Elmet Facilities
Elmet facilities and locations include its corporate headquarters in Lewiston, ME, along with highly specialized production sites in Euclid, OH and Coldwater, MI. We are a US-owned and operated fully integrated company founded in 1929. Our history includes over 70 years as part of Royal Philips and Philips Lighting.
As a 100% owned and operated business, Elmet Technologies is rapidly growing by investing in and developing US domestic production of tungsten, molybdenum, and niobium. Aside from our extensive product portfolio, Elmet Technologies also offers a variety of unique toll services like extrusion, forging, and hot and cold rolling to provide our customers with a full range of refractory metal solutions. If you’d like to learn more about our capabilities, please contact our expert customer service team.
Elmet: Strategic Production Facilities in the USA
Elmet Technologies stands out as a leading global provider, uniquely positioned as the only U.S. owned and operated tungsten and molybdenum manufacturer. We actively source our niobium from reliable Western sources, ensuring high-quality materials that we process right here in the USA. Our expert team brings extensive application knowledge and material expertise, offering responsive technical support to deliver superior metal solutions that meet and exceed performance expectations.
Elmet Facilities – Lewiston, ME
World-class tungsten powder production, rod swaging/machining, and fragmentation capabilities.
- 220,000 sq. ft. facility.
- Has been producing pure W powder and products for 90 years.
- Holds over a dozen sintering furnaces.
- Rolling mills, machining and fabrication, rod swaging, and wire drawing.
- Currently wire drawing over 30 million meters of fine tungsten wire a month.
- Has unique expertise in small-diameter rod swaging.
- Large precision machining area (VMCs, EDMs, Lathes, 9-axis Tsugami, etc.).
Key Production Capabilities in Lewiston
TUNGSTEN POWDER & PRESSING
ADVANCED MACHINING
SINTERING
ROD SWAGING & WIRE DRAWING
Elmet Facilities – Euclid, OH
Molybdenum and tungsten machining with advanced hot and cold rolling capabilities.
- Specializes in rolling pure tungsten and molybdenum alloys.
- Broad and precise machining capabilities for refractory metals supporting aerospace and defense applications.
- 5 large rolling mills for the production of plate, sheet, and foil flat products.
- The largest hot mill for W and Mo in the USA. The only other US mills of this type are at our Lewiston facility.
Key Production Capabilities IN Euclid
ROLLING MILLS
SINTERING
PRECISION CUTTING
CNC MACHINING
Elmet Facilities – Coldwater, MI
World-class powder production and extrusion capabilities.
- Founded over 60 years ago. Focused on large diameter rods.
- There is a dedicated building for spray drying and plasma densification of powders.
- The widest range of molybdenum and alloy powder blends in the world, with extensive powder processing expertise.
- Leading bar and tube processing facility with decades of extrusion, GFM, bar rolling mills, bar straightening, and swaging experience.
- World-class extrusion press speed control offers a wide range of materials.
- World-class laser bed additive manufacturing (3D printing)
- The only US hot GFM rotary forge focused on refractory metals.
- Extensive sintering, machining capabilities and TZM forging dies.
- Powder spray drying and plasma densification.
- 5500-ton extrusion press.
Key Production Capabilities in Coldwater
MOLYBDENUM POWDER PRODUCTION
EXTRUSION PRESS
LASER POWDER BED FUSION (L-PBF)
ROTARY FORGE