Brush Engineered Materials Inc. (BW), through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is an international producer and supplier of high-performance engineered materials. Brush Engineered Materials’ four primary business segments are Advanced Material Technologies and Services, Specialty Engineered Alloys, Beryllium and Beryllium Composites, and Engineered Materials Systems. Brush Wellman Inc. is the only fully-integrated producer of beryllium, beryllium-containing alloys, and beryllia ceramic in the world. Engineered Material Systems are produced through Technical Materials, Inc (TMI) and precious metal, and specialty alloy products through Williams Advanced Materials Inc. (WAM)
Recently, the company’s Thin Film Technology (TFT), a unit of WAM, was awarded $9.8M in new contracts to provide Visi-Lid™ hermetic window assemblies and thin film hybrid circuits to DRS Technologies Sensors & Targeting Systems (DRS), Infrared Technologies Division. TFT is a leader in the production of precision optical coatings, thin film hybrid circuits, and highly engineered thin film coatings and services. The contract is for a period of up to 16 months.
TFT and several other units within WAM collaborated to create a custom-integrated solution with the Visi-Lid™ hermetic assembly for DRS. The Visi-Lid™ structural component is precision machined and plated at WAM’s Buffalo, New York headquarters facility. WAM manufactures precious, non-precious and specialty metal products at its facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Major markets for its products include magnetic data storage, wireless, semiconductor, photonics, medical sensors, and key applications of the micro electronics markets.
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