About us
Saint-Gobain Quartz
Saint-Gobain Quartz is a business unit of the Saint-Gobain group that supplies a wide range of industries with high quality quartz materials and products, such as Quartzel® fused quartz fibers used in Aeronautics and fused quartz crucibles used in Semiconductor and Industrial applications.
In addition, Saint-Gobain Quartz also manufactures Micaver®, a unique glass/mica composite material used for the manufacturing of electrical insulators for the railway and other industries powered by electricity.
A decade ago, Saint-Gobain Quartz introduced SilPower®, an unchallenged range of infra-red reflectors allowing heating systems for various industries to perform at their utmost performance leading to significant energy savings.
Saint-Gobain Quartz has a long history of quartz manufacturing, dating back to 1922, and has pioneered new quartz manufacturing processes since then. Among the past and present licencees of Saint-Gobain Quartz technology are Momentive Quartz (tube manufacturing), QSil (cylindrical ingot manufacturing), Sumitomo and Mitsubishi Materials (crucible manufacturing), Corning (siloxane-based synthetic silica) and many more.
Today, Saint-Gobain Quartz materials are manufactured in two plants (France and Kentucky-USA). Our sales network and production facilities cover the world and are connected with each other in order to provide our customers the best local service with global support. For a representative near you please Contact us .

Foundation of Quartz & Silice by the engineer Henri George with the majority shareholding held by the Compagnie of Saint-Gobain, which today holds 100% of the shares.
Launch of the Louisville plant, in Kentucky, to ensure local production, essential to serve the American markets.
Meet our people
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