The company has expertise in the development of special materials (ceramics, ceramic-composites) for extreme environments and in the manufacturing of top-end products based on them. The company has skills in the synthesis and conditioning of new materials, starting from precursors and on the shaping and densification of these materials into final parts. The shaping processes, available in the company, are slip casting, pressure casting, cold isostatic pressing and green machining. The densification processes, available in the company, are conventional sintering and pressure-assisted sintering (spark plasma sintering and hot-pressing).

The company has a solid background in the development and consolidation of oxidic ceramic materials (Zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide and its composites) and non-oxidic ceramics (machinable aluminum nitride, boron nitride composites, graphite-metal carbide composites, refractory metals - Mo, W, Cermets - TiC, TiN, and custom-made sputtering targets).

Nanoker supplies its products to different market sectors: big science, automotive, oil and gas, jewelry, metal forming, chemical and thin-film industry.

Tecnologies and capabilities

- Spark plasma sintering: Pressure assisted sintering technology to produce special materials (i.e. graphite-molybdenum material for collimators) and to join dissimilar materials (i.e. refractory metals to ceramics).

- Cold isostatic pressing: To produce green bodies to be processed in further steps into final shape.

- Green Machining: Precision shaping to green bodies by using CAD/CAM technologies.

- Conventional sintering: sintering furnaces under oxidic atmospheres up to 1800ºC.

- Grinding: Finishing on hard ceramics.

- Slip casting: Slurry formulation and production of parts.