Higher Vocational Training

Development and Manufacturing of Ceramic Products

What do you study in Development and Manufacturing of Ceramic Products?

The Higher Technician in Development and Manufacture of Ceramic Products qualification prepares you to develop ceramic formulations and to organise and manage the manufacture of bodies, shaped pieces, frits, glazes and pigments, to the required quality and with safety and environmental standards.

  • Raw materials and ceramic formulations
  • Laboratory, pilot plant and industrial trials
  • Manufacture of bodies, tiles and shaped products
  • Frits, glazes, pigments and ceramic decoration
  • Production scheduling, quality and environment

Once qualified you can work as a product R&D technician, laboratory or quality management technician, production planning and control technician, environmental technician or technical sales adviser, in the tile, sanitaryware, tableware, refractory, frit and glaze industries.