Technical Ceramics
Automotive
Technical Ceramics provides precision-engineered materials, components and assemblies for a wide range of automotive applications from car production to specialist vehicle build where downtime is not an option.
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Vehicle builders and automotive component manufacturers are increasingly using ceramic, as an alternative to metal, for its mechanical strength and thermal and electrical properties. We work with automotive customers, developing and manufacturing reliable, durable and cost-effective components for today’s demanding high-tech vehicle applications.
We produce kiln rollers for hot stamping and press hardening of automotive parts. Our ceramic components are capable of withstanding extreme heat, enabling them to shape durable lightweight components that reduce overall vehicle weight, increase fuel efficiency and help manufacturers meet increasingly tougher emission standards.
Our kiln furniture is used for firing of oxide honeycombs in the manufacture of catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters.
Fuel Injector Plungers
Ceramic fuel injector plungers for diesel engines
Furnace Thermocouples
Fused Silica and Mullite Rollers
Kiln Furniture
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Automotive Materials
Our advanced ceramic materials offer superior dimensional stability, shock resistance, strength, stiffness and chemical resistance across a wide range of temperatures. Our pump components are used in the cooling systems in hybrid vehicles, thanks to their high wear and corrosion resistance.
Full material breadth
From zirconia and silicon nitride fuel injector plungers to fused silica kiln rollers for hot stamping, we offer alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride, and silicon carbide components across the full range of automotive ceramic applications.
Automotive Products Capabilities
Our broad ceramic offering (alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride) produced in our world-wide, vertically-integrated manufacturing facilities (from spray drying to final tolerance grinding) enables our engineers to collaborate from concept design to the production of effective, reliable, and economical components, optimised for both performance and cost of manufacture.
Our manufacturing facilities are ISO certified and support high-volume serial production.
Automotive Ceramics Questions
What are the advantages of using ceramics in automotive applications?
Car manufacturing cannot afford unplanned downtime in its automated welding operations. Ceramic positioning pins reduce down-time by exhibiting long wear life enabling auto body parts to be precisely aligned during welding.
Reduced wear and ability to take higher surface pressures provides dramatic reductions in wear thus longer life, tighter tolerances and higher pressures also resulting in reduced emissions.
Dramatic reductions in seizing, sticking and wear of diesel fuel system components that operate with reduced lubricity and/or contaminated fuels and oils.
How are ceramics used in the manufacture of electric vehicles?
Ceramics that contain and reduce heat can be used to mitigate the thermal runaway within the EV’s battery pack by isolating the failure to the single affected battery. Efforts are underway to determine the economics and effectiveness of such solutions.
How can using ceramics in automotive manufacturing help increase fuel efficiency?
Tighter tolerances and higher pressures can be achieved using ceramic over traditional materials which helps increase fuel efficiency.
Can Morgan supply ceramic components for press hardening and hot stamping of automotive body parts?
Yes. Our fused silica and mullite rollers are used in the furnaces that thermally process high-strength steel blanks for hot stamping and press hardening. These processes produce ultra-high-strength structural components such as door pillars and sill reinforcements that reduce vehicle weight while improving crash safety.
How do ceramic components contribute to reducing vehicle emissions?
Ceramic components enable tighter manufacturing tolerances. We offer kiln furniture for the production and the heat treatment of various ceramic components in the fields of measurement and sensor technology as well as ceramic catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters. These items are essential to meeting the current emissions standards.
What ceramic materials are used in EV cooling system pumps?
Our alumina, silicon nitride and zirconia ceramic pump components are used in the cooling circuits of hybrid and battery electric vehicles. Their exceptional wear and corrosion resistance means they perform reliably in contact with the glycol-based cooling fluids used in EV battery thermal management systems, outlasting traditional metallic alternatives.
What is the advantage of zirconia over steel for diesel fuel injector plungers?
Zirconia ceramic plungers exhibit dramatically reduced wear in diesel fuel systems, particularly when fuel quality varies or contamination is present. This extends injector service life, maintains tighter fuel metering tolerances over time, and reduces maintenance costs – particularly important in commercial vehicle and off-highway applications.
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Why Ceramics?
With our world-class design expertise and specialist manufacturing capabilities we work in partnership with our automotive customers to develop competitive tailored solutions to meet their long-term needs. We produce high quality ceramic components to tight specifications in quantities from one-offs to high volume production. We supply to OEMs, racing teams as well as tier one automotive suppliers.