The Ceratizit Group is a Luxembourg manufacturer of

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and hard material products for wear protection and cutting tools. It is 100% owned by Plansee Group and operates 34 production facilities worldwide. The company's headquarters are located in

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History

Predecessors and foundation

In 1948, the cooperation started between CERAMETAL and the company then known as Plansee GmbH. In 1979, CERAMETAL launched production operations in the USA and the first ceramic parts were manufactured in 1988. In 1996, Instrument AG in

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was incorporated in ''Plansee Tizit'' while, at the same time, collaboration got underway with Siel to form Siel Tizit Ltd. in the Indian city of

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. CERATIZIT S.A. was created in 2002 as the result of a merger between the companies CERAMETAL (founded in 1931) and Plansee Tizit (founded in 1985). CERAMETAL was founded in

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, by Nicolas Lanners.

Growth

Following the start-up of the company in 2002, it opened sales offices in

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and the

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. In 2007, new administrative premises were unveiled in

and

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, while sales and marketing offices were opened in

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and

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. In 2007, Ceratizit acquired Newcomer Products, Inc., a private company based in Latrobe/Pennsylvania. In 2010, Ceratizit and CB Carbide combined their Asian activities within the joint venture company CB-CERATIZIT in which both Ceratizit and the members of CB Carbide possess a 50% holding. In 2011, Ceratizit moved its Unites States regioanl headquarters from Latrobe, PA to Warren, Michigan. As of 2022, it had 7,000 employees and more than 25 production sites in

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and

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, and a sales network of over 70 branch offices.

Patents

The company holds more than 1,000

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worldwide and manufactured more than 10 billion sintered parts in 2010.CERATIZIT on LinkedIn
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References

External links

CERATIZIT.com
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