SETTING & UPHOLDING

The highest
industry standards

We are versatile and multidisciplinary specialists demonstrating rare expertise with cylindrical ceramics.

McDanel advanced material solutions enable the aerospace, defense, manufacturing and research, medical, and semiconductor markets—mission-critical work that promotes human health, security, and connectivity.

We offer Alumina with various purity levels, including 99.8% and 99.0%. The level of purity, grain size, and density required is dependent on the application demands and the component configuration.

ALUMINA PURITY

Advanced Thermal Solutions . High Impact Applications . Breakthrough Technologies .

McDanel solutions play a crucial role in enhancing the performance of industrial products worldwide, due to their exceptional attributes including high strength, resilience in high-temperature environments, toughness, and ease of machining.

INDUSTRIES

Industrial ceramic
applications

OUR WORK

structural ceramic
applications

McDanel solutions play a crucial role in enhancing the performance of industrial products worldwide, thanks to their exceptional attributes including high strength, resilience in high-temperature environments, toughness, and ease of machining.

COMMITTED TO DELIVERING

Solutions that enable global transformation

Embracing Change

Excellence means never standing still. We believe quality exists on a continuum that is composed of equal parts hard work and thought leadership.

Focus on Partnership

We succeed by establishing engineer-to-engineer relationships that promote discussion, partnership, new ideas, and trust throughout every step of the development process.

100 years of Innovation

We are rooted in the Steel City of Pittsburgh, where in 1919 we first built products to support the troops during WWI. Today we combine expertise, optimism, ingenuity, and pride to lead the rebirth of American Industrial Tech.

Agility & Expertise . Longevity & Ingenuity . Collaboration & Partnership .
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McDanel is different than other industry suppliers in that their customer service is responsive and creates positive solutions. We can count on McDanel to perform professionally and support our needs.

McDanel Customer

We value working with McDanel because we both hold high values of collaboration and moral duty to facilitate a win-win relationship. McDanel understands their products are critical components to ours. Authentic interest in our company's well-being is conveyed which is largely not found in today's supply chain.

McDanel Customer

McDanel has helped our company solve the challenge of partnering with a ceramics industry supplier that can provide reliable and repeatable products. McDanel has worked in collaboration with our team over the years to hold tight tolerances and back their products if issues arise.

McDanel Customer

The quality at McDanel is better than other companies and customer satisfaction is very high. Additionally, we can rely on McDanel to respond promptly to our detailed needs. Also, productivity has increased due to improved yield in assembly by using McDanel ceramic tubes.

McDanel Customer

We order our ceramic components only from McDanel. Even if we could save money with another supplier, we wouldn't switch. We are not cost sensitive, we are quality sensitive.

Allen T. McDanel Customer

I love the variety of what we do. We start with something raw and make it remarkable. I love this because the ideation goes from beginning to end.

Tony Finoli—PhD Director of R&D and Technology

What got me interested in ceramics is the fact that ceramics enable technologies that can’t be done in any other way.

John Dodsworth—PhD Chief Technology Advisor