Sustainable products

Our products and how they are helping to reduce carbon emissions

We estimate that around 60% of our products make a positive contribution, making the world more sustainable and improving the quality of life. We are also proud that through their life, our products typically save tens or hundreds of times the CO₂ emitted during manufacture, allowing our customers to lessen the impact of climate change.

We make ceramic cores that are used to cast turbine blades for aero engines and industrial gas turbines. Our customers come to us for their most demanding applications, for example when they need to hold very fine features on small components. And these demanding applications arise as the next generation engines run hotter to be more efficient. Our cores enable those engine technologies.

We produce some of the leading brush grades for wind turbines, offering longer lifetimes than our competitors. In addition to enabling wind technology, we also drive lower maintenance activity, and costs, for the wind farm operators, further reducing the CO₂ footprint.

In the electrified rail market, we produce a range of collector strips and carbon shoes to connect the train to the power cable or rail. In the metro market in China, we have developed a wide range of high performance material grades to perform in the very varied climatic conditions across China. Our products directly enable electrified rail, and offer superior lifetimes, further reducing CO₂ emissions.