The European Ceramic Society

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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

f.petit@bcrc.be

  • 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

jp.erauw@bcrc.be

  • Energy and sustainable development: functional devices, energy storage, circular economy, …

Contact information:

Dr Maria Traianidis

Tel: +32.65.40.34.63

m.traianidis@bcrc.be

  • Refractories: development of shaped and unshaped refractories, fully equipped testing laboratory

Contact information:

Dr Stéphane Hocquet

Tel: +32.65.40.34.78

s.hocquet@bcrc.be

  • Bricks and tiles : development of processes and mixes, standard testing

Contact information: Dr Stéphane Hocquet

Tel: +32.65.40.34.78

s.hocquet@bcrc.be

  • 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

d.libert@bcrc.be

  • 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

s.hocquet@bcrc.be

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.

Mar 13, 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!

Mar 12, 2025

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