Ceramic Technologies Corp. was founded in 1987. Jeff Epstein started as a Metallurgical Engineer from the Colorado School of Mines. The company quickly grew and by 1995, had sales over $ 1 million per year. Sales doubled again by the year 2000. The company established a niche in oilfield wear part applications. In fact, a US Patent was awarded to the company for a ceramic oilfield application. In 1998, advanced razor blades became a major focus for the company. International distributors contributed to a highly successful line of ceramic coated industrial razor blades used to slit plastic film and foil.

The company was a pioneer in this market and quickly built-up a significant world-wide customer base. In April 2005, the company sold its blade division to Specialty Blades Corporation.

The company has had numerous articles published in leading trade magazines like Converting Magazine and has also been featured in the Houston Business Journal.

Returning to its advanced ceramic focus, Ceramic Technologies began to represent Denka Corporation, Tokyo Japan in May of 2005. Denka Corporation is a manufacturer of advanced ceramic Evaporator Boats and other Boron Nitride and Aluminum nitride parts. This relationship has grown and prospered since then.

Jeff Epstein, company President Sums up the future for Ceramic Technologies like this: “the Advanced ceramics field is a lot of fun. There are so many innovations and new applications that it makes our job interesting. Working in semiconductor applications to oilfield parts to the metallizing industry, we’re constantly learning and innovating. We expect the future to be quite rewarding.”