Custom Carbon and Graphite Machining Blog

27 May

Networking and Graphite Production

Networking has always been an integral and important tool for Semco, as for any graphite company. Our network doesn’t just facilitate people-to-people communication, but also people-to-machine. As CNC machining has taken on a bigger role in graphite production at Semco, so has our network, which allows our machinists and engineers to program runs and complex jobs. In early 2020, we thought Semco was a highly networked workplace. Then came March 2020. With COVID restrictions, networking has taken on an even bigger role in our graphite company. Departments that understood in-person work as the bread and butter of what they do...

18 May

Graphite Machining into 2nd Shift

It’s no secret: Semco is growing. Our graphite production business has seen a strong uptick over the last year as demand for graphite machining continues to grow. We maximized production at our Lorain facility in every conceivable way to meet demand, including investing in new state-of-the-art machines, upgrading network capacity and remote conferencing for efficiency, and of course investing in our excellent workforce, the people that make Semco a leader in graphite machining. Our business really took off last year with a big push by our sales department. These initiatives have, so far in 2022, rewarded us with increased sales....

28 Feb

Graphite Manufacturing Issues with Supply

As a graphite company, Semco pays a lot of attention to trends in graphite manufacturing. Of great interest to any company in the graphite field is the expected ramp up of electric vehicle production both domestically and internationally. The fastest growing car company in the world exclusively makes electric cars (do we need to say who it is?), and most major auto manufacturers have plans to transform their petrol-burning fleets to electric vehicles. When they begin putting those plans into action (as many already have--see the new electric Ford F-150s, for example), the need for battery components will ramp up,...

15 Feb

Meet Graphite Cost Estimator, Chris Fultz

We are a graphite company with many state-of-the-art machines, but we also are a graphite company of great people. On this blog, we like to shine a spotlight on some of the people that make our graphite machining operation successful. One of those people is Chris Fultz. Chris started at Semco in 2017, and now has almost 5 years with the company. We brag a lot on our employees, and you may wonder how Semco finds enough employees expert in the precision graphite machining that we do. The truth is, sometimes they find us, and occasionally, there are happy accidents.....

01 Feb

2022 Graphite Company Goals

2022 is off to a running start at Semco. We began gathering our momentum around the midpoint of 2021. Last summer was the beginning of an aggressive growth for this graphite company. The amount of orders rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, and then surpassed those levels. We think that 2022 will be a record-setting year for us. At Semco, we often think about our fundamentals, the key graphite elements that make our business thrive. Keeping these things in focus is our strategy for success. Of course, our most important resource is our employees. We are, unfortunately, experiencing a job market that...