Brush Wellman Alloy Products: Manufacturer of Copper, Copper Beryllium and Spinodal Alloys

Brush Wellman Inc. (BWI) is the only fully-integrated producer of beryllium, beryllium-containing alloys, and beryllia ceramic in the world. It is made up of three business units, Alloy Products, Beryllium Products and Ceramic Products.

Brush Wellman's Alloy Products group is the world's leading supplier of high performance alloys, providing high-strength, high-conductivity copper, copper beryllium and spinodal alloy products with unparalleled global service. Around the world, the company's engineered materials can be found in technically demanding end-use products serving markets such as aerospace, automotive, computer/telecommunications, foundry, manufacturing equipment, mobile equipment, oil & gas, plastic tooling, resistance welding and undersea/marine. Alloy products are manufactured at the company's facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and are distributed worldwide through a network of company-owned service centers, outside distributors and agents.

Brush Wellman Beryllium Products is the premier integrated global producer of beryllium-based metals and metal matrix composites. We provide high-performance metals and metal-matrix composites for mission-critical commercial, aerospace, x-ray, acoustics, research and engineering applications that require the highest levels of performance. Beryllium is one of the lightest metals known. It presents the designer with a combination of desirable properties not found in any other material. Strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios of beryllium are outstanding. It has the highest specific heat of any metal, as well as excellent thermal conductivity, and it has excellent properties at both elevated and cryogenic temperatures. Beryllium's unique physical properties make it the material of choice for x-ray and nuclear applications. The high stiffness to weight ratio combined with excellent damping properties make it the premier material for acoustics applications.

When combined with pure aluminum, beryllium forms a unique metal matrix composite (MMC), called AlBeMet®. This MMC is one of the easiest-to-machine MMC’s and has its own unique properties.

E Materials are high performance MMC’s that have tailorable thermal, physical and mechanical properties. This family of materials is ideally suited for electronic packaging applications.

Brush Ceramic Products Inc. is a global leader in high performance engineered ceramics that enable customers to meet superior levels of product strength, reliability, miniaturization, weight savings, and thermal dissipation. The unique properties of BeO make it the material of choice for critical components that require superior performance at high temperatures. Beryllia (beryllium oxide or BeO) ceramics possess a unique combination of properties and provide certain characteristics that make it a necessary component in a variety of applications.

BeO is lightweight, very rigid and has excellent thermal management properties - meaning it withstands extreme temperatures and rapidly dissipates heat better than any other ceramic material. Beryllia's thermal conductivity is ten times greater than alumina ceramics, making it useful in heat producing circuits, such as those carrying high currents or very dense circuitry. Beryllia's low dielectric constant allows improved electrical performance, particularly at higher frequencies.

Our markets are as diversified as our products and span numerous ever-evolving high-tech industries. Hot technology needs BeO ceramic. Products containing our materials are enhancing technology and Improving the Way We Live.