AT THE CUTTING EDGE Ceratizit is the world market leader in a number of industry sectors for its unique and innovative hard material products, which include wear parts, cutting tools and carbide rods. Industry Europe looks into its operations to discover the reasons behind its success.
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eratizit, today a 50 per cent subsidiary of the globally recognised Plansee Group, was established in 2002 as the result of a merger between the two companies Cerametal and Plansee Tizit. As both the companies had common roots and cultural backgrounds, it was felt that a jointventure for the development of carbide as a basis would be mutually beneficial. The company is based in Mamer, Luxembourg, where its advanced machine park includes a milling centre, lathe centre, horizontal milling unit and vertical milling unit. However, Ceratizit is a global player and also has a large production and 138 Industry Europe
sales network stretching across Europe, South America, North America, Asia and North Africa.
Core products Ceratizit’s impressive range of products is divided into several divisions and sub-divisions, and is designed to meet the needs of today’s state-of-the-art tooling technology. The core product divisions are wear parts, cutting tools, wood machining parts, stone working parts and carbide rods. The wear parts include discs, speciality carbide parts, PCB blanks, knives, nozzles, hobs, cold forming tools and fastening tools.
The cutting tools produced by the company are for applications including drilling, turning, milling, threading and grooving. These are destined for a diverse range of industry sectors, such as automotive, aerospace, rail, tooling, petrochemicals and energy. Products specifically for wood machining include carbide blanks for cutting products such as drill bits or planning blades, and semi-finished products such as blanks for profiling, ground rods and strips. In addition to this, Ceratizit is one of the world’s leading suppliers of stone working parts, supplying the industry with literally millions of drill tips a year for masonry drills
