Body armor is something Golden-based CoorsTek knows well. It has produced ceramic plates used to protect soldiers from bullets and shrapnel since the 1960s.

The global ceramic armor market size is expected to grow from USD 2.3 billion in 2022 to USD 3.5 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 8.6% during the forecast period.

Ensuring the integrity of ceramic body armor plates is the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., which developed the Armor Inspection System.

You don’t armor up because you’re spoiling for a fight—you do it because deep down, you know no one’s coming, and it’s your job to hold the line.

Ceradyne Inc., a maker of lightweight ceramic body armor, received a five-year U.S. Army contract worth as much as $611.7 million for insert panels to protect soldiers’ sides. Its shares surged ...

The success of body armor in Iraq has triggered big sales for armor companies back home. The Pentagon has spent nearly $5 billion on body armor over the past five years as armed conflicts in Iraq ...

The U.S. Army is recalling more than 16,000 sets of body armor even though the secretary of the Army disagrees with a Department of Defense report that some of the ceramic plates failed testing ...

The Pentagon’s inspector general has found that some body armor made for the Army from 2005 to 2007 failed initial ballistics tests designed to prove that the armor can block bullets.

The U.S. Army, under pressure to issue additional protective gear to its soldiers in Iraq, has signed a $70-million emergency contract with a Costa Mesa company for ceramic body armor. The ...

U.S. Special Operations Command is recalling thousands of body armor plates after discovering a manufacturer’s defect that could put operators at risk. At the same time defense industry experts ...