The production of open-celled porous inorganic sintered products comprises the stepsa) introducing a flowable mixture comprising an aqueous polymer dispersion, sinterable inorganic powder and dispersant into a precipitation bath in which the polymer precipitates or coagulates to form a non-flowable product comprising polymer, inorganic powder and dispersant,b) removing the product from the precipitation bath and drying the product,c) heating the product to remove polymer and dispersant and sintering the product.The porous open-celled sintered products comprising sintered inorganic powder have a pore volume of from 50 to 95%, a surface area of from 0.1 to 50 m.sup.2 /g and an at least bimodal pore size distribution having maxima in the ranges from 0.02 to 5 .mu.m and from 20 to 500 .mu.m.