PEM Division (Platinum Engineered Materials)

Platinum Engineered Materials is a global technology leader for materials based on platinum. PEM supports major industries to reach the best possible performance with their process – being it for special glass, fiber glass or ammonia oxidation. Platinum-based materials are mainly used in two sectors: glass manufacturing and fertilizer production. In the glass industry PEM’s platinum- based products are used in the equipments to produce special highly-pure glass for optic, display and special glass that must be free of impurities as they could affect its shape or transparency. To increase the equipment’s lifetime Umicore has developed a unique engineered platinum material known as FKS.
For the fertilizers sector PEM make use of platinum’s exceptional catalytic properties to produce catalytic gauzes made of platinum/rhodium wires. Finally with Umicore’s Precious Metals Rifining PEM closes the loop and provides sustainable business solutions. www.pem.umicore.com

Ögussa with its network of branches is Austria's market leader in precious metals. Italbras markets in Italy platinum laboratory equipment and thermocouples wires. The laboratory equipment made of precious metals is an indispensable aid for much of the chemist's work. The main users are: industrial laboratories, food research establishments, grain mills, sugar factories, cement works, mining, universities, institutes and research establishments.
You can send damaged equipment back to us for precious metal recovery and reprocessing.
Ögussa offers thermocouple wire of Platinum and Platinum/Rhodium as Type S, R and B for the high temperature measurement. This is the “centre of thermocouples wires” in Umicore. We deliver in a few days ex warehouse.
www.oegussa.at

Italbras SpA has been representing in Italy Friatec AG for more than 30 years. Friatec is a leading manufacturer of high performance ceramic components for industrial use. Friatec’s products fall into four main categories: engineering ceramics, high temperature ceramics, electro ceramics and fine grinding tools. Marketed under the FRIALIT®-DEGUSSIT® brand name all these products are manufactured from high purity ceramic materials. Materials include aluminium oxide, zirconium oxide, silicon carbide, silicon nitride. FRIALIT®-DEGUSSIT® materials are employed in a wide range of applications in mechanical and chemical engineering, the offshore industry, pharmaceutical and food processing industries, in the packaging process and in the electro and microwawe fields.
FRIALIT®-DEGUSSIT® engineering ceramic materials all exhibit the same core characteristics, these include:

• High mechanical strength even at high temperatures
• Extremely resistant to wear and corrosion
• Excellent resistance to thermal chock
• Low specific gravity
• Stability at high temperatures up to 1950°C
• Excellent properties for electrical and thermal resistance
• Highly suitable for applications in the pharmaceutical and food processing machinery - certified by FDA (Food and Drug Administration, USA)

These characteristics will enable the ceramic parts to work under extreme conditions where traditional materials would fail. Special problems demand special solutions.
Besides standard products like tubes, rods, feedthroughs, disks and fine grinding tools Friatec produces special products on the basis of customer’s drawings. With a long experience in the manufacture of high-tech ceramic products and materials, Friatec is the most reliable partner to solve the most complex problems and supply the ideal material for your application.
www.friatec.com