Custom Carbon & Graphite Machining

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

A Great Start2022 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.The FundamentalsAt 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...

25 Jan

A Brief History of Graphite

In our graphite production business, we take little for granted. To deliver the best graphite solutions to our clients, we cannot cut corners in sourcing sound material, hiring and training knowledgeable employees, and investing in state-of-the-art machines. Doing these things right allows us to produce excellent graphite applications. If there’s one thing we do take for granted though, it’s graphite. That’s not to say we don’t study the material closely -- in fact, we’re dedicated to a deep understanding of what graphite is and how to best use it to meet our customers’ needs.Working with graphite applications every day, we...

14 Jan

Graphite in Everyday Life

Carbon is known as the base element of many things in nature, including all life forms. The various forms carbon takes in nature are called allotropes. Graphite is one of these allotropes (diamonds are another). You probably knew that carbon is inside of you, but did you know that carbon graphite could be inside your smartphone, or inside your car brakes? In fact, there are literally thousands of industrial and commercial graphite applications. If there is an industrial need or problem these days, it is likely that there is a graphite solution. We handle graphite parts in various items everyday,...