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

03 Oct

Synthetic Graphite Supply Chain Update

Synthetic Graphite Supply Chain Since early 2020, Semco has been detailing in these blogs how pandemic-related supply chain issues have affected the synthetic graphite industry. Now that many of the supply chain issues we heard about so much in 2020 and 2021 have subsided, we wanted to check in on how this issue is affecting the availability of, and demand for, synthetic graphite. Lithium-ion Battery Anodes and Graphite Electrode Machining Apart from lithium, there is one material that is currently a fundamental part of all lithium-ion batteries, regardless of cathode chemistry: graphite. Graphite is a strangely unnoticed piece of the...

28 Sep

Graphite Material & the Glass Industry

Most consumers have probably never considered the relationship between carbon graphite and the glass industry. If people associate any other material with glass, it may be lead (which glass was once impregnated with to increase glass’s aesthetic properties). That being said, there is a heavy reliance on carbon graphite in the glass industry. Graphite is the ideal material for glass manufacturing due to its physical and chemical composition properties. If you’ve ever witnessed glass blowing, you may have an idea why graphite material is so useful in this industry. Hint: it has to do with a property of graphite material...

14 Sep

Challenges of Machining Graphite

Graphite materials have particular characteristics that make machining them into graphite parts a challenge. At Semco, we have decades of experience working with graphite materials, so we know these characteristics well. Our shop is designed with this unique material in mind, and our machines are perfectly calibrated to machining graphite without harming the material or the machines. What makes graphite difficult to machine? For starters, graphite is strong, but also soft and brittle. It is prone to chipping. Graphite is abrasive, potentially causing high tool wear. Graphite is typically machined without coolant and at high speeds. Our work centers are...