Atraverda Ltd - The Abertillery-based company has developed a lighter ceramicmaterial to replace the traditional heavier lead components in lead acid batteries making them lighter and greener.
Multiple rods are grouped within another metal jacket which is then drawn and baked to convert the raw material to the ceramic form and the rod into a wire.
Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.