Precious & High-Value Material Management

Williams Advanced Materials provides a wide range of reclamation programs for precious metals and high-value materials, including materials used in the coating processes from the Solar Photovoltaic industry to Wireless and Photonics production and in the Magnetic Data Storage, Compound Semiconductor, and Optics markets. WAM evaluates each market we supply materials to and creates a process stream from raw materials and critical internal processing to reclamation, providing customers with an efficient material management program.

Complete Precious Metal Recovery
This strategic customer service division is supported by an on-site chemical refinery. We are the only shield kit precision parts cleaning services provider with internal refining capabilities supporting complete customer precious metal control and industry-leading returns and lead times. And our flexible settlement options support our customers’ internal accounting needs.

High-Value Materials
We recycle and reclaim materials beyond the traditional "Big Four" (Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium) to include Rh, IR, Ru, Re and CIGS materials, giving customers credit for the material recovered.

This unique approach allows you to manage your high-value materials consumption and overall end product cost. We are able to pair our materials knowledge with our flexible operations systems, allowing us to quickly and efficiently put new cleaning lines into place to service your specific needs within a given region—and new materials are continually added to this offering.

Key service highlights include:

• Shield kit precision parts cleaning
• Precious metal PVD target reclaim
• High precious metal returns
• Competitive lead times
• Regional shield kit pickup & delivery service
• Low-grade precious metal refining (production by-products)
• Plating, etch solution refining
• Global service solutions

Key Market Examples Include:
Compound Semiconductor
The compound semiconductor market consumes a high volume of evaporation and sputtering materials, such as: Platinum group metals, Gold, and Silver. Williams has developed chemical cleaning processes that maximize your precious metal returns and reduce your production costs. Through partnerships with our customers, Williams is able to provide custom solutions, including parts texturizing and final packaging.

We offer aggressive shield part lead times to support customer tool uptimes and 24/7 production schedules. Final parts ultrasonics cleaning is closely controlled and documented to assure parts meet your most stringent process requirements.

Solar Photovoltaic
The increasing use of valuable materials like indium and gallium in the production of high-efficiency thin film photovoltaic cells is forcing cell manufacturers to consider valuable material recycling opportunities. Williams’ fully integrated service package for the management of Copper Indium Gallium and Selenide (CI(G)S) process the by-products.

Our complete valuable material life cycle management includes the supply of CIGS target materials, precision process chamber parts cleaning, and metal reclaim and refine. By recycling initial process materials, this integrated service offering has the potential to reduce your valuable material input costs by up to 25%, while ensuring that environmental commitments are met. The integrated supply of several discrete services provides a cost-competitive service package while rationalizing your supply chain.