Core competences 

Product

• Casting of homogenous precious metal alloys with precise compositions

• Production of precision profiles made from precious metal alloys with tested mechanical properties

• Manufacturing of highly complex micromechanical precision components made from precious metal alloys and titan

• Industrial manufactured rings made from precious metal alloys

• We offer a broad range of high-end products and services in the precious metal field: complete internal material processing cycle “all in one”

Services

• Analytical and materials testing Laboratories
  
  Our tasks in the Cendres+Métaux laboratories include the characterizing and testing of new materials, verifying the quality of alloys and materials, establishing the fineness of jewellery alloys, establishing the fineness of waste containing precious metal and investigating complaints.
  
  Our chemists, physicists, metallurgists, sworn precious metal assayers and laboratory technicians work with state-of-the-art systems and comply with internationally recognised standards. The most important procedures have been accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Service (http://www.sas.ch/) in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 and are registered under STS 174. In addition, the analytical laboratory is regularly inspected by the Swiss Precious Metals Control authorities.
  
  Accreditation document (PDF 198 KB)
  STS directory (PDF 33 KB)
  
  The accreditation indicates that our competences are recognized by the Accreditation Services. It shows that our laboratories make independent testing decisions, employ competent staff, work with validated methods and are able to trace the tested merchandise back to the test results.
  
  Therefore, we bring a substantial contribution to the application of medical product and precious metal control legislations and can guaranty the conformity of our products and the reliability of our accounting analyses.

• Free precious metal account management

• SAP R/3 - a strategic success factor of the Cendres+Métaux group
  
  Having used the SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning software successfully for many years, we are able to provide transparency, security and stability both for our customers and within the company.
  We are a certified SAP Customer Competence Centre and optimize our collaboration with customers and suppliers by means of interconnecting company systems (supply chain management).
  Our market economy orientation, our optimal use of resources and our ability to control processes stimulate our motivation to maintain an innovative ERP system.
  
  SAP = SAP AG Walldorf, Germany
  ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning