Ferro - Performance Pigments and Colors

Ferro’s Performance Pigments and Colors Division supplies innovative and functional surface decoration coatings and colours for the ceramics industry.

Main focus at the trade show will be lead-free products.

For the clay roofing tile industry, the product range of glazes and engobes will be on show. This combines the latest trends with well-established products. Lead- and calcium-free, craze-resistant glazes play a key role here. Ferro will also be presenting functional pigments and glasses as well as rings for firing process optimization.

Hall A6, Stand 421/522

Issue 2/2020 Alexander Baldus

Cobalt savings in roofing tile glazes with new developments of black colour frits

1 Problem definition Owing to a very high cobalt price and its fluctuations, caused in particular by the high and increasing demand for cobalt in electric mobility, the prices for glazes and engobes...

Issue 06/2010

Business acquisitions in decoration materials for ceramics and glass products between Heraeus and Ferro

Heraeus and Ferro Corporation (NYSE:FOE) announced that they have signed a contract to acquire from each other certain business lines concerning decoration materials for ceramic and glass products....

Issue 04/2013

The hidden perils of glazing building ceramics

1 Problem description In the late 1990s, an incident was reported in the roofing tile industry in which a large number of around one- to two-year-old glazed roofing tiles had become discoloured, as...

Issue 9/2010 Market review

Surface refinement options for heavy clay products

1 Introduction As visual beings, humans are able to see colours. No wonder then, that colours play an important role in all facets of our lives. Chromic diversity reflects the fact that we are able to...

Issue 7/2015

Tasteful engobes and glazes – as individual as you yourself!

Wendel GmbH, a German manufacturer of engobes and glazes, will once again be presenting its products at ceramitec. Visitors from the ceramic industry can expect an unimaginable variety of colours in...

ZI 04/2012