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About Us

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 three business units — Scintillation, Quartz and Photonics. 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.

Quartz group 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.

Photonics group is a world leader in the development, growth and finishing of very pure mono-crystals.

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