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Saint-Gobain is a global leader in the manufacture and development of engineered materials such as glass, insulation, reinforcements, containers, building materials, ceramics and plastics. The Crystals Division reinforces Saint-Gobain's commitment to demanding markets and applications.

Being a part of Saint-Gobain also brings Saint-Gobain Crystals the long-term strategic and investment benefits of such a dynamic group. There is coherence centered on materials, applied to increasingly diversified needs. Saint-Gobain encourages research and development and the expansion of relevant technologies and their applications.

Saint-Gobain Crystals is comprised of four business units — Scintillation Products, Quartz Materials, Photonic Materials, and Process Materials. Each of these units is devoted to optimizing the unique properties of materials — purity, optical, thermal, scintillation, crystallographic — through advanced industrial processing. These processing methods, be it single crystal processing, high-purity processing, shape processing, surface finishing or coating, all serve to solve our customers’ unique problems.

Scintillation group is a world leader in the design and manufacture of materials and assemblies used in radiation detection and measurement.

Applications include: Homeland Security & Safeguards, Medical Imaging, Oil & Gas Exploration, Aerospace and Astrophysics.

Saint-Gobain Quartz supplies high quality fused quartz and fused silica materials and products, as well as some non-quartz products like Piezoceramics and Micaver Insulators.

Applications range from Semiconductor and Optical Fiber, to Metal Foundries and Chemical Processing, in addition to Optical, Medical, Military, Automotive and Aerospace applications.

Photonic Materials group is a world leader in the development, growth & finishing of very pure mono-crystals.

Materials and applications include X-Ray monochromators, Electro- & Magneto-Optics, Frequency Multipliers, Medical & Industrial Lasers, Aerospace & Defense, LED Substrates & Semiconductor Processing.

Process Materials manufactures high purity silicon carbide components for the processing of electronic and opto-electronic devices.

Applications include horizontal & vertical batch thermal processing, single wafer processing and plasma etch components for semiconductor, in addition to solar cell processing components.