how we work

Materials and Process Capabilities

Our material development programs and in-house electrical test capabilities ensure that we supply the most economical and highest-performing material for our customers’ specific applications.
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Cast Materials 
‍Offering the broadest range of electrical contact materials, Checon manufactures cost-effective cast materials such as fine silver, fine grain silver, auto alloy, coin silver, and silver cadmium internally oxidized silver in both one- and two-side oxidized versions.
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‍Powder Metallurgy
‍We also offer a complete range of powder metal products for specialized applications with unique material demands. These include powder compacted, sintered, and extruded materials such as silver tin oxide, silver cadmium oxide, silver nickel, and silver graphite, as well as Checon’s unique co-compacted “B” line of products that form a silver-backed material that is simultaneously compacted with these same materials.

Pressed, Compacted Tips 
‍Completing our capability, we manufacture individually compacted tips that include silver tungsten, silver tungsten carbide, copper tungsten, and silver graphite.