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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 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 challenges. Crystals is composed of two distinct business units – Scintillation and Photonics

Scintillation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of materials and assemblies used in radiation detection and measurement. We offer product and technology solutions that cover a broad range of materials and configurations from large plates of NaI(Tl) crystal to sub-millimeter pixels.

Scintillation offers a market leading variety of scintillation crystals and detectors. Our products are used in a broad spectrum of applications including Homeland Security & Safeguards, Medical Imaging, Oil & Gas Exploration, Industrial, Aerospace and Astrophysics.

Photonics strives to provide innovative solutions utilizing crystalline photonics and sapphire materials for demanding applications. Our expertise, focus and world class capabilities allow us to lead the industry in the development, growth and finishing of high purity single crystals for: aerospace & defense systems, semiconductor equipment, optics, LED lighting, medical instrumentation, industrial applications, research and X-ray spectrometry.

Our portfolio of high performance, high reliability products ranges from large sapphire sheets, tubes, rods and other sapphire complex shapes to sapphire and GaN substrates and X-ray monochromator crystals to Garnet substrates.