Ceratizit
| corporation | |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Mamer, Luxembourg |
Key people | Jacques Lanners (MD) |
| Products | Powder-metallurgical, sintered hard metal products |
| Website | www.ceratizit.com |
CERATIZIT Group is a manufacturer of hard material products for wear protection and cutting tools. These products are sold to customers from the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, the oil industry, medical systems, electronics and tools and mould construction.[1] The company is the world's fourth largest producer of hard metals. CERATIZIT S.A. is 50%-owned by Plansee Holding AG, with the remaining shares being held by private owners.
History
CERATIZIT S.A. was created in 2002 as the result of a merger between the companies CERAMETAL (founded in 1931) and Plansee Tizit (founded in 1985).[2] CERAMETAL was founded in Walferdange, Luxembourg, by Nicolas Lanners. In 1948, the cooperation started between CERAMETAL and the company then known as Plansee GmbH. In 1979, CERAMETAL launched production operations in the USA and the first ceramic parts were manufactured in 1988. In 1996, Instrument AG in Bulgaria was incorporated in Plansee Tizit while, at the same time, collaboration got underway with Siel to form Siel Tizit Ltd. in the Indian city of Kolkata. Following the start-up of CERATIZIT S.A in 2002, the company opened sales offices in Brazil, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. In 2007, new administrative premises were unveiled in Mamer and Reutte, while sales and marketing offices were opened in China, Mexico and Spain. In 2007, CERATIZIT acquired Newcomer Products, Inc., a private company based in Latrobe/Pennsylvania.[3] In 2010, CERATIZIT and CB Carbide combined their Asian activities within the joint venture company CB-CERATIZIT in which both CERATIZIT and the members of CB Carbide possess a 50% holding.[4] In 2011, Ceratizit moved its USA corporate headquarters from Latrobe, PA to Warren, Michigan.
Sites
CERATIZIT S.A. has its headquarters office in Mamer, Luxembourg. With a workforce of 9,000 employees (2018), CERATIZIT S.A. operates 34 production sites in Europe, North America and Asia and has a sales network of over 70 branch offices. The company possesses more than 1,000 patents worldwide and manufactured more than 10 billion sintered parts in 2010.
Products
CERATIZIT develops, produces and markets solutions for cutting and wear applications in selected industry sectors from powder to (semi-)finished products and coated components based on hard metals, cermets or technical ceramics.
- Drilling tools
- Milling tools
- Thread cutting tools
- Turning tools
- Parting and grooving tools
- Multi-function tools
CERATIZIT's cutting solutions are used for the machining of wheel sets, bearings, turbines and rollers. Important sectors for the company include the automotive and aerospace industries, toolmakers and the petrochemicals industry. In this last sector, CERATIZIT's hard metal parts are used during the machining of couplings and pipes for the transportation of oil and natural gas.
Hard metal rods
- Rods, unground or ground
- Rods with coolant holes
- Preformed blanks for milling and drilling tools
Products for wear resistance
- Discs
- Blanks for PCBs
- Tool and die blanks for cutting and punching tools
- Blanks for metal forming solutions technology
- Knives
- Nozzles
- Hobs
- Milling rollers
- Circular Round and flat hard metal parts
The company's wear products are used in metal forming applications where they are employed for cold heading tools, drawing dies and mandrels, cold forming tools as well as tools used for the manufacture of nails, rivets and screws. Products for wood machining and rock stone working
- Saw tips
- Wood drill tips
- Blanks for profiling and routers
- Indexable knives
- Rods and strips
- Hammer tips
- Masonry tips