Originally founded in 1956 as the National Beryllia Corporation, the company was a pioneer in the research and development of high purity oxide ceramics. In the early 1960s, the company developed ceramic processing technology to press, extrude, and fire BeO to manufacture both standard and custom shapes that could meet the requirements of a wide variety of applications. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, an in-house precision ceramic machining capability was established so those tolerances required by our customers would be met with repeatable consistency for all operations, including drilling, metallizing, lapping, polishing and dicing.