Precious Metal Refining & Recycling

Materion’s state-of-the-art chemical and electrolytic refineries are two of the largest and most efficient in North America. Both were designed specifically for precious metals and other valuable scrap materials. We are a captive user of our outturn, which we process to its purest forms.

Total Cost Advantage

Materion’s sputtering target and chamber recycling services provide key business advantages:

• Advanced removal techniques maximize silver recovery rates from sputtering targets and chamber shielding

• High efficiency precious metal refining technology produces the highest returns

• Fast settlement times improve cash flow

• Strategically located cleaning sites in the USA, Ireland and Czech Republic

• Price risk management program insulates against volatile precious metals markets

We recover materials from a wide range of sources, including large area coating and rotatable sputtering targets, semiconductor and solar cell silicon wafers, plating baths, industrial manufacturing and other technologies.

Our analytic capabilities are ISO-17025 accredited and we use a variety of characterization techniques including ICAP, GDMA, Mass Spectroscopy and XRF. The accuracy and transparency of our reclaim value assessment process are the basis for our long-term, trusting customer relationships.

Materion combines precious metal refining and recycling with other products and services to form customized, comprehensive solutions that provide our customers with the lowest possible cost of ownership.

Materials List

Materion's precious metals refining service handles materials produced both by customers and by internal manufacturing processes. Metals include: silver (Ag), gold (Au), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru) and others.

Our Commitment

We pride ourselves on our product stewardship. All disposal procedures comply with local, state and federal regulations. Our Quality System is ISO 9001:2008 certified and our Environmental and Safety Management System is 14001:2004 certified.

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