Barat Ceramics - Ceramic Material for Vehicle Armour and Protection

Established in 1909, leading German company Barat Ceramics has a long and established history of the manufacture of technical ceramic components for wide range of applications. Today, Barat Ceramics remains one of the leading European suppliers of aluminium oxide products for ballistic protection systems and armour plating. The company designs bespoke ceramic armour plating for land, air and marine military vehicles, as well as armoured containers.

Lightweight ceramic armour

In today's era of assymetric warfare, military operations place at least as much emphasis on manoueverability and speed as they do on heavy armouring and protection. In theatres of operation that are often hot and arid it is also important that military personnel are as protected as possible without their armour becoming overly hot and burdensome. Because ceramic armour is much more light-weight than its steel-based counterpart, it is quickly becoming the material of choice for vehicle and personnel protection.

Barat Ceramics supplies a wide range of high-tech ceramic protection tiles which provide excellent levels of ballistic protection whilst weighing significantly less than steel armour. All Barat protective products are put through rigorous testing and conform to stringent industry standards.

High-tech armour plating

Barat Ceramics focuses on intensive and in-depth R&D processes to ensure that its ceramic products remain at the technological forefront of the military armour market. Because armour plating is applied to a myriad of different vehicles and equipment, Barat Ceramics also ensure that its products can be fully bespoke - customised to meet each individual client's needs.

All of our research and development is carried out in-house using our high-tech range of tools and facilities. Our capabilities include:

• In-house material development and production
• Engineering
• Tool making
• Design development to customer and application requirements
• Manufacturing of panels to given customer specifications

Bespoke armour plating

Our armouring process is a fully turnkey process, meaning that We follow the project from the initial conception to the realisation of the final product.

Our manufacturing process and production equipment provides:

• Sensitive selection of raw materials
• Quality controlled and reproducible treatment and raw material preparation
• CNC controlled machines for shaping
• Process controlled sinter technology
• Automatic cleaning and inspection devices

Industry-certified ceramic manufacturing processes

Our high-performance ceramic materials for manufacturing processes conform to all major international safety engineering standards, including:

• DIN EN ISO 9001:2000
• DIN EN ISO 14001:2005 and EU-Öko-Audit
• DIN EN ISO 18001:1999