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
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European students and post-docs to attend the Fall Meeting of the Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) in Seoul, Korea, from 30th September to 2nd October 2026.
15 PhD positions open in REFFRACTEUR – EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY is a partner!
REFFRACTEUR, a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Network (DN-ID), has been selected for funding by the European Commission.
Information
Contact us for any information: info@ecers.org - We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium