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EuroKera
50/50 joint venture between Saint-Gobain (France, world's largest building materials company) and Corning Incorporated (USA, world's leading specialty glass maker); produces Kerablack® and Keralite® glass-ceramic cooktop panels as the only competitor to SCHOTT CERAN at global scale. Claims to be the #1 choice of cooktop manufacturers for new designs; operates 5 global production facilities. The JV structure means every Eurokera glass-ceramic panel involves both Corning's glass technology and Saint-Gobain's distribution. Corning (same company as Gorilla Glass for smartphones and optical fiber for telecommunications) co-owns the only real competitor to SCHOTT's cooktop glass monopoly.
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Kerablack & Keralite Glass-Ceramic Cooktop Panels
85%Specialty Glass-Ceramic (Fireplace, Thermal)
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Did you know2023
Eurokera is a 50/50 joint venture between Saint-Gobain (France, world's largest building materials group and one of the oldest continuously operating industrial companies, founded by royal decree in 1665 under Louis XIV) and Corning Incorporated (USA, inventor of optical fiber for the internet, Gorilla Glass for smartphones, and borosilicate laboratory glass). Corning — the company whose optical fiber carries 95%+ of the world's internet traffic, and whose Gorilla Glass is on virtually every smartphone screen — co-owns the only real competitor to SCHOTT's cooktop glass monopoly. The glass that the internet runs through and the glass that your induction cooktop runs on are both partly Corning products, from a company founded in 1851 in Corning, New York.
Eurokera ↗Capacity2023
The global induction and electric cooktop glass-ceramic market is a near-complete duopoly: SCHOTT CERAN (~55% share) and EuroKera Kerablack (~40% share) together supply essentially all glass-ceramic cooktop panels worldwide. No other manufacturer operates at commercial scale in this niche. The duopoly is protected by: (1) high capital requirements for the precision glass-ceramic crystallization process; (2) proprietary composition knowledge (lithium aluminosilicate glass with controlled nucleation/crystallization) held by SCHOTT and EuroKera/Corning separately; (3) cooktop manufacturer qualification processes that require extensive product testing before a new glass supplier can be approved. In a supply disruption scenario — fire, flood, or equipment failure at SCHOTT's Mainz plant or EuroKera's Chalon plant — there is no third-party substitute available at commercial scale. A kitchen appliance product segment used in hundreds of millions of homes is entirely dependent on two production sites in Germany and France.
EuroKera S.N.C. ↗Origin2024
EuroKera is a 50/50 joint venture between Saint-Gobain (France) and Corning Inc. (USA), founded 1990. It is the only other at-scale glass-ceramic cooktop panel supplier in the world. Its KeraGlass feedstock is produced at a single plant in Bagneaux-sur-Loing, France, then shipped to four transformation facilities on three continents — creating a glass-origin concentration point in France for half of Eurokera's supply chain.
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