INDUSTRIES & APPLICATIONS

Applications

Quietly shaping our world

Solutions in Ceramics

In the evolving world of materials science, McDanel ceramics make critical contributions, hidden within the core of countless cutting-edge technologies and life-changing applications. With their unique combination of properties, including extreme hardness, biocompatibility, thermal resistance, and corrosion resilience, our ceramics have left indelible marks across diverse sectors, including the aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor, and manufacturing and research industries.

Temperature Sensing

  • Semi-conductor Processing
  • Solar Cell Manufacturing
  • Heat-treating
  • Glass Manufacturing
  • Molten Metal Processing

Furnace

  • Lab Furnaces
  • Industrial Furnaces
  • Analytical Instruments

Instrument Systems

  • Heat treating furnaces 
  • Glass furnaces
  • Analytical equipment
  • Aircraft sensors, de-icing terminals etc. 
Metallurgy
  • Molten aluminum processing
  • Welding
  • Primary steel manufacturing
  • Galvanizing
Labware/Crucibles
  • Various Materials Development Labs
  • Processing Phosphors
  • Processing Piezoelectrics
  • Powder Calcination
  • Melting Dental Alloys
  • Gemstone Purification

Other

  • Chemical Processing
  • Corona Treating
  • Crystal Growth
  • Fiber Optics Manufacturing
  • Investment Casting
  • Lasers
  • Lighting
  • Ozone Generation
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Aerospace & Defense . Semiconductor & Medical . Manufacturing & Research .

McDANEL VALUE

Manufacturing, technical
expertise & Project Work

Expertise throughout the component lifecycle

Experience our wide range of machining capabilities; deep knowledge of materials and applications; strong engineer-to-engineer communication capabilities; premier ability to produce custom parts; frictionless collaboration with your project teams; and powerful ingenuity when exploring new processes or materials.

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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