Custom Carbon and Graphite Machining Blog

05 Nov

Recycle to Recycle: Electrolysis Rust Removal

At Semco, we love carbon products, and we’re distressed to think that many end up being unnecessarily thrown away and eventually end up in a landfill. To prevent the waste of our beloved carbon graphite, we have posted about ways to recycle it. Last month we posted a blog titled “Recycle to Recycle: Brush Plating” in which we detailed how recycled graphite can be used in the brush plating process, which is a method of plating that uses an applicator hooked up to an electrical current to brush on the plating metal. Brush plating works by using a portable power...

26 Aug

Semco Carbon Appears in Thermal Processing Magazine for a Second Time this Summer!

We are honored that Thermal Processing Magazine is running a profile of Semco Carbon in the most recent edition of their magazine. Semco has a great relationship with the magazine, which recently published an article we authored about several issues that arise in the graphite machining process, particularly difficulties in machining components for advanced heat treat industries. We are proud that Thermal Processing, which publishes important work in our field, took an interest in our company and explored reasons for its success. The profile highlights several aspects of our business, especially our close work with customers from selecting graphite grades...

19 Aug

Graphite Material Quality Series - Blog 4: Cold Chunk

Series Introduction:Semco has made its name in graphite manufacturing, an industry that requires great investment in tools, technology, and training. Our machining capabilities and ability to customize graphite elements for clients’ manufacturing systems make us a go-to for companies that require industrial components made of carbon. This series of blogs will focus on a more behind-the-scenes, but no less important, aspect of our business: the selection and utilization of high-quality graphite material. At Semco, we take choosing the right graphite grade for each project very seriously because we know that the finished component, no matter how skillfully tooled, will only...

12 Aug

Semco Machines CFC (Carbon Fiber Composites)

Graphite is our main game at Semco. Our business and reputation are built on years of experience in graphite machining. Our engineers and machinists know just about everything there is to know about working with graphite material. Our customers count on this expertise we have built up over decades of working with carbon materials. It’s never enough to rest on your laurels, though. Semco constantly works to streamline our shop floor operation, include the latest technologies to bolster our graphite machining capabilities, and solve problems that come up for our customers. To grow our business, we also look for new...

05 Aug

Compressive vs. Flexural Strength

At Semco, we think of ourselves as master problem solvers. Since we take the utmost care in the machining of graphite materials, we often find that problems reported by our customers, under careful investigation, turn up issues not related to the quality of the graphite components we machined. Just because we are confident in our product doesn’t mean we stop investigating, though. On the contrary--we want our customers to get the most out of their graphite components. If they are not working properly, or breaking, we will help the customer get to the bottom of the issue, whether or not...