Company Name / address details

maxon motor GmbH
Untere Ziel 1
79350 Sexau
Germany

Contact

Phone

+49/7641 - 91 14 -0

Fax

+49/7641 - 91 14 -655

E-Mail

ceramic.de@maxongroup.com

Homepage

ceramic.maxongroup.com

Number of Employees

Total: 480 / 45 in CIM/MIM

Company profile

maxon is inter alia a supplier for high precision and high quality ceramics with more than 25 years of development and production expertise. A wide variety of ceramic parts, made of zirconia and aluminum oxide, are produced by injection molding, sintering and machining. With this vast vertical range of manufacture, maxon produces high-tech ceramics with tight tolerances of up to 1 µm. Ceramics from maxon are used in the wristwatch industry, medical industry, consumer industry, drive solutions and in many other applications. Since 1961 maxon is the worldwide leading supplier of high precision drives with 3000 employees and subsidiaries in more than 40 countries.

Production programm

Materials*

3 mol-% yttria-stabilised zirconia (3YSZ)
alumina
coloured zirconia
glass-ceramic materials platform
silicon carbide
zirconia

User industries**

automotive, aviation, space travel
electrical and thermal insulation
electrical engineering
electronics and sensors
fluid technology
food and beverage applications
heat treatment
household and luxury goods
industrial automation
laboratory technology
laser technology
marine and railway
measuring and testing industry
mechanical and chemical process engineering
medical technology
metrology
optics
plastic industry
R&D (universities, institutes, corporate)
technical ceramics
vacuum technology
watch industries

Production plants (key equipment)***

3D measuring
3D-printing
4th/5th axis machining
after firing machining
assembling
bonding
brazing of metal-ceramic assemblies
CIM
debinding
diamond grinding
digital microscoping
extrusion
finishing
grinding
grinding cut-to-size
hard machining
injection molding
micromachining
milling
MIM
polishing
sintering
turning
unfired machining
white and green body processing

Product development Partnerships

customers

yes

institutes

yes

user industries

yes

Market Leadership

Familiar with driving systems, we are specialists for precisely grinded spindles and axles as well as parts for mechanical wristwatch movement made of ZrO2

Special Know How

ceramic injection molding of small parts ceramic lead screws for small drive systems

Certificates

ISO 9001 : 2015; ISO 14001 : 2015