A Windsor-headquartered materials engineering company, founded in 1856 as the Morgan Crucible Company, that makes specialist products from carbon, ceramics and composites.
Morgan Advanced Materials makes specialist products from carbon, advanced ceramics and composites, which are materials chosen because they stand up to extreme heat, wear, corrosion or electrical demands. Since 2024 it has reported three segments. Thermal Products covers insulation and heat-resistant products for furnaces and similar equipment. Performance Carbon covers electrical carbon items such as brushes for motors, along with seals and bearings. Technical Ceramics makes precision ceramic parts for demanding uses. Its customers range from steelmakers to the medical, energy and electronics industries.
The company began in 1856, when the six Morgan brothers, who were importers and exporters in the City of London, formed the Patent Plumbago Crucible Company and opened a works in Battersea. By mixing graphite into clay they made crucibles, the pots used to melt metal, that lasted longer, and by the 1870s it was said to be the world's largest crucible maker. It was renamed the Morgan Crucible Company in 1881, was owned by its directors and senior staff until it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1946, and took the name Morgan Advanced Materials in 2013. Electric brushes, refractory furnace linings and technical ceramics were added over the decades.
The company's website says it has stayed focused on engineering high-performance materials and specialised products that offer 'reliable solutions to technical challenges' and help customers 'achieve more with less'. We did not find a formal values statement on the pages we could read. Morgan also runs four global Centres of Excellence, opened between 2008 and 2018, which bring together expertise in insulating fibre, structural ceramics, metals and joining, and carbon science.
Morgan's headquarters has been at York House in Windsor, Berkshire, since 2020. UK sites named in sources include Bromborough on the Wirral, home of the insulating fibre Centre of Excellence since 2008, Stourport-on-Severn, home of the structural ceramics centre since 2015, and Neston, where a refractory factory opened in 1947. A resistor factory opened in County Durham in 1948, and brush manufacturing moved from Battersea to Morriston in South Wales in the 1970s. Wikipedia reports about 8,100 employees worldwide in 2026, with roughly 9.5 per cent of staff in the UK in 2021.
A materials company employs materials scientists and chemists, process and manufacturing engineers, laboratory and quality technicians, product designers, and commercial, finance and supply chain teams. If you enjoy chemistry, physics, maths or design and technology, materials engineering is a useful route into a huge range of industries, because the same ceramic or carbon part might end up in a steel plant, a hospital scanner or a wind turbine. The company's own site lists what is open at each location. Some site details above come from historical sources, so check the current UK footprint on the company website.
Website: www.morganadvancedmaterials.com
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