Exhibition Ceramic Components
Hidden Champions in Industry and Everyday Life
When people think of ceramics, they often think of traditional applications such as tiles, bricks, roof tiles, or tableware—but today, technical ceramics are opening up entirely new areas of application. The exhibition curated by CERAMIC APPLICATIONS in the East Entrance highlights this fact.
Selected exhibits show where ceramics are already playing a decisive role today—and where they are still too rarely considered as a solution.
- Environmental protection (an artificial reef produced using 3D printing),
- Energy supply (hermetically sealed power feedthroughs),
- Aerospace (conventionally and additively manufactured SiSiC mirrors),
- Medical technology (ear molds, skull implants)
- Mechanical engineering (ceramic springs, ceramic roller bearings and hybrid bearings),
- Drying and heating processes (circular heaters, surface and line heating systems),
- Consumer and lifestyle products (grinding discs for coffee machines, jewelry, pickups for record players)
and much more
The exhibition explains the underlying material properties (high temperature and wear resistance, electrical insulation, chemical resistance, biocompatibility) and manufacturing variants (conventional, additive, coatings). The aim is to address decision-makers from industries that have so far hardly considered ceramics—and to provide direct inspiration for new components, cost and service life optimizations, or more sustainable product concepts.