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AM 388™ (UNS C72650) is a copper based Spinodal alloy with high conductivity and high strength. The material delivers outstanding performance for contacts in electronic connectors, sockets and switches. AM 388™ is accepted as a safe replacement material for Beryllium Copper alloy.

Our specialized Pfinodal® C72900 material is a Spinodal copper based alloy with nickel and tin additions. It competes with Beryllium Copper alloy C17200 for electrical connectors and bearing materials where high strength and excellent formability without dimensional instability are required.

Our Spinodal strip materials in Copper-Nickel-Tin alloys offer high ductility for forming into shaped charge liner material for the perforation of oil and gas well liners. Shaped Charge Liner Material Advantages The Spinodal material is produced through our wrought powder compaction process which imparts properties allowing the material to virtually ‘disappear’ upon activating the charge. The material is well suited to “big hole” applications for perforating charges and leaves little residue (commonly referred to as ‘carrots’ or ‘slugs’). Pfinodal® (C72900) and AM-388™ (UNS C72650) We produce two spinodal alloys for these shaped charge applications - Pfinodal® (C72900) copper alloy and AM-388™ (UNS C72650). They benefit from age hardening techniques that further increase their strength and hardness required for deep hole penetration applications. These spinodal materials deliver superior mechanical and physical properties in comparison

Our Pure Nickel Strip has been the premier material for battery connections for decades. The high purity of our custom-made material offers the highest conductivity of commercially manufactured nickel products due to the low impurity level. Battery Contacts for Implantable Medical Devices Patients worldwide rely on batteries to improve and maintain quality of life. Our pure nickel strip materials are used to power implantable devices such as neurostimulators, pacemakers, and cardiac defibrillators. Aerospace Battery Connectors Nickel strip engineered for high-tech aircraft battery systems that deliver long life and high reliability. Our materials are critical to safety, providing peak power for engine and emergency power backup. Rechargeable Battery Components in Drilling applications Nickel 201/270 strip for rechargeable battery components used in oilfield downhole tools, drilling, measurement

AMETEK Specialty Metal Products has built a reputation for first class product quality and reliability, and that’s why so many leading commercial and defense aviation programs use our high performance materials. 50 years Aerospace Expertise We have more than 50 years experience developing precision strip, wire and shaped component products for critical aerospace applications worldwide. Our aerospace portfolio includes: High Tolerance Custom Shaped Wire for Aircraft Push-Pull Controls Pfinodal® (C72900) Bearing Material for Landing Gear Bushings and Bearing Sleeves Specialty Shaped Wire for Lock Collar Tape used in Aerospace Rivets Highly Conductive Nickel Strip for Aerospace Electronic Connectors, Batteries, Heat Exchangers and Bellows. Lighter and Stronger Materials for Aircraft Performance At 35,000 feet, every detail matters. We’re dedicated to manufacturing precision, lightweight and high strength materials to enhance the performance and efficiency of aircraft worldwide.

Our titanium strip portfolio includes titanium grade 23 (Ti 6Al-4V ELI) and titanium grade 5 (Ti 6Al-4V). These products are custom-made to exacting specifications and predominantly used for implantable medical devices. We also work in partnership with Hamilton Precision Metals, part of AMETEK Specialty Metal Products, to engineer titanium strip and foil in Ti Grades 1, 2, 4 and 9 down to 1.5 microns (0.000060”) thickness. Titanium Grade 23 Strip (Ti 6Al-4V ELI) Ti 6Al/4V ELI strip is used in medical implant applications owing to its excellent biocompatibility, high strength, and MRI compatibility. Titanium Grade 5 Strip (Ti 6Al-4V) Ti 6Al/4V strip has an excellent combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and fabricability. Consequently, it is used extensively in aerospace, medical, marine, and chemical processing, and surgical implants.

Precision re-rolled stainless steel strip products can be engineered to specific customer requirements with exceptionally short lead times. Based on our longstanding expertise, we can manufacture stainless steel strip to precise custom sizes, ultra-thin gauges and tightly controlled mechanical properties with any surface finish. We also work closely with Hamilton Precision Metals, part of AMETEK Specialty Metal Products, to produce stainless steel foils down to 1.5 microns (.000060”) thickness. Standard Alloys We manufacture stainless steel strip in a variety of chemical and mechanical properties, expertly engineered to your exacting specifications. High performance stainless steel strip material includes: Austenitic: 300 series Martensitic: 400 series Ferritic: 400 series PH Grades 17-7PH®, 17-4PH® Additional options available on request

Our pure nickel strip products are custom-engineered to 99.98% purity for critical battery connector applications. We employ an advanced wrought powder metallurgy process to deliver material with significant advantages in comparison to standard wrought nickel battery strip. Key benefits include: 15-20% higher conductivity than traditional cast nickel strip Consistent chemistry control Standard and custom sizes & tempers Short lead-times and small minimum order sizes Superior surface finish Pure Nickel Strip Grades We offer three high purity nickel alloy strip grades that are mainly used for battery connector applications: Nickel 270 – UNS N02270 (899A) - WNR 2.4050 Nickel 270 strip (899A) is our highest purity material with superior conductivity to cast products and offers the most flexibility in design for cost savings, weight reduction, or increased power.

Here at Hamilton Precision Metals, we’re passionate about cold rolling metal strip in a diverse range of specialty alloys to meet your exacting specifications. Our extensive precision strip product range include stainless steel strip, nickel strip, titanium strip, copper based strip, cobalt based strip and many more alloys. We have the expertise to roll light gauge strip from 1.5 mm (.060”) down to 0.127 mm (0.005”). Broadest Range of Alloys We offer an extensive portfolio of almost every high performance alloy made today. Additional alloys are available upon request, contact us today! Stainless Steels Nickel Based Alloys Copper Based Alloys Cobalt Based Alloys Commercially Pure Titaniums Strain Gage: Constantan®, Evanohm®,

Our High Purity Iron is generally used as a header material for Hermetic Package applications. The material is characterized by the extremely low carbon content (below 100ppm). Additional applications are as a catalyst for synthetic diamond production.

Our standard offering of nickel chrome strip products contain a chrome percentage ranging from 20%, 30% and 35% chrome (balance nickel). Silicon can also be added to the product to promote de-oxidation during the welding process The 35% chrome (AMETEK 835) is one of the highest chrome containing products offered in the industry and our high purity process allows for elongations above 45% for even those products containing silicon additions between 1% and 2%.

Titanium for Implantable Medical Devices Ti 6Al/4V ELI sheet has found application in medical implants owing to its excellent biocompatibility, high strength, and MRI compatibility. In the cold rolled and annealed temper the material will not exhibit a continuous alpha network at prior beta grain boundaries or a continuous alpha case layer on the surface. Owing to the alloy’s high strength and low ductility, it is difficult to cold draw into finished shapes. Hot forming has been found to be effective.

Our roll bonded clad plate products are engineered for demanding ASME pressure vessel, steam boiler and autoclave applications where high corrosion resistance, pressure resistance and structural performance are critical. Using proven roll bonded technology and corrosion resistant alloys, our high strength clad plate is manufactured to exacting pressure vessel specifications and certified to ASTM A263, A264 or A265 for pressure vessel fabrication. Corrosion Resistant Alloys We specialize in processing high corrosion resistant alloys and BPVC rated materials for stainless steel pressure vessel manufacturers. Other alloys include: Stainless Steels Nickel and Nickel Alloys Inconel®, Monel®, Hastelloy® Aluminum Carbon steel Titanium Other alloys available upon request

Automotive safety systems need to be reliable, accurate, and capable of saving lives. We work closely with automotive component suppliers worldwide to develop custom metal strip materials that enhance performance and safety. Precision Engineered Strip for the Automotive Industry You’ll find our strip products in many critical automotive systems in today’s vehicles including: Reed switch systems Nickel strip for EV battery connectors Electronic Connector Materials High Performance Automotive Alloys Nickel-iron compositions from 36% to 65% nickel High purity nickel Strip Spinodal alloys Safe and Efficient Automotive Material Solutions Our metallurgists engineer custom material solutions using the highest quality alloys to ensure maximum automotive performance, reliability and safety.

Our precision metal strip products are custom-made in biocompatible alloys for implantable medical devices that improve quality of life for patients around the world. We work in partnership with Hamilton Precision Metals to manufacture innovative metal materials that enable smaller, lighter and higher performing medical implants. Superior Titanium Strip for Implantable Medical Devices We have developed proprietary practices for the successful reduction of Titanium Grade 5 (6Al-4V) and Titanium Grade 23 Alloys (6Al-4V ELI) to thicknesses of 0.0039” (0.10mm). Our process results in a finish much superior to alternative methods of etching or grinding strips to gauge. This surface finish and gauge control translates to improvements in finished product quality as well as process controls during drawing, stamping, etching or laser cutting. These alloys are offered in the fully annealed or the as-rolled tempers.

For the last 60 years, AMETEK Specialty Metal Products has built a strong reputation for supplying major companies within the space industry with high performance materials. Our high quality, lightweight and innovative products deliver outstanding durability and corrosion resistance for space launch vehicles and satellites. Advanced Materials for Space Applications We specialize in engineering precision metal strip and metal composites using the highest quality and purity materials. Our products are used to improve performance in critical space applications, including: Molybdenum-Copper composites for heat management in electronic packages that operate in spacecraft and satellites. High purity Nickel strip for battery connectors in weight sensitive space applications, that deliver 15 - 20% higher conductivity than traditional cast nickel strip.

AMETEK Specialty Metal Products has built a reputation for first class product quality and reliability. That’s why leading defense programs use our high-performance materials. Leadership in Defense Metals We have more than 50 years of experience developing precision strip and thermal management products for critical defense applications worldwide. Our defense portfolio includes: Thermal management materials for semiconductor heatsinks Nickel strip for battery connectors High Performance Defense Alloys Molybdenum Copper (AMC) and Tungsten Copper (AWC) High purity nickel strip Trusted for Critical Defense Applications Due to their excellent thermal conductivity and controlled thermal expansion, our Molybdenum-Copper and Tungsten-Copper composites are the preferred materials for Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors for the defense industry. Our heat spreader materials are trusted in sensitive applications such

Our Nickel-Iron-Cobalt alloys are engineered to ASTM F15 standards for sealing materials and their specified coefficients of thermal expansion. These materials used primarily for making hermetic seals with harder glasses and ceramics (lids for hybrid packages). Nickel-Iron-Cobalt alloys include F-15 alloy, Kovar ® and Rodar ®. The low levels of impurities in the material reduce the chance of out-gassing over time; a critical role in maintaining the hermetic seal.

Our Nickel-Iron alloys are engineered to the ASTM F30 standards for sealing materials and their specified coefficients of thermal expansion. These materials are generally used as the sealing material to bridge the difference between two materials of differing expansion rates during heating and to maintain a hermetic seal. These Nickel-Iron Strip Products are generally used in glass to metal sealing applications ranging from light bulbs to hermetically sealed integrated circuits as well as electrical applications such as switch-gear connections and reed switch systems. Nickel Iron alloys include Invar®, alloys 42, 46, 48 and 52. Others available on request.

We offer two Spinodal alloy grades produced through the same wrought powder metallurgy as copper based products with nickel and tin additions. Our Pfinodal® (C72900) and AM 388® (C72650) spinodal materials deliver similar mechanical properties to Beryllium Copper alloy (C17200) but without the carcinogenic exposure risks. Advantages include: No carcinogenic elements - only copper/nickel/tin Ductile state and heat treatable Electrically conductive Reduced distortion during heat treatment Reduced stress relaxation Safe Alternative to Beryllium Copper (UNS C17200) Recently, Pfinodal® and AM-388® have been chosen as a replacement for Beryllium Copper due to the carcinogenic effects of Beryllium and fears of bans on Beryllium containing products due to REACH, RoHS, and OSHA mandates. Spinodal materials are gaining acceptance in new projects as well as legacy qualifications as manufacturers, OEMs, and consumers reject products

AMETEK Specialty Metal Products uses a wrought powder metallurgical process to ensure the highest purity finished products. Our main strengths lie in the processing of Nickel, Iron and Cobalt containing alloys amongst other available materials. The processing of these materials begins with the consolidation of powder through a roll compaction process and followed by a controlled atmosphere sintering. Further reduction of the material is performed solely under cold working temperatures to reduce the introduction of non-metallics and annealing is performed under controlled atmospheres. AMETEK Strip Products are produced in ranges between .002” (0.05mm) and .080” (2.03mm) thicknesses in a full range of tempers and widths to 22” (558.8mm) while maintaining special capabilities to produce materials outside of these ranges for special applications. This process lends itself to the production of small but easily reproducible lots of highly specialized alloys

Moly Permalloy® is a Nickel-Iron-Molybdenum alloy with a magnetic permeability that makes it suitable for electrical shielding applications. The alloy can be readily formed from the annealed temper.Effective magnetic shielding is provided by annealing at 1900°F or higher. Joining is accomplished by spot welding or tungsten inert gas welding. Available Sizes: Moly Permalloy® is available from Hamilton Precision Metals as strip product from 0.0005” to 0.015” (0.0127 mm to 0.38 mm) in widths to 12.0” (304.8 mm). It is also available in foil as thin as 0.000100” (0.00254 mm) in widths of 4.0” (101.6 mm) maximum. The metal conforms to ASTM A753, Type 4 and MIL N 14411, Type 1.

Rodar® is an Iron-Nickel-Cobalt alloy with an unique linear thermal expansion coefficient. It is also stable to cryogenic temperatures. This combination of characteristics has prompted its application in electrical package sealing of glass/metal and ceramic/metal. Rodar® can be formed and deep drawn from the annealed temper. A 1/8 hard temper is optimum for heavy piercing.The material can be joined to other metals by welding, brazing, and soldering. The joint design must consider that Rodar® has a lower expansion coefficient than most other metals. Available Sizes: Rodar® is available from Hamilton Precision Metals as strip product in thicknesses from 0.001” to 0.060” (0.0254 mm to 1.524 mm) and width up to 12.0” (304.8 mm). The material conforms to ASTM F15, AMS 7728 and UNS K94610.

Unalloyed Tantalum is supplied to ASTM F560 – R05200 composition limits. Tantalum is selected for its corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity, high melting point, and ability to form a dielectric oxide film. Tantalum is very ductile and can be readily cold formed due to a low work hardening rate. Welding can be accomplished via resistance, TIG, or electron beam methods, with care taken to protect the weld and heat affected zone from air during welding. Because of the potential for hydrogen embrittlement, Tantalum can not be used for extended service in air or other oxidizing atmospheres above 260°C unless a protective inert atmosphere or vacuum is provided. Available Sizes: Tantalum is available from Hamilton Precision Metals as strip product from 0.0005” to 0.035” (0.0127 mm to 0.889 mm) in widths up to 12.0” (304.8 mm). The material conforms to UNS R05200 and meets the requirements of ASTM F560 and ASTM B708.

Evanohm® R is a unique resistance alloy with high electrical resistivity and very low temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR). The alloy is produced by melting and conditioning practices which result in a low level of pinholes at ultra-thin thicknesses. This combination of attributes with inherent corrosion resistance makes it suitable for a variety of strain gauge, foil heaters and airbag igniters. The alloy is supplied with 90% cold reduction which has a positive TCR of about 70 PPM/ºC. A stabilizing heat treatment (approximately 475ºC) during manufacture of finished parts adjusts the TCR to a desired value. The heat treatment virtually eliminates any drift tendency of the resistivity. A heat-treat curve for each melt is developed at Hamilton and is made available as a guide in regulating TCR. Sizes Evanohm® R is available from Hamilton Precision Metals as foil and strip product in thicknesses from 0.0005” to 0.010” (0.0127 mm to 0.254 mm) and in widths up to 12.0”

Constantan® is a copper-nickel alloy that contains specific minor amounts of additional elements to achieve precise values for the temperature coefficient of resistivity. Careful control of melting and conversion practices results in a very low level of pinholes at ultra-thin thicknesses. The alloy is used extensively for foil resistors and strain gauges. The TCR can be adjusted from the furnished cold rolled values by using a low temperature heat treatment to achieve compensation for all types of spring elements. The foil is normally supplied with 90% cold reduction and a smooth bright surface. The foil is reasonably flat at 4” wide and nearly free of pinholes. The cold rolled foil can be produced with a TCR between +10 to –35 PPM/°C. The heat treatment will shift the foil TCR to the desired value. A typical heat-treat curve for Constantan® shows decreasing resistivity but increasing TCR with increased heat-treating temperature.

Cobalt-based metals are typically alloyed with chrome, nickel, iron and tungsten. They are used in challenging environments in applications that demand high temperature strength and hardness, excellent wear and corrosion resistance.

Ti Grade 9 is a near alpha, alpha-beta alloy, sometimes referred to as “half-6-4.” It offers 20 to 50% higher tensile strength than the commercially pure titanium at room and elevated temperatures. It is much more amenable to cold working than Ti 6AI/4V alloy and can be cold worked 75 to 85% to result in moderately high strength and good ductility The alloy can be formed from the annealed temper. Severe forming may be aided by an intermediate stress relief. Stress relieving may be appropriate after severe cold forming to remove residual stresses. Weldability and corrosion resistance is very similar to commercially pure titanium. Welding should be performed with inert gas shielded arc or spot welding.Welding with active gases, coatings, or fluxes must be avoided to prevent embrittlement.

CP Titanium is selected for its favorable strength to weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance. Two levels of purity permit a choice of finish strength. The alloy can be formed from the annealed temper. Severe forming may be aided by an intermediate stress relief at 1000°F. Stress relieving may be appropriate after severe cold forming to remove residual stresses. Welding should be performed with inert gas shielded arc or spot welding. Welding with active gases, coatings, or fluxes must be avoided to prevent embrittlement. Available Sizes: CP Titanium is available from Hamilton Precision Metals as strip product from 0.0005” to 0.025” (0.0127 mm to 0.635 mm) and widths up to 12.0” (304.8 mm). A foil product is available as thin as 0.000085” (0.002159 mm) and widths of 4.0” (101.6 mm) maximum. The material conforms to ASTM F67, ASTM B265, AMS 4902 and UNS R50250,R50400.