Semi-finished products for
individual requirements
SAXONIA offers you a diverse range of semi-finished precious metal products. Our portfolio ranges from bespoke castings, tubes, bars, sheets and wires to anodes, targets, precision strips, and milled and turned components. Our high-quality semi-finished products are used as technical materials and alloys in many different industrial sectors, or serve as first-class raw materials for jewellery and investment assets.
Our customers primarily include manufacturers of electrical contact parts, switches and fuses for the electrical engineering and electronics sectors, as well as plant manufacturers and suppliers to the chemical and energy sectors. We produce surfaces and strengths to customer specifications. We supply precious metal targets for thin-film technology, with main applications in optical data storage, electronics and glass coating.
Products
Flat products
- Sheets
- Stripes
- Tapes
- Transparencies
- Discs
- Anodes
- Plates
Round products
- Wires
- Poles
- Pipes
- bolt
Profiles
- Flat wires
- Profile wires
Targets & vapour deposition materials
- Planartargets
- Pipetargets
Milled – and turned parts
- Cooler plates
- Support components
- Adapters
Other products are available on request.
Materials
| Materials | Silver content at least in mass % | Silver content in per mille | Density in g/cm³ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ag9999… Ag999 | 99,99 … 99,9 | 999,9 … 999 | 10,5 |
| AgCu | 99,0 … 20,0 | 990 … 200 | 10,1 … 9,2 |
| Ag935 | 93,5 | 935 | 10,4 |
| Ag925 | 92,5 | 925 | 10,35 |
| Ag835 | 83,5 | 835 | 10,2 |
| AgCu50 | 50,0 | 500 | 9,7 |
| AgNi0,15 | 99,85 | 998,5 | 10,5 |
| AgCu1,8Ni0,2 | 98 | 980 | 10,4 |
| AgCu3Ni0,15 | 96,85 | 968,5 | 10,4 |
| AgNi90/10 | 90 | 900 | 10,3 |
| AgNi85/15 | 85 | 850 | 10,2 |
| AgNi80/20 | 80 | 800 | 10,1 |
Other recyclable materials are available on request if required.
Dimensions
| Flat products | Thickness in mm | Width in mm | Length in mm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous casting slabs | 20 … 32 | 110 … 300 | 250 … 1100 |
| Sheets | 0.2 … 5.0 | 100 … 500 | 100 … 1000 |
| Strips | 0.2 … 5.0 | 10 … 350 | 100 … 1000 |
| Anodes | 1 … 10 | 50 … 500 | 100 … 1000 |
| Bands | 0.1 … 1.0 | 1.0 … 100 | – |
| Transparencies | 0.03 … 0.1 | 1.0 … 100 | – |
| Round products | Diameter in mm |
|---|---|
| Round wires | 0.3 … 5.5 |
| Bars | 5.0 … 30.0 |
| Cast bolts | 85 … 110 |
Further dimensions are available on request if required.
Form of delivery / Condition on delivery / Surface finish
Continuous casting products
- As-cast condition
- Surface milled
Flat products
- cold-rolled
- soft-annealed
- customised strength
- blank
- brushed
- with film coating
Round products
- draw-hardened
- soft-annealed
- customised strength
- blank
- peeled by pulling
- cleaned
Conductive and contact materials
SAXONIA manufactures conductor and contact materials for various electrical and electronic components. The choice of material is crucial to their reliability and service life. A range of materials is therefore available for each specific application, ensuring the required electrical and thermal conductivity values, as well as the mechanical strength and technological properties necessary for processing and use.
Fuse link
SAXONIA supplies fuse links for fuses in low- and high-current applications. As a long-standing partner of the electrical engineering industry and renowned fuse manufacturers our high-tech products meet all the necessary standards.
AVAILABLE FORMS
| Flat products | Round products | Sections | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials | Broadband | Narrow belts | Transparencies | Round wires | Flat wires |
| Ag9999 … Ag999 | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ |
| AgCu50 | ■ | ■ | |||
| OF-Cu | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ |
| Cu/Ag (electroplated) | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ |
Dimensions
| Flat products | Thickness in mm | Width in mm |
|---|---|---|
| Broadbands | 0.1 … 0.8 | 20 … 100 |
| Narrow bands | 0.1 … 0.8 | 1.0 … 20 |
| Films | 0.03 … 0.1 | 1.0 … 100 |
| Round products | Diameter in mm |
|---|---|
| Round wires | 0.3 … 1.0 |
| Profiles | |
|---|---|
| Flat wires | Dimensions and tolerances as per agreement. |
Precious Metals Management / Services
- Precious metal fixation
- Management and administration of metal accounts
- Precious metal procurement
- Price information
- Recycling of production waste containing precious metals production waste
- Collection / insured transport by SAXONIA
- Cleaning / Precious metal recovery from shields and masks
- Chemistry laboratory and materials testing laboratory
Sputter targets and evaporation materials
SAXONIA manufactures targets and sputtering materials from precious metals. Our targets are used in PVD processes, for example for applications in optical data storage, electronics, photovoltaics, film coating or mirror manufacturing. The main application of silver targets is the large-area coating of architectural glass in magnetrons. This process imparts specific wavelength-dependent properties to the coated object (IR-reflective / transparent to visible light).
| Planar- / Pipetargets | |
|---|---|
| Materials | Ag / Pd / Au / AgPd / Pt / AgAu (high-purity, low O₂ content) |
| Shapes | various – based on drawings and customer requirements |
| Dimensions | Segmented large targets up to 4 m: thickness up to 40 mm plate length up to 1.5 m tubular targets up to 3.9 m |
| Castings | Various grades in accordance with customer specifications |
| Quality | Milled surface, tolerances as per drawing |
Service
- Recycling of used targets and sputtering residues
- Cleaning / Precious metal recovery from shields and masks
- Refilling and Refill of tube targets
- Joint target development and -optimisation
- Just-in-time delivery
- Direct Transport
Sales folder Semi-finished products
Quality
At SAXONIA, quality is of the utmost importance to us – both in terms of the purity of precious metals and in our manufacturing and processing. Using a wide range of testing methods and state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, we ensure that all the products we manufacture meet our high quality standards at all times.
EXTENSIVE FEATURES:
- Chemical laboratory
- Materials Laboratory
- Metallographic Laboratory
- Technical Centre / Testing Laboratory
COMPREHENSIVE TEST METHODS:
- Layer thickness
- Microstructures
- Surface roughness
- Geometry and spring forces
- Tensile – and compression tests
- Shear forces
- SPC control
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
We would be happy to advise you, for example with the selection of materials and their properties – and we’ll be happy to assist you upon request already with pleasure in the development process for your future application. Please get in touch with us.
Steffi Naumann
Tel. +49 3731 2089-447
Fax +49 3731 2089-430