The consumer-goods industry has not been left out and is consuming more and more ceramic parts in the most varied domains: health (valve joints), jewellery, household articles. This is a mass market of several million units per year that sometimes goes unnoticed by the final customer but nonetheless represents a very real market.

Leading consumer applications include zirconia knife and scissor blades and, more recently, soleplates for irons made of silicium nitride, and micropore coffee filters.

Most recently the luxury industry has taken an interest in ceramics, from enamelling to the use of solid ceramic parts to make watch cases or top-of-the-line writing instruments.