As ceramic processes leader at Lucideon, I’m in the privileged position of working with a wide range of clients who manufacture and process many different types of ceramics, covering all of the different ceramic sectors from technical ceramics through to building products and whitewares. Although the sectors are very different in terms of the products they produce, the issues they face are often similar with variation in product performance, processing, and yield issues being the key areas of concern.

While many of these sectors have little communication with each other, the Lucideon team, specialists in specific areas who come together to work as one to tackle a client’s problems, has in-depth knowledge of challenges across all sectors. What is apparent to us is the very different approaches to processing in the different sectors and how cross-fertilization of knowledge across sectors could help to solve challenges. Simply put, what can they learn from each to improve their processing?