Established over  in : 1950.
 

MANDATE

• To carry out fundamental and applied research in the field of glass, ceramics, refractories, viterous enamels, composites and allied materials.
• To develop appropriate technologies relevant to the country's defence, economic industrial and social needs.
• To undertake R & D with a view to helping import substitution and updating import technologies.
• To undertake projects sponsored by private/public sector undertakings and to provide technical advisory and infrastructural services like project engineering, testing and evaluation, dissemenition information, etc.

MAIN FACILITIES

• A wide range of sophisticated instruments , e.g ESCA, SIMS, for surface analysis; Q-switching for high power laser, non destructive testing; XRD, XRF, SEM, DTA, TGA, PSA, etc.
• Furnace for experimental melting and firing of ceramic articles.
• Facilities for engineering fabrication and process engineering.
• Computer facilities.
• A-well equipped workshop to back-up R & D work.
• Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence alalyzer.
• Vibrating sample magnetometer.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS                          

• Twenty seven varieties of optical glasses and a few varieties of radiation shielding window glasses for attenuation of high-energy radiation in nuclear reactors.
• Nd-doped laser glass for use in range finders, silicate laser glass for use in plasma application and laser glass discs and rods confirming to defence requirements.
• Grated multimore fibre as per CCIT specification and optical fibre for use in radioactive environment.
• Anti-reflective and anti-glare coatings on radiation shielding glass window, ophthalmic lens and sheet glass; high purity silica glass and zirconia-doped micro spheres for plasma spray applications.
• Synthetic high alumina aggregates (58-86% Al₂O₃), low moisture castables (45-90% Al₂O₃), high density dolomite sinters, high alumina bricks from sillimanite beach sand, insulating bricks from rice husk ash, binders from waste red mud, sintered alumina products, high alumina cement (up to 75% Al₂O₃).
• Low-cost building material like hollow-block, bricks, glazed tiles and bricks, roofing panels, glass reinforced gypsum composites- a substitute for timber, an portland cement mixed with industrial and agricultural waste materials.
• Silver-doped phosphote ( radio-photo lumniscent) glass for use as dosimeter, full-scale crystal glass and ion-selective glass electrodes for measurement pf pH, pNa, pK and pCO_2.
• Super conducting wires and tapes with Jc value of more than 4000 at liquid N₂ temperature.
• Phase-pure fine powders of YBCO superconductors , fine powders of titanates of barium, strontium, and lead, flawless synthetic quartz single crystal and conductive and resistive thick film printing pastes for hybrid circuits.
• Reaction bonded SiC, impervious high strength reaction bonded SiC tube, silicon nitride, and other nitrogen ceramics using boron, titanium and alluminium, , high purity ultrafine active alumina powder, TTAC-TiC composites, yttria-doped PSZ ceramic powders, high strength and high corrosion resistant glass ceramic coating materials.
• Ceramic heads for hemi-hip joint prostathesis.
• Energ efficient shuttle kiln (trolley type furnace) for high temperature applications auout 1600 oC and fuel efficient low thermal mass (LTM) kilns suitable for small-scale pottery industry.
• A model-lowcost building at the institute campus constructed with materials developed at the institute and a model Ceramic Centre for providing training to rural potters at Bankura district of West Bengal.

DIRECTOR
Dr. C. Ganguly

CONTACT ADDRESS
Calcutta 700 032.
Telephone: (091)33-473-3496-3469-3476-7.
Telegram : GLASCERCH, CALCUTTA.
Telex    : 021-7787 GANGA IN.
Fax      : (091)33-4730957.