Saint-Gobain Solcera is part of the Saint-Gobain High-Performance Materials Sector.

Saint-Gobain Solcera manufactures and sells a range of ceramic materials, which share common properties such as wear and abrasion resistance, corrosion resistance and structural integrity.

Our worldwide organization and the expertise in each of our production facilities enable us to offer a broad range of ceramic technical solutions, maintaining consistent quality as our entire production is internally administered and controlled.

As an integrated ceramic manufacturing company, Saint-Gobain Solcera's knowledge, expertise and experience provide the best capability to design and manufacture components to meet your technical requirements.

For Europe, your contacts are based in Evreux, France (ceramic parts) or Moissy-Cramayel, France (brazing, ceramic-to-metal and glass-to-metal assemblies).

• 1804: Founding of company Desmarquest, manufacturer of special refractory products for the glass industry
• 1942: Creation in Sèvres of a Research Center specialized in advanced ceramics including sintered oxides
• 1962: Creation of Evreux Plant (Northwest of Paris) for production of Nozzles and Radomes (missile seeker for Defense applications)
• 1971: Desmarquest becomes a subsidiary of the Lafarge Group
• 1984: Desmarquest becomes part of the Pechiney Group
• 1990: Desmarquest is acquired and fully integrated into Saint-Gobain, as other ceramic leading companies would be later such as Norton Company and Carborundum Corp. 
• 1997: Vermétal, Moissy-Cramayel (Southeast of Paris) is acquired by Saint-Gobain and integrated to Desmarquest
• 2006: Desmarquest becomes Saint-Gobain Solcera (Saint-Gobain Solutions Ceramiques)

As part of the Saint-Gobain Ceramics Division, we benefit from two state-of-the-art primary Research & Development facilities located in France CREE in Cavaillon and in U.S., Northborough Center, Massachusetts.

Additional resources include our expert Center of Competences in Evreux and ceramic analysis by M.E.B.

		...provides glass for 50% of all cars in Europe?
...has equipped 80 capitals and more than 1000 major cities throughout the world with water supply products?
		...supplied the glass for the Louvre Pyramid?
...and the one of Skywalk Grand Canyon?
		...provides reinforcement fabrics for hockey sticks and windsurfers?
...manufactures over 300 square miles of roofing shingles annually, enough to build a roof to cover 160,000 football fields?
		...is the leading building materials distributor in Europe?