Saint-Gobain Quartz is a business unit of the Saint-Gobain group that supplies a wide range of industries with high quality quartz materials and products, such as Quartzel® quartz fibers used in aeronautics and fused......Saint-Gobain Quartz is a business unit of the Saint-Gobain group that supplies a wide range of industries with high quality quartz materials and products, such as Quartzel® quartz fibers used in aeronautics and fused quartz crucibles used in the Solar industry. In addition, Saint-Gobain Quartz also manufactures Micaver®, a unique glass/mica composite material used for the manufacturing of electrical insulators for the railway and other electrical industries. Saint-Gobain Quartz has a long history of quartz manufacturing, dating back to 1922, and has pioneered new quartz manufacturing processes since then. Among the past and present licencees of Saint-Gobain Quartz technology are GE Quartz (tube manufacturing), QSil (cylindrical ingot manufacturing), Sumitomo and Mitsubishi Materials (crucible manufacturing), Corning (siloxane-based synthetic silica) and many more. Today, Saint-Gobain Quartz materials are manufactured in three plants (France, Kentucky-USA and China). Our sales network and production facilities cover the world and are connected with each other in order to provide our customers the best local service with global support. Our parent company is the Saint-Gobain group, a fortune 500 company founded in 1665, with nearly 195,000 employees worldwide and sales of 42 billion Euros in 2011. The Saint-Gobain groups expertise in materials is at the service of our customers and Saint-Gobain Quartz is backed by our parent companys research centers in the USA (Northboro, Massachusetts), France (Aubervilliers and Cavaillon, France) and China (Shanghai). Saint-Gobain Quartzs vision is to be a forward-looking pioneer in quartz manufacturing technology, a leading provider of quality quartz materials to a wide range of industries, a human-size supplier with excellent local service, bringing world-class technical expertise to all our customers.