Over 50 Years Exceeding Customer Expectations

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Experts in the Industry

You are experts in your industry, and we are experts in ours. Together, we can create custom solutions to meet your goals, budget, and expectations.

Client Consultations

Our expert client consultations produce specialty pieces. No matter how unique the application, we go straight from sketch to three-dimensional solution.

Huge Inventory

Our huge inventory of raw materials, grades, shapes, and sizes allows us to respond quickly to customer demands, so that we can begin machining your product immediately.

Recycle With Us

Put some green in your pocket by going green with your obsolete carbon and graphite materials! Recycle with us, and you will reduce your liability and your ecological footprint.

Carbon and Graphite Machining and Recycling Facility - Semco Carbon

Custom Carbon & Graphite Machining

Fifty Years of Experience

Our custom carbon and graphite machining capabilities are engineered from the ground up with our client's budget, goals, and expectations in mind. No matter the tolerance, no matter the finish, no matter how specific your need, our years of experience coupled with the most advanced machining resources will keep your organization humming with minimal delay. We aren’t just experts in carbon and graphite machining—we’re also experts in client consultation and collaboration. We’re in the business of creating solutions, no matter how unique the problem.

Carbon & Graphite Material Recycling

We’ll purchase your obsolete carbon and graphite materials for reclamation or proper disposal. Less waste in the landfill, more green in your pocket — just the kind of win-win solution we’re in the business of creating.

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Custom Carbon & Graphite Machining

11 Sep

Advancements in Graphite Recycling: What You Need to Know

A question we often hear from customers: is graphite renewable? While graphite isn't renewable in the traditional sense—it's a carbon material formed over millions of years—the good news is that graphite can be recycled and reused effectively. As demand for graphite batteries and other applications continues to surge, recycling has become important for graphite producers facing supply chain challenges and sustainability pressures. Recycling regulations in most places don’t stipulate that graphite must be recycled, but the graphite market has made recycling not just a priority for the environmentally minded, but also for the bottom lines of businesses from graphite producers...

26 Jun

Graphite in Nuclear Energy: What You Need to Know

When most people think of nuclear power, they picture uranium fuel rods and massive cooling towers. But there's another material quietly performing important work inside many nuclear reactors: graphite. This form of carbon plays several roles in nuclear energy production such as controlling nuclear reactions and providing structural support in the world's most advanced nuclear power stations, like the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station just west of Lorain, OH on Lake Erie. And with President Trump’s recent executive orders on nuclear power, it is likely that this industry will grow in significance as the US looks to increase its energy output...

19 Jun

How Graphite is Revolutionizing Renewable Energy Storage

Graphite is Revolutionizing Renewable Energy StorageThe news about renewable energy can be dizzying. We are moving swiftly through a revolutionary shift from fossil fuels to renewables, says one article. Another asserts that we’re not moving quickly enough. The shift toward renewable energy is happening, and it is revolutionary, but it faces a basic challenge. We’re not sure about your corner of the world, but at Semco HQ in Lorain, Ohio, the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow. Storing energy when it's abundant and releasing it from a power bank when needed has become the critical puzzle...