SCM Metal Products, a leading manufacturer of non-ferrous metal powder based in USA and China

 

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SCM Metal Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of non-ferrous metal powder and copper brazing paste headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, with plants in Research Triangle Park, NC, and in Suzhou, China. The company’s products are marketed worldwide through direct sales and distributors located in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Company history

000939The foundation of SCM Metal Products, Inc. as a metal powder producer can be traced back to the Glidden Metals Company which in the early 1930’s began to produce copper powder for the then emerging industrial use of self-lubricating bronze bearings. In 1967 The Glidden Metals Company merged with Smith-Corona Marchant, (SCM) a typewriter manufacturer, and the company over the years changed its name from Glidden Metals to become known as SCM Metal Products, Inc. In 2005 SCM Metal Products expanded its production base in the growing Asian market by establishing SCM Metal Products (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, a copper and copper alloy powder facility in Suzhou, China.

000934Product Offerings

SCM offers a broad variety of non-ferrous powder and Cubond® copper-based brazing paste for industrial or commercial applications.

These product offerings include:

  • Copper powder: Oxide reduced – Water Atomized – Electrolytic
  • Bronze pre-mixed or bronze pre-alloyed powder for bearing or structural P/M parts
  • Infiltration powder and paste for ferrous P/M parts
  • High Green Strength (HGS) powder

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  • Cubond® brazing paste
  • Tin powder
  • Lead powder
  • Copper oxide powder – Cu2O
  • Catalyst powder

SCM’s business strategy is to partner with companies to accelerate new product development. At its headquarters, SCM’s world class research and development laboratories provides the means to assist our customers in creating new products and opportunities with our powders and

pastes.

000935SCM pioneered press-ready, dimensionally-controlled, pre-mixed bronze powders for sintered bearings, High Green Strength (HGS) powders for copper-based friction materials, copper infiltration powders, Cubond® copper brazing pastes, copper oxide and copper flake catalyst.

SCM will continually leverage its powder metal network of products, technology and customers to create improved value and products to the worldwide market place. SCM has the resources and talent in place to turn ideas into high value quality products.

 

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You can learn more about our company at:

www.scmmetals.com and

www.scmmetals.com.cn

 

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