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Factory storeroom with blue metal shelving stacked with finished ceramic tubes and parts.

Customers

Trusted by semiconductor, instrument and furnace makers.

Our tubes, insulators and crucibles work inside crystal-growth furnaces, thermocouples and industrial furnaces. Most of our customers have ordered from us for years.

alumina tubes shipped
21 million
years in operation
42
Certified quality system for thermocouple protection tubes
ISO 9001:2015
Lab-tested alumina tube sample (report 26-04928)
99.61% Al₂O₃

Track record

customers served
100+
repeat customers
100+
pieces shipped, 2024⁠–⁠2026
1.4 million+
alumina tubes shipped since 1984
21 million

We supplied thermocouple protection tubes for the expansion of China’s solar industry.

Pieces shipped 2024⁠–⁠2026: from our sales records.

Industries

Where our ceramics work

Where our parts sit in each process, what we supply, and who buys it.
Illustrative image (AI-generated): five dark mirror-polished gallium arsenide wafers and a dark crystal ingot on a light grey background.

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Compound-semiconductor crystal growth

Who: Several substrate makers. This is our largest product line.

Long flat twin-bore insulators hold the thermocouples inside vertical-gradient-freeze furnaces, where gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium single crystals are grown. The wafers cut from them end up in data-centre lasers, 5G chips and satellite solar cells.

What we supply

Flat and round twin-bore insulators, 1.2 m and longer, made to drawing

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A bundle of flat oval twin-bore alumina insulators tied with a clear strap, ends facing the camera, on a dark charcoal-grey background.
Illustrative image (AI-generated): three thermocouple assemblies with cream alumina protection tubes on a light grey background.

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Temperature measurement

Who: 10+ thermocouple and instrument makers

Protection tubes and multi-bore insulators for thermocouple and instrument makers, including platinum-rhodium thermocouples that measure up to about 1,600 °C. Most reorder every few weeks.

What we supply

Closed-end protection tubes, 1- to 4-bore insulators and insulator beads

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Bundles of long cream-coloured alumina protection tubes with closed ends, tied with yellow bands, on a dark charcoal-grey background.
Illustrative image (AI-generated): clear optical glass blanks, two lenses and a prism on a light grey background.

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Optical glass and advanced alloys

Who: Optical-glass and specialty-alloy producers

Our corundum tubes and insulators work in the melting, annealing and heat-treatment furnaces of optical-glass and specialty-alloy producers, where the ceramic has to stay stable and clean at high temperature.

What we supply

Open-ended corundum tubes, insulators and parts made to drawing

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A long row of finished alumina tubes laid side by side on a dark charcoal-grey background.
End-on view of several hundred open-ended cream tubes in at least two diameters, lying on a rack of steel scaffold tubes.

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Industrial furnaces and metallurgy

Who: Furnace builders, and steel and metallurgy plants

Work tubes, drilled and threaded tubes and custom parts for furnace builders and metal plants. We have shipped tubes 160 mm in diameter, and single tubes 5,595 mm long.

What we supply

Furnace work tubes, perforated tubes and parts made to drawing

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Ivory ceramic tubes standing against a plain grey background, each with an oblong slot near the top and a line of small round holes down one side.
Illustrative image (AI-generated): coils of platinum and copper wire, alumina crucibles, a short alumina tube and a metal sample on a light grey background.

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Research institutes and laboratories

Who: Materials research institutes and laboratories

Crucibles, boats, tubes and insulators for materials research, including institutes that make platinum thermocouple wire and special alloys.

What we supply

Crucibles, boats, tubes and insulators

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Ivory alumina crucibles of many sizes on a dark charcoal-grey surface: large and tapered crucibles at the back, one with a flat lid, and small cups in front.

Already in use abroad

Our tubes and insulators are already in use in Europe and South Korea through export partners.

We describe our customers rather than name them, to keep their business with us confidential. Industry images are AI-generated illustrations, not the customers’ own plants or products. The furnace-tube photo is our own.

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Start with samples, then order at volume.

Tell us the dimensions, grade and quantity. We confirm the grade, dimensions and tolerances in each quotation. Our yearly lab reports are available on request.

Custom parts, usually from
100 pcs
Samples for approval
5–10 pcs
Production, usually
25–30 days
Standard sizes from stock, small to bulk orders
~3⁠–⁠7 days