Materion Expands Capacity at Wheatfield Facility

Materion Microelectronics & Services, a unit of Materion Corp., completed a 50 percent capacity expansion of its Wheatfield, N.Y., facility, the company announced.

The site provides precision parts cleaning and surface treatment of physical vapor deposition shield kits for manufacturers of photovoltaics, medical consumables, LEDs and wireless products. The expansion includes a fully automated robotic twin wire arc spray, new cleaning processes, increased precious metals refining capacity and a Class 10,000 certified cleanroom.

The company also has precision parts cleaning facilities in Ireland and the Czech Republic.

Materion Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies advanced enabling materials such as specialty metals, coatings and engineered beryllium alloys.

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