Seventy-five years of refractory ceramics, engineered to order.
SELEE® Advanced Ceramics® has been manufacturing high-quality custom refractory products for more than 75 years. We produce cost-effective ceramic refractory shapes for a wide variety of heat-treating and investment-casting applications — and we've built our reputation by being innovative and customer-oriented in equal measure.
From the foundry floor to the firing kiln.
We started supplying refractory shapes to a handful of American foundries and have since grown into a leading supplier of crucibles, ladles, spouts, and ram materials to the investment-casting industry — a business we've been in for more than 40 years.
Along the way our product line expanded into thermal processing — high-temperature firing of ceramics, calcining of powders, sintering of powder-metal components — and into the art-glass world with our round-bottom and straight-wall glass crucibles. The constant across all of it: high-temperature firing of our parts dramatically reduces inclusions, lengthens campaigns, and improves the quality of whatever our customers are making.
What hasn't changed in 75+ years: if we don't have a part that meets your needs, we design one. Talk to sales and we'll engineer a new part to fit your application.
Three-quarters of a century in refractory.
Founded
SELEE® Advanced Ceramics® established to supply custom refractory shapes to American foundries and processors.
Investment casting
Becomes a leading supplier of crucibles, ladles, spouts, and ram materials to investment-casting foundries.
Thermal processing
Expanded product line to firing, calcining, and powder-metal sintering applications.
Art glass & beyond
Glass crucibles in round-bottom and straight-wall designs serve the studio and production glass industries.
Years and counting
Three-quarters of a century of innovative, customer-oriented refractory engineering.
Innovative
We invest in formulations and process improvements so our customers can run hotter, cleaner, and longer.
Customer-oriented
If a stock part doesn't fit, our team designs a new one — that's how most of our catalog started.
Built to last
High-temperature firing, high-purity raw materials, and consistent performance, lot after lot.