In the present work, ceramic materials based on aluminum oxide and chromium borides in the Cr 2 O 3 -Al-B system with different ratios of the starting components, from stoichiometric to excess free boron, are obtained by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) method. Excess boron was introduced into the system in order to compensate for its loss due to burnout during SHS. It was shown that, as a result of SHS, a ceramic composite material with an Al 2 O 3 matrix filled with various chromium borides: CrB, CrB 2 , and Cr 3 B 4 is formed in the studied system. It was also shown that in the 2Cr 2 O 3 -2Al-7B system, the formation of metastable phase of aluminum borate AlBO 3 is possible as a result of SHS. Since AlBO 3 is a promising material for use in refractories, this system was chosen as the starting material for producing plates by the free SHS compression method. The free SHS compression method combines the synthesis of material in SHS mode with subsequent shear high-temperature deformation. The specified method allowed obtaining ceramic plates with dimensions of 50 × 40 × 7 mm. According to the results of XRD and SEM, the obtained plates consisted of two phases: Al 2 O 3 , CrB 2 , as well as free boron. Due to changes in the conditions of heat removal under free SHS compression and a decrease in the residence time of the synthesized material at elevated temperatures, the formation of chromium monoboride and aluminum borate does not occur. Since the formation of aluminum borates begins in the temperature range 900 -950°С, an additional heat treatment of the obtained samples was carried out at a temperature of 950°С for 20 hours. It was found that as a result of heat treatment due to the interaction of free boron and aluminum oxide, the formation of aluminum borate Al 4 B 2 O 9 occurs, as well as the formation of chromium monoboride takes place as a result of thermal decomposition of CrB 2 . By this method, ceramic plates with dimensions of 50 × 40 × 7 mm were obtained. The maximum density of the obtained plates was 3.98 g/cm 3 , while the porosity was about 15%.