Strategy & Outlook
Our challenge consists in achieving excellence in both product quality and services for our customer’s benefit. Otherwise, COGEBI focuses on direct contact with the industrial end users, as this approach shortens reaction times, makes it easier for the partners to share information and, most importantly, is essential in moving the process forward with different people involved.
Wherever you are in the world, an engineer from one of the COGEBI locations - who is up to date on the special aspects of mica technology - will help you find just the right mica product for your application. And if we do not currently have the right solution, our R&D department will develop it for you, and with you.
The very latest production techniques mean that COGEBI can supply high-tech products with the kind of exceptional properties that our customers demand for their own advanced technologies.
This policy of ongoing contact with the outside world helps cogebi keep a close track on developments in the industrial markets, and helps us stay one step ahead of our customer’s needs.
New products
The exceptional dielectric strength of mica has always been exploited by COGEBI to provide high-performance insulation to the electrical industry.
COGEBI has improved especialy its high voltage applications in electromechanics (generators, motors) during last years.
Research into mechanical properties has resulted in the development of electrical insulation plates used in domestic appliances, residential and industrial heating and electric traction motors.
Thicker plates are used for thermal insulation and as a replacement for asbestos.
Our research into flexible micanite has given us a presence in the markets for cold-formable electrical insulation, industrial and automobile seals, and insulation in induction smelting furnaces.
The thermal properties of mica are put to use by cable manufacturers, for example, in designing fire-retardant electrical cables.
The newest application of micas thermal resistance is COGEBI’s fire protection layer in civil aircraft cabins.
Similar technology can also be used in other areas, such as partitions and fire doors.
R&D is dedicated to constantly improve COGEBI’s products and, in particular, the properties of the range of electrical insulation tapes.
Examining all the fundamental properties of mica, COGEBI’s research focuses on developing those properties which will maintain the company’s presence into the future, creating mica products adapted to new technologies.
