Precious Metals Group
Handy & Harman’s Precious Metals Group is an industry leader in the supply of precious metals and specialty alloys to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) throughout the world. The Group focuses on value-added products, and specializes in the fabrication of these materials to provide engineered solutions for their customers in the electrical/electronic, appliance, automotive, aerospace and construction industries.
Handy & Harman ranks prominently among the world’s leading producers and marketers of brazing and soldering materials and technology. Over 75 years ago, Handy & Harman developed and patented many of the standard brazing products that are still in use today. These alloys are used to join most common metals as well as some specialty metals and ceramic components with strong, hermetic joints. Lucas-Milhaupt, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Handy & Harman, offers a wide variety of these metal-joining products including silver, gold, palladium, copper, nickel and aluminum based materials. The company creates value by fabricating these brazing and soldering materials into a variety of engineered forms. These specialty materials enable their customers to improve their metal joining operations by reducing overall metal-joining costs and improving productivity and quality.
Handy & Harman of Canada, Ltd, our Canadian operation, provides manufacturing, sales, and technical support for the Canadian market as well as materials for the other Group locations. Products and services include: precious metal alloys, high purity VTG alloys for critical joining applications, and refining operations to reclaim precious metals from scrap.
Our European operation, Protechno s.a.. of Riberac, France is a full service provider of brazing and soldering materials including standard alloys and specialty products like GasFlux®, flux cored materials and brazing & soldering pastes. Protechno is a solutions provider, supplying engineered products and technical support throughout Europe.
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