Ivoclar.

Ivoclar's history page says the company was founded in Zurich in 1923, has been domiciled in Liechtenstein since the 1930s, and opened its first international subsidiary in Germany in 1954. The Liechtenstein historical lexicon says the firm began as Zahnfabrik Ramsperger and Co. AG in Zurich in 1923, moved to Schaan in 1933 as Zahnfabrik Ramco AG, was renamed Ivoclar AG in 1951, and set up Vivadent in 1956. Ivoclar and Vivadent shared management from 1979 and merged as Ivoclar Vivadent AG in 2001. The lexicon says the headquarters are in Schaan and that the company is privately owned.

The history page dates IPS Empress, which it calls the first pressed ceramic, to 1991, Tetric to 1992, and IPS e.max lithium disilicate to 2005. Programat P1 is dated 1976. Silicap capsules are dated 1965. A Liechtenstein news note on the centenary says Adolf Schneider acquired the company in 1948, that the Ivoclar name followed about three years later, and that the group employed 3,500 people, had 47 subsidiaries and production sites, and supplied 130 countries, with 2021 sales of 842 million Swiss francs. Those employment and sales figures are from that 2023 centenary article.

The product list on the Liechtenstein site includes IPS e.max zirconia and CAD materials, Ivotion denture discs, Programat furnaces, and PrograMill milling units, alongside adhesives, composites, and prevention products. A mill, a furnace, and a composite syringe are different tools. e.max Press and e.max CAD are different forms of the ceramic system. The history page says CAD/CAM use of the system expanded in the field after 2005.

The lexicon says research and training are concentrated in Schaan, with a course center opened in 2000, and that 2008 employment was 2,258 people group-wide with products in more than 120 countries. The later centenary article's 3,500 people and 130 countries are a newer snapshot. Use the year when you quote a headcount. The history page's phrase world's first is the company's wording for Empress and for earlier silicate and capsule products. The lexicon says Williams Gold in Buffalo was acquired in 1986 for precious-metal products, and that production sites in Liechtenstein included Triesenberg and Schellenberg from 1967 as well as the Schaan works. Alloy products from that acquisition are not IPS e.max. A Philippines production site dated 1993 and a China subsidiary dated 1998 on the history page explain why a shipment might not leave Schaan. Ask the subsidiary which warehouse holds the shade.

Ivoclar suits a practice or lab that wants the Schaan company's ceramics, composites, or furnaces. Universal composites are compared on the universal composite guide.

Furnaces and mills are on the porcelain furnace guide and the milling machine guide.

IPS Empress in 1991 and e.max in 2005 are ceramic systems. Tetric is a direct composite. Ivotion is a denture disc on the product list. They do not share a firing schedule.

Adhesives, sealants, and curing lights in the wider catalog belong with the adhesive guide only when you are buying an Ivoclar adhesive. The history page does not make every Ivoclar product an adhesive.

Boxes may still say Ivoclar Vivadent after the 2001 merger. The history page now uses Ivoclar. Match the reference number, not the historic logo.

The lexicon's 1933 move to Schaan is the domicile. Subsidiaries in Germany, the US, and Asia ship locally. Ask which warehouse has the shade you need.