Today I’m going to take you round our workshop again. In this picture you can see Inge Besang, who’s been with TeNo from the very beginning. She’s responsible for the “hard stuff“ for us ;-), because she’s our ceramics specialist.
Ceramics is as much part of TeNo as stainless steel is. In many of our jewelry pieces we combine high-tech ceramic with stainless steel and for our jewelry we use the latest technology materials, like the solid and scratch-resistant dental ceramic shown here.
In several individual steps, the liquid material, as it is in its initial state, is poured into the pre-defined cutouts, such as bars or squares, and is “baked“ in a special annealing oven or, to put it another way, it’s hardened. And it’s exactly this step that you can see Inge Besang carrying out right now.
If you think that the jewelry piece is then finished, you’re wrong. If you make the pictures bigger, you’ll get a better impression of just how essential it is to have the right touch to be able to fill the pre-milled grooves or squares with liquid ceramic. As it’s not always possible to do it without leaving traces, this is when the time-consuming grinding and polishing work starts to remove the ceramic that has flowed over and hardened, so that the ring or jewelry looks like this afterwards:
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