The development of zirconia beads has a long history. The origin of zirconia beads can be traced back to 1875, when an Australian scholar put forward the idea that zirconia beads can increase the toughness of products by adding ceramics. Therefore, the related research on the effect of ZrO2 on ceramics began to become popular, and some scholars began to study ZrO2 from phase change crystallography, thermodynamics, toughening mechanism, material preparation system and technology, etc.

Zirconia was extracted from precious stones by a foreigner, and then applied to gas lampshades. Later, this material was applied to refractories, coloring and abrasives, etc.

In recent decades, people have developed many new products with excellent performance, so their application fields are constantly expanding. Zirconia ball is an inorganic nonmetallic material with high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and wear resistance, which was used in refractory field in the early 1920s. Until the mid-1970s, internationally, advanced countries in Europe, America and Japan have been competing to research and develop zirconia production technology and zirconia series products, expanding the application field of zirconia to structural materials and functional materials. At the same time, zirconia is also one of the new high-performance materials encouraged by national industrial policies, and is being widely used in various industries.