first all porcelain enamel home in 1932 in South Euclid, Ohio.

Products: Porcelain enamel coatings
Markets: Appliances, cookware, sanitary ware, architectural, industrial

Specialty Plastics

Products: Filled & reinforced thermoplastics, polyolefin alloys, thermoplastic elastomers/process melt, color concentrates/masterbatch, gelcoats, liquid & paste color dispersions
Markets: Appliances, automotive, household furnishings, recreation, industrial, lawn & garden, pool & spa, packaging, boats, RVs & trucks, sanitary ware, architectural

Tile Coating Systems

Ferro is the world`s leading supplier of ceramic glaze coatings, and is a major supplier of ceramic color. The ceramic floor and wall tile industry is a major market for Ferro.

Products: Ceramic glaze coatings, ceramic colors, decorative materials & application systems
Markets: Tile, sanitary ware

Fine Chemicals & Pharmaceutical Products

Ferro`s fine chemicals intermediates are used in the manufacture of Lithium batteries, electronic materials, polymers, specialty resins, plasticizers, pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals, photochemicals, detergents and antioxidants. Ferro also provides major chemical manufacturers with custom synthesis for the production of complex, high-valued chemicals.

Ferro produces high-value Fine Chemicals and intermediates. Our products are used in many pharmaceutical, electronic and chemical industrial applications.

1,3-Dioxolane

1,3-dioxolane is a colorless liquid that is miscible with water and most common organic solvents. It is a very good solvent for lacquers and resins and can be used for paint remover and thinner. It is useful in mixtures with glycol or glycol ethers to dissolve difficult-to-dissolve components such as pesticides, herbicides and wood preservatives. It is a stabilizer for glues, impregnating resins and dispersions.

Dioxolane Use in Adhesives

Solutions of crystalline polyesters are used in heat-sealable coatings and adhesive applications. The polyesters were formally known to be soluble only in highly toxic solvents such as dioxane and chlorinated solvents. Uses for these adhesives are heat-seal lids for food products such as butter, yogurt and jelly. They are used in packaging for foods to be microwaved or oven heated, and as industrial laminates, such as in sail cloth, cable wrap, flexible circuitry and solar protection film.

Aryl Phosphines - Commercially Available

Ferro Corporation has long been recognized as a reliable supplier of aryl phosphorous derivatives to industrial consumers. This product line continues to grow, and Ferro now provides both reactive intermediates and finished products to the polymer industry.

Aryl Phosphines - In Development

Tri-substituted alkyl or aryl phosphines Mono-substituted alkyl or aryl phosphines

Aryl Phosphines - Pilot Plant Quantities

Aryl Phosphines -Laboratory Quantities

Benzene Phosphonic Dichloride (Phenyldichlorophosphine oxide) Benzene Phosphonic Acid (Phenylphosphonic acid) Xylyl Phosphonous Dichloride, Mixture of Isomers

Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries

Ferro primary and secondary proprietary lithium battery formulations are used in a large number of applications which include cellular phones, laptop computers, cameras, pacemakers, hearing aids, smoke detectors, military applications, ultra capacitors and hybrid vehicles.

Glymes ``Glycol Diethers`` and Specialty Solvents

Glymes, also known as glycol diethers, are some of the most powerful solvents available today for an incredibly wide variety of industrial processes and products. Glymes are saturated polyethers with no functional groups; hence, they are aprotic compounds that are relatively inert chemically. These features account for their excellent solvent properties. In general, glymes are most frequently used in reactions involving metals, inorganic salts and organometallics. Common examples are grignard reactions, reactions of alkali metals, anionic polymerization, metal hydride reactions and hydrobrominations.

Gold Recovery

While the use of solvent extraction to recover metals is not new technology, it is an under-utilized technology even though there is ample evidence and experience validating this technique. In many cases, solvent extraction can provide significant reductions in operational costs in comparison to more traditional methods of metal recovery and refining.

Grignard Solvents

A true, clear, single-phase grignard solution (2.5 M) can be directly produced in butyl diglyme. For commercial processes, grignards made with butyl diglyme are safer and more environmentally friendly. This is a result of the high flash point and water insolubility characteristics of butyl diglyme.

Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories will help bring your new product to market. We provide Contract and Custom Manufacturing Services of your proprietary or unique Carbohydrate Chemicals, regulated Drug Delivery Substances, Injectable Formulation Ingredients, Injectable Solutions, Pharmaceutical Intermediates or high potency Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients.

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API`s), Potent Drugs and Intermediates

Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories (FPL) has been a producer of proprietary and cGMP pharmaceutical ingredients for more than 35 years. We provide process development, analytical method development and validation, as well as Drug Master File creation and maintenance. FPL currently maintains more than 20 active Drug Master Files covering API`s, intermediates and injectable drug formulation ingredients.

Biotechnology

Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories (FPL) is a reliable, commercial producer of rare and specialized carbohydrates / sugars.

Carbohydrates

Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories is recognized globally as a reliable producer of commercial quantities of high purity, rare and specialized carbohydrates / sugars. Our key capabilities go beyond our expertise in carbohydrate chemistry. We have unique expertise in: performing complex chemistries at commercial scale, isolating rare sugars from natural botanical sources, and purifying rare sugars utilizing unique and proprietary chromatographic, filtration and crystallization techniques. We know where and how to source unique carbohydrate raw material feed stock to assure that your new product pipeline is supportable, and economically viable.

Dietary and Nutrition

Consumers of dietary and nutritional supplements want assured quality and guaranteed efficacy. When you buy from Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories (FPL), you can offer them pharmaceutical-grade products manufactured in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) established by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Excipients and Drug Delivery

Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories (FPL) is the leading US producer of sodium and potassium lactate solutions used to manufacture peritoneal dialysis solutions, lactated Ringer`s solution and other large volume parenteral solutions. Pharmaceutical and IV solution producers throughout the Western Hemisphere use our products.

Food & Cosmetics

Customers come to Ferro Pfanstiehl Laboratories (FPL) for our advanced capabilities in chemical manufacturing, process scale-up, quality and dependability. FPL is known globally as a manufacturer of high-quality pharmaceutical ingredients and rare and specialized carbohydrates / sugars. All of our products have been developed to meet our customers` exacting regulatory, quality and purity requirements.

Electronic Material Systems & Porcelain Enamel

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.

Dinnerware Systems/Liquid Coatings & Dispersions

Body and Glaze Stains

Ferro is the largest supplier of ceramic pigments (stains) in the world.  Color plants are established in all the major ceramic manufacturing countries and laboratory facilities. Ferro pigments are man-made materials, which closely duplicate the properties of their natural parents, which have withstood the corrosive action of the sun, wind and rain for centuries.

Decoration Colors

Under the brand name of CerDeColor, Ferro offers an extensive choice of low toxic metal release and lead-, & cadmium-free Deco Colors to meet the exacting performance demands of the ceramic industry in the 21st century.

• Indio Resistant: Decorating Colors for Enamel
• Palette 70: Resistant Porcelain Colors
• Azurico: Brilliant Blue Resistant Onglaze Colors
• Sunshine: Low Metal Release Onglaze Colors
• SambaPlus: Unleaded Onglaze Colors
• Fantasie: Unleaded Onglaze Metallic Colors
• Fiesta: Low Metal Release Inglaze Colors
• SkyPlus: Unleaded Inglaze Colors
• SpringtimeII: Unleaded Underglaze Colors

Decoration Media, Covercoats & Auxiliaries

Ferro is one of the major producers of Oils and Media for the decoration of ceramics with a long tradition of pacesetting innovation and continuous product improvement. The company offers water-, wax-, and solvent-based media to suit the principal application methods employed in the industry, together with a specialized range of screen printing media and covercoats for the manufacture of both waterslide and heat release decals. For the decal printers, Ferro media and covercoats can be offered in liquid form and a variety of thixotropic consistencies.

Frits and Glazes

Ferro offers a wide range of Ceramic Frits and Glazes for all applications. Ferro supplies most of the world`s leading manufacturers of Fine Ceramics (Dinnerware, Cookware & Giftware) with their ceramic coatings.

Specifically, Ferro has been at the forefront of the development of Unleaded Glazes for Dinnerware and Cookware and can, therefore, guarantee that its products contain less than 0.1% PbO, with every individual batch being subjected to third party accreditation for lead content, irrespective of batch size. This in turn ensures that Ferro customers have access to full traceability in their manufacturing process.

Precious Metal Preparations

The Ferro ``CerDecOr`` Precious Metal Preparations (PMP) and Lustres create high quality decorations of great beauty and durability on porcelain, bone china, fine china, stoneware, earthenware and glass.

Ferro Precious Metal Preparations are offered in a variety of color tones and surface finishes for both onglaze and inglaze firing conditions. All Ferro PMPs are designed to suit the latest trends in firing conditions, especially the moves towards lower temperatures and fast firing cycles on Fine and Bone China and the use of high temperature, fast firing conditions for porcelain dinnerware and giftware.

CORDOBOND® Epoxy Repair systems

CORDOBOND® epoxy repair systems for industrial, marine, utility and other demanding maintenance applications produce long-lasting repairs with outstanding impact strength, tensile strength and abrasion resistance. These liquid and paste formulations bond tenaciously to most materials for effective repair of pinholes and ruptures to complete breaks in pipes, tanks, flanges, machinery casings, etc., including equipment carrying water, low-pressure steam, gases, petroleum, alcohol and caustics. Specialized grades range from CORDOBOND Sealer for small holes; to CORDOBOND Steel Putty for repairs that can be drilled, tapped and machined; to CORDOBOND Underwater Epoxy for repairs in dry, wet or submerged conditions.

PDI® Color Dispersions

PDI® color dispersions for thermoset plastics are available in a wide range of resin-matched vehicles offering total reactivity with all polyester, epoxy and polyurethane resins and compatibility with all PVC and silicone formulations. Containing up to 80 percent pigment by weight, these concentrated dispersions undergo special processing that breaks down pigment agglomerates into individual particles that are wet-out in suspension, preventing re-agglomeration and increasing opacity of the original pigment by 50 to 80 percent. Primary base colors are maintained in stock for rapid, low-cost blending of custom colors in small or large quantities.

SPECTRAFLO® Liquid Colorants

SPECTRAFLO® liquid colorants for thermoplastics are available in a range of specialized vehicles offering compatibility with all polyolefins, styrenics and engineering resins. These highly concentrated dispersions are incorporated at letdown ratios as high as 1,000 parts resin to one part color, minimizing cost and effects on physical properties.

The liquid colorant is injected into the feed throat of injection, extrusion or blow molding machines using peristaltic metering pumps, allowing fine-tuning of color levels during molding, reducing color changeover times to 10 minutes, and eliminating the need to empty and/or dry natural resin in the hopper. Primary base colors are maintained in stock for rapid, low-cost blending of custom colors in small or large volumes.

Ultra® and SuperShield® Gelcoat

Ultra® and SuperShield® gelcoats for boats, recreational vehicles, truck bodies, sanitaryware, swimming pools and other polyester and epoxy composite parts and castings produce colorful and/or clear finishes that resist moisture, chemicals, impact and UV light. Low-VOC gelcoats, based on an advanced molecule recently developed and patented by Ferro, offer properties never before available: up to 60 percent less shrinkage; significantly less overspray at equivalent viscosities; and 50 percent reductions in styrene emissions compared with gelcoats based on conventional polyester vehicles. Gelcoats utilizing both traditional and low-VOC vehicles are available in high-performance grades offering 100 to 217 percent greater gloss and color retention than gelcoats containing conventional pigments and additives. High-performance clear gelcoat is also offered, as are specialized gelcoats for sanding and tooling applications.

Tile Coating Systems

Ceramic Trends galleries

Ferro is involved in the research of materials, colors, sizes, design, as well as understanding the profile of the consumer for the years to come. The requirements of consumers, and of those who purchase ceramic tiles, are evolving at a faster rate than in the past.

Colors

Ferro is the largest supplier of ceramic stains in the world and the tile business absorbs a great part of them.

Stains for Glazes: Ferro has developed its stain range in step with the technological advances that have revolutionized ceramic tile production, and the desire to adapt to the specific needs of each and every client has always been their motivation.
Print Colors: Ferro presents its exclusive new Print Color range, printing colors especially designed to work with high definition rotary screen printing. The range offers the maximum color intensity and total integration with any fast cycle glaze.
Fast Color: New product line for dry-coloring atomized porcelanic gres through the press.
Intensity Stains for Color Matching Systems: The series consists of intense colored stains with controlled particle size distribution. This allows for a considerable reduction in preparation and storage times for the numerous screen printing pastes commonly used in the ceramic industry, whatever production and decorating technologies are selected.
Sanitary Dispersible Stains: Ferro offers an extensive variety of sanitary stains that complement your ceramic production and represent the cutting edge in new technology.
Stains for porcelain stoneware: Throughout history the ceramist has colored ceramic material. However, as new firing techniques require different body mixes, the traditional metallic oxides would not produce the required results anymore. For this reason new metallic oxide compound-based stains have been developed.
Soluble Salts: Ferro`s soluble salt colors are a new generation of liquid products that easily penetrate a ceramic body, which makes them ideal for decorating both polished and rustic tiles.

Frits

Ceramic frits are vitreous compounds, not soluble in water, obtained by melting and then rapidly cooling carefully controlled blends of raw materials. The frit production process allows the use of soluble raw materials consisting of fluxes (B, Na, K, Li, Pb), the dangerous properties of which are eliminated or reduced.

Glazes

Ferro offers a wide range of Ceramic Glazes for tile applications. Ferro supplies most of the world`s leading manufacturers of tiles with their ceramic coatings.

Granitoglass

Granitoglass is a new series of granulates specially developed by Ferro for the production of porcelain tiles using through-body and double-filling techniques. The range consists of three different products - transparent, white and opalescent - with three grain size distributions and micronised powders. By using external coloring technique, Ferro is able to create an infinite range of colors that faithfully reproduce natural granite and marble tones.

The compatibility of the granulates with porcelain tile mixes allows them to be used together with the micronised powders to create naturally transparent and three-dimensional effects. The sophisticated technical properties of these granules give porcelain tiles outstanding resistance to chemicals, staining and abrasion.

KERAjet® Digital Inkjet Printing on Ceramics

KERAjet is an ink-jet printing system developed by Ferro in the last few years. It is a 100% digital system applied to ceramic decoration through which you can create, modify, transmit and apply the design directly to the tile. This `no touch` printing system does not need any intermediate equipment (screens, rollers, etc.) to get the tile decorated. This process  is called `variable image` system and it uses a four-color-process decoration (Cyan Magenta Yellow black) to create the finished design.

KERAjet system represents a decorative system alternative to other traditional methods and opens new opportunities to creativity in ceramics.

PBA Borate Products

Our borate products provide significant advantages to our customers because of the high concentration of B2O3 and the extremely low moisture content. The actual reductions in energy consumption and production time as well as the consistent quality of our products were the main reasons that customers chose PBA`s borate products. Due to the unique geological formation of our borate materials, Ferro borate products do not contain the sulfates and chlorides normally present in competitive offerings.

Star Dust Colored Crushed Frits for Dry Applications

Star Dust is the newest Ferro range of colored crushed frits to be used in dry applications. The range consists in 15 different colored crushed frits allowing the development of ceramic surfaces looking really `natural`. They are totally intermixable in any ratio and allow unlimited shades. The same range of colors is also available for glazes to be oversprayed and brushed.

Technical Assistance - Design and Development Center

Through our Ceramic Design and Development Center (located in the world tile capitals of Spain and Italy), Ferro will pull together all the resources you need and even send technicians from Europe to assist you. You might call it a ``SWAT`` team approach. Many of our customers call it ``indispensable.``

Third-Fire Tile Decoration

A ceramic tile is far more than just a technical artifact whose chemical and physical characteristics must conform to certain standards. First and foremost it is a work of artistic design, requiring skilful use of color and decorative elements. It makes a statement, communicating who we are and what we want to say, whether at home or at work. To aid the design process, we are now offering new ranges of third fire decoration products, including lustres and precious metals. Ferro offers a broad range of high-quality products capable of meeting a wide variety of requirements.

Glass Systems and Polymer Additives

Architectural and Appliance

CerMark

CerMark laser marking materials combined with the power and speed of lasers provide high contrast, permanent marks on a variety of substrates

Conductive Pastes

Ferro produces a wide variety of silver pastes and special products for automotive glass applications, including heating grids and antennas.

Container

AcE: AcE heavy-metal-free imitation acid etch coatings and inks were developed as an environmentally friendly alternative to HF-acid etching.
Beverage: Ferro beverage products have been approved for use by many of the major bottling companies.
Cosmetic and Giftware: Product range includes more environmentally friendly lead free enamels and organic coatings and inks specifically designed for the cosmetic and giftware markets.
Other Applications: These include enamels for borosilicate glass, ampoules and lighting applications.
Tableware: These enamels are intended mainly for the decoration of glass tumblers and tableware.

Forehearth Color (FHC) Technology

Almost all colors produced in the tank can be made using FHC technology. In addition, FHC delivers many advantages over tank coloration, such as improved productivity, greater flexibility, lower inventory and shipping costs and reduced energy consumption. FHC equipment and layout design services are offered, together with a full color-matching service to suit your particular glass formulation(s).

SpecTruLite

Ferro Color and Glass Performance Materials` new SpecTruLite™ line of organic screen-printing inks and coatings provide glass decorators a full palette of heavy-metal-free colors for brilliant decorations. Multiple color effects come to life with standard and custom colors including reds and yellows.

High-performance qualities make SpecTruLite screen-printing inks and coatings ideal for use on wine, liquor and other beverage bottles, cosmetic containers, food packaging, tumblers, advertising specialties and a myriad of other uses. Ferro organic heavy-metal-free SpecTruLite inks and coatings are available in three lines: High Temperature thermoplastic spreen-printing inks (HTP), Room Temperature screen-printing inks (RTP) and WaterBorne coatings.

Tempering Enamels

Ferro offers both standard enamels and customized enamels to meet your specific requirements:

• Automotive leaded:  press-bend blacks and sag-bend blacks
• Automotive lead-free: high-durability no-stick blacks, sag-bend blacks and standard no-stick blacks

Windshield Enamels

Ferro provides both standard enamels and customized enamels to meet your specific requirements

Ferro is a global supplier of superior quality additive solutions for the polymer industry. Ferro is dedicated to safety and the protection of the environment. Our objective is to increase the economic benefits we provide for our customers through the use of technology and service excellence.

Polymer Additives

We provide technical solutions for PVC, polyolefin, urethanes, ABS, polystyrene, and rubber products.