Performance Ceramics (ex-Coherent; Advent portfolio)

Articles mentioning Performance Ceramics (ex-Coherent; Advent portfolio)

• Ballistic Ceramics — Alumina vs Silicon Carbide vs Boron Carbide

  Hard armor plates use ceramic strike faces to fracture bullets before they reach the fiber catch layer. Three ceramic families dominate — alumina, silicon carbide, and boron carbide. This guide covers weight, cost, and performance tradeoffs and the suppliers behind each.

• Berry Amendment + Body Armor — What DoD Actually Requires

  The Berry Amendment requires DoD to buy clothing, fabric, and body armor from domestic sources. This guide covers what "domestic" means in practice for body armor fiber, prepreg, ceramic, and finished armor — and where the pitfalls are.

• Body Armor Supply Chain — The Complete ArmorOS Guide

  The body-armor industry rests on a thin, globally consolidated supply chain — a handful of fiber producers (DuPont Kevlar, Avient Dyneema, Honeywell Spectra), ceramic suppliers (Morgan, CoorsTek), and prepreg makers. This guide maps the upstream supply chain that determines what every OEM can actually build.

• How Ceramic Strike Faces Are Made — Pressing, Sintering, Tile Arrays

  Ceramic strike-face manufacturing — pressing, sintering, tile array vs monolithic — is more expensive and finicky than the chemistry of the ceramic itself suggests. This guide covers the two dominant production paths, why boron carbide is still expensive, and what the ceramic suppliers (3M, Morgan, CoorsTek) actually do differently.