3. Conclusion

These few pages are intended to give an idea of the multiplicity of ceramic compositions and the complexity of their production techniques. It is striking to observe that, alongside traditional materials known for millennia such as terracotta, new formulations continue to be developed in public and private research laboratories, opening the way to materials whose properties are far from having been fully explored.

At the same time as the search for new compositions, the search for new ceramic technologies is also developing. From isostatic pressing, unknown until the 1970s, to additive technologies in their infancy, we can see that manufacturing processes are also evolving, with the aim of producing better, faster and more cheaply, or even with a view to manufacturing parts that were previously impossible to design. What's more, the quest for "zero defects", which...