The European Ceramic Society
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Belgium
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre
Research & industrial support on technical and traditional ceramics
Director : Dr Jacques Rennotte
Email : info@bcrc.be
Phone : +32 65 40 34 21
Address : Avenue Gouverneur Cornez 4 B-7000 Mons
Website : www.bcrc.be
Research topics :
- Smart manufacturing of ceramics and composites : additive manufacturing (SLM, SLA, Binder jetting, robocasting, FDM ), laser milling-texturing, hybrid milling, hybrid AM, …
Contact information:
Dr Fabrice Petit
Tel: +32.65.40.34.64
- Technical ceramics shaping and sintering: Spark Plasma Sintering, carbides and nitrides, zirconia, transparent ceramics, functional ceramics …
Contact information:
Ir Jean-Pierre Erauw
Tel: +32.65.40.34.33
- Energy and sustainable development: functional devices, energy storage, circular economy, …
Contact information:
Dr Maria Traianidis
Tel: +32.65.40.34.63
- Refractories: development of shaped and unshaped refractories, fully equipped testing laboratory
Contact information:
Dr Stéphane Hocquet
Tel: +32.65.40.34.78
- Bricks and tiles : development of processes and mixes, standard testing
Contact information: Dr Stéphane Hocquet
Tel: +32.65.40.34.78
- Flat glass and Container glass: Notified body (Id.N°1174) according to Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 - Construction products, standard testing, R&D
Contact information:
Dominique Libert
Tel: +32.65.40.34.66
- Bioceramics : scaffolds, bone implants and dental prosthesis, chemical and physical characterisation of Calcium Phosphates
Contact information:
Dr Stéphane Hocquet
Tel: +32.65.40.34.78
Exceptional facilities :
- Additive Manufacturing technologies: Selective Laser Melting, stereolithography, hybrid AM (binder jetting, laser ablation), robocasting, Fused Deposition Modelling
- Laser technologies : laser milling, hybrid milling (nanosecond laser, femtosecond laser, classical milling, 3D scanner), Laser cladding (metal, ceramic-metal composites, ceramics)
- Sintering technologies: Large Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) furnace with hybrid heating system (up to 150 mm), hot pressing (HP), pressureless sintering, sintering under H2, Ar, N, vacuum, …
- FIB-SEM with 3D EDX and EBSD mapping of samples
Financial support programmes :
- Regional funding: Wallonie (DGO6), Vlaanderen (VLAIO)
- National Funding: BELSPO, SPF Economie
- European funding: Cornet, Interreg V (France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen) …
Latest news
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust is 31st May 2025
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of July 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st May 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before August 2025.
12th March - International Day of Ceramics!
Dear Ceramic Community,
We are pleased to announce that March 12, 2025, marks the first-ever International Day of Ceramics!
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