ELMORE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites, a Materion Corporation (NYSE:
MTRN) business, announced today the completion of a significant
milestone of its capabilities and operations for proprietary investment
cast AlBeCast® aluminum beryllium products. Materion is the world's only
mine-to-mill integrated beryllium producer, providing an assured,
long-term source of beryllium.
Over the last three years the Materion flagship manufacturing facility
in Elmore, Ohio has developed and completed a state-of-the-art
investment casting capability to benefit technically demanding customers
in the aerospace, defense and precision industrial equipment industries.
Commenting on this progress, Mike Anderson, President, Materion Brush
Beryllium & Composites, said, "Customers have long turned to Materion
for material solutions for some of their toughest end-use challenges.
This expansion extends our product offering for aluminum beryllium
materials by offering rapid prototyping and solidification modeling to
provide investment cast parts to customers with short lead times and
competitive pricing."
Larry Ryczek, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Materion Brush
Beryllium & Composites, added, "Materion's world class casting team,
complemented by our SPADE group (Special Product and Application
Development Engineering), enables us to now provide finished parts into
a range of customers. The AlBeCast product line complements the powder
metallurgy-derived AlBeMet® to offer customers a greater choice of
options for their material needs."
Aluminum beryllium castings provide favorable cost/benefit advantages
for customers requiring a combination of ultra-light weight, stiffness,
mechanical stability and thermal properties.
Beyond its AlBeCast product line for precision cast component
applications, Materion offers customers a wide range of high-performance
powder metallurgy-based products of beryllium, beryllium-containing
alloys and non-beryllium metal matrix composites.
The casting investment follows a major expansion of the Elmore
facility's primary beryllium production capacity undertaken over the
past several years as part of an innovative private-public partnership
between Materion and the U.S. Department of Defense. This capability
will support the beryllium product lines for the defense and critical
civilian needs.
Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The
Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly
engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Products
include precious and non-precious specialty metals, inorganic chemicals
and powders, specialty coatings, specialty engineered beryllium alloys,
beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated metal
systems.
Materion Corporation
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Source: Materion Corporation
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