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Services
Refining
Our refining tradition goes back 100 years, it consists in preparing precious metal waste from the jewellery, the watch, the electronics, the medicine industries and from our own production to form pure precious metals that can be reused.
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Foundry
Once precious metals have been refined, we test their purity by means of ICP and then process them to form homogeneous alloys. The continuous casting systems that we develop constitute a special feature and one of Cendres+Métaux’s core competencies.
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Chemical analysis
Before the casts can be further processed to create half-products, they must first be analyzed and approved. The composition of the alloys is tested and documented using XRF (x-ray fluorescence). Our laboratories are accredited and some of them are operated by state-sworn precious metal testers (essayeurs jurés).
Production of half- products
The casts approved for production are processed during the production of half-products to form wires, profiles, sheet metal and tubes. We do this using punching presses, wire and tube drawing systems, strip mill systems and straightening plants. The half-products are given the required mechanical properties by means of heat treatment in annealing plants such as muffle kilns and continuous furnaces.
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Material testing
Half-products are tested for hardness and tensile strength. Metallographic sections show grain size and structure. We carry out material testing in order to ensure that materials are of top quality and ideal for processing.
Micromechanical production
Micromechanical production involves further processing half-products on state-of-the-art machines to form precise components for medical technology. In addition to the precious metals, we also mechanically process pure titanium and titanium alloys. Our strengths include turning and milling components. Having spent decades gaining processing knowledge of precious metal and titanium, as well as in selecting appropriate tool parameters, we have become a specialist in this industry.
Engineering
Our engineering not only includes customer-specific feasibility analyses but also global support during product implementation – from the idea to the finished and packed product. Thanks to our competent team, and many years of experience, you can rest assured that the production process will be smooth and therefore suitable for series production.
Quality control
Using ultra-modern 3D coordinate measurement machines, we record the mass of the components and monitor the production process by means of SPC. Thanks to the statistical process control and the information gained from it on process control, the products created have a constant high quality and meet customer requirements. All products are subject to a final visual check.
Process control
Thanks to the high degree of vertical integration of the production processes, we are able to control each step of process optimally and therefore secure consistent high product quality.
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