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Clad metal toplays represent one of the most sophisticated uses of clad metals. Through the use of a toplay, designers can incorporate materials such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium with less expensive materials such as copper, brass and stainless steel.

With electron beam continuous strip welding expertise, we offer improved productivity over other joining methods. This process allows our customers to stamp continuous coils of welded strip, rather than assemble individual components. This reduces both your material and labor costs by eliminating the scrap typically produced by a conventional milling or skiving process.

Overlay cladding is a process by which dissimilar layers of metals are bonded together. This is a metallurgical process which uses no adhesives or filler materials. It is accomplished through the use of extreme pressure and, in some cases, heat. The process can produce what are commonly called single clad (two layers), double clad (three layers), and in some specific instances as many as seven layers. All Clad Metal Specialties overlays are custom made to your exact specifications. Our processes have the capability of bonding such dissimilar metals as nickel to gold, tin to copper, silver to aluminum. The combinations available, limited only by the designers imagination, can be manufactured in widths from .100 to 5, and thicknesses from .001 to .125.

The main objective of a contact material system is to combine the advantages of a number of materials into one system that provides improved characteristics over a single metal. Clad contact materials can combine the conductivity of copper, the tensile strength of steel and the contact resistance of silver into one cost effective stamping. By putting the exact amount of precious contact material on a heat sinking base such as copper and then combining this with the support of steel, the designer can increase the potential of each metal. These techniques can be used to produce contact materials in several configurations including inlays for progressive die stamping of contact arms and switch parts and full overlays for producing contact buttons and heavy duty circuit breaker parts.

These valuable services allow you to convert unusable inventory into usable inventory.
In a sample situation, a customer sends us 16 wide coils of metal and requests that we slit it to 3 wide. We would make five cuts at 3 wide and generate 1 of scrap. To carry it one step further, suppose the coil you have is .050 thick and your requirement is for .030 thick at 3 wide; we would roll the material to the new thickness of .030 and then re-slit the coils to 3. The reason for the extra slitting step is that when rolling from .050 to .030 the material will spread and in most cases customers require an exact width at + .005 for their stamping operation. Now suppose the incoming material at .050 is in the annealed condition (soft) and the customer requires it back in the same condition. Since rolling from .050-.030 will harden the material, it must be reannealed prior to final slitting. This process can be used on any material that is available in coil form.

Inlays represent one of the most sophisticated uses of clad metals. Through the use of an inlay, designers can incorporate materials such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium with less expensive materials such as copper, brass and stainless steel. This combination puts the characteristics of a precious metal exactly where you need it, yet allows dissimilar characteristics such as heat sinking, spring and welding to be designed into a product.

These valuable services allow you to convert unusable inventory into usable inventory.
In a sample situation, a customer sends us 16 wide coils of metal and requests that we slit it to 3 wide. We would make five cuts at 3 wide and generate 1 of scrap. To carry it one step further, suppose the coil you have is .050 thick and your requirement is for .030 thick at 3 wide; we would roll the material to the new thickness of .030 and then re-slit the coils to 3. The reason for the extra slitting step is that when rolling from .050 to .030 the material will spread and in most cases customers require an exact width at + .005 for their stamping operation. Now suppose the incoming material at .050 is in the annealed condition (soft) and the customer requires it back in the same condition. Since rolling from .050-.030 will harden the material, it must be reannealed prior to final slitting. This process can be used on any material that is available in coil form.

These valuable services allow you to convert unusable inventory into usable inventory.
In a sample situation, a customer sends us 16 wide coils of metal and requests that we slit it to 3 wide. We would make five cuts at 3 wide and generate 1 of scrap. To carry it one step further, suppose the coil you have is .050 thick and your requirement is for .030 thick at 3 wide; we would roll the material to the new thickness of .030 and then re-slit the coils to 3. The reason for the extra slitting step is that when rolling from .050 to .030 the material will spread and in most cases customers require an exact width at + .005 for their stamping operation. Now suppose the incoming material at .050 is in the annealed condition (soft) and the customer requires it back in the same condition. Since rolling from .050-.030 will harden the material, it must be reannealed prior to final slitting. This process can be used on any material that is available in coil form.