Silicon Carbide Ceramics Companies

Silicon Carbide Ceramics Market

October 2023- South Korea's SKC Ltd.announced on October 27th that it would sell the fine ceramics business of its subsidiary SK enpulse, a semiconductor materials investment firm, to the domestic private equity fund Hahn & Company. SK Enpulse held a board meeting on Monday to transfer the fine ceramics business to Hahn & Co. for 360 billion won ($267 million). The company plans to complete the transaction by Jan. next year. Fine ceramics refer to materials that enhance electrical characteristics and durability over conventional ceramic materials, using high-purity inorganic compounds. SK impulse supplies various parts required for semiconductor and display processes based on key fine ceramics materials such as alumina (aluminum oxide), silicon, silicon carbide, quartz, and others. This has contributed to increasing the proportion of domestically produced semiconductor materials and components. SKC has been accelerating its restructuring of the semiconductor business, focusing on higher-value new businesses. The company sold SK enpulse's wet chemicals and cleaning, invested in the US semiconductor packaging technology company Chipletz, and acquired semiconductor test solution company ISC.

November 2023- Austrian research institute Wood K Plus makes 95% silicon carbide ceramics more sustainable (>85% bio/recycled content) and enables 3D shapes via extrusion, injection molding, and 3D printing. Wood K Plus is a research institute founded in 2000 as the competence center for bio-based materials in Austria. Christoph Unterweger, team leader of fibers, carbon, and ceramics, said that they started as a competence center for wood chemistry and wood composites. He further added that they now focus on quite a broad range of topics regarding bio-based materials and resource-efficient processes.

October 2023- Lithoz GmbH, a global market and innovation leader in ceramic 3D printers, has recently installed new CeraMax V900 and CeraFab 2M30 3D printers at their new home, Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Both machines represent the leading edge of ceramic material development, each in its way opening completely new dimensions in processing high-performance ceramics. They will also be the first of their kind on the North American continent, offering Dalhousie unique innovation advantages via the combination of these two printers' specific strengths.

Key players are Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo Japan), ROHM Co. Ltd. (Kyoto Japan), Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics N.V. and CREE INC.