Process Used to Create Ceramic Bases

Cerlux, a part of the LightSources group, is a specialty manufacturer of custom ceramic components that gives us the ability to offer customers proprietary and patented lamp bases.  While the materials will vary according to your needs as well as the application’s environment, we will help you to determine the best solution for your needs. 

The process for choosing the materials is based on Al2O3 content, wear and heat resistance, insulation capacity and color.  The primary characteristics of alumina ceramic include a high melting point, mechanical strength, hardness, wear and heat resistance, heat conduction capacity, and electrical insulation capacity as well as acid and alkali resistance. 

At Cerlux, we expertly incorporate the best state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to ensure quality and to keep prices competitive for our ceramic bases and parts.  By using press injection molding, we are able to produce products with complex shapes and thin walls.  For extremely small ceramic parts like electric insulators, wear resistant grinding cylinders, tips and more, we use a hydraulic pressing machine.

Once a product is created, it is fired in kilns under extremely high temperatures.  As a way to reduce our environmental impact, we recycle the heat from our kilns to supply hot water and heat for our entire building. 

Glazing is another step in the process and is used to increase the strength of the product as well as to provide a bright, visual surface.  While a mat or shiny glaze is the most common choice of our customers, we also can do any color in the RAL or pantone palette.  A special color can be used as a way to set your product apart or to match corporate colors.  Also decals can be applied to the product after it is glazed and offer a way to have your system components stand out. 

LightSources and its affiliated companies – LCD Lighting, Voltarc, LightTech, and Cerlux represent the leading high-tech designers and manufacturers in the lamp industry today. Our standard lamps and components as well as customized products offer high-quality solutions to meet our partner’s unique needs.  We invite you to contact us to learn more about our wide selection of lamps.