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

16 Jul
From Graphite Blocks to Graphite Component

From Graphite Blocks to Graphite Component

We’ve covered many details in this blog about our machining of graphite components, including the different types of graphite that we use, design considerations, and some case studies about how we solved particular problems that our clients have run into. In this blog, we would like to provide a grand overview of the process that a block of graphite goes through in our facility to become finished graphite components ready to ship to our customers. More specifically, we want to tell you about the machines that do the cutting, shaping, and finishing of graphite blocks until they become the parts...

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05 Jul
Graphite Material Property-Coefficient of Thermal Expansion

Graphite Material Property-Coefficient of Thermal Expansion

At Semco Carbon, we are constantly thinking of new, relevant, and useful topics involving graphite materials and graphite applications to share with the readers of this blog. If something has to do with the manufacture of graphite products, we’ve probably got a lot to say, and a story to tell, about it. During a recent meeting, our application engineers were working on a specific issue that one of our customers was having. This customer had been experiencing premature component breakage in a new high temperature process they were testing. After thinking about the specifics of their application, we realized that...

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28 Jun
Maintaining graphite production operations during the Covid pandemic

Maintaining graphite production operations during the Covid pandemic

Over the last year, many cherished activities ceased, at least temporarily. Music concerts, gone; indoor dining, gone; dinner parties with family and friends, gone; but graphite manufacturing, at least at Semco, hardly hit a snag. As the world begins to re-open and we assess our lives in this unusual moment, Semco would like to take time to congratulate our employees at every level for their nearly flawless maintenance of graphite production over the course of the COVID pandemic. We feel blessed as a company that the products we make are so integral to various industries, and we feel proud that...

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