Umicore | Precious Metals Management

Refining Services

Refining of gold, silver, platinum and palladium has been an integral part of our North American operations for more than a century. These services are provided to all facets of the precious metal industry, such as jewellery, dentistry, chemical and industrial sectors. Our Management system conforms to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001:2018 (Canada...

Umicore is committed to sustainable business and strives to have a positive impact: enhancing quality of life through our products and services. Metal-related materials, the basis for sustainable products and services, are at the core of today’s life and have a vital role to play in furthering the progress of mankind and enabling future...

Beyond the Ready Stock™ Catalog selections, Umicore continues to provide an extensive range of quality products and unique alloys for "custom applications". Custom products are intended for use in a variety of technical applications in larger Jewelry and industrial operations. Contact us for further information.

Umicore provides gold, silver, and platinum group fabricated products in a wide range of dimensions and shapes. Standard products include grain, wire, sheet, strip, ring tube, and ring blanks. These products can be made to our standard specifications or custom to match the requirements of various Jewelry and industrial applications. Our ISO...

Germanium Products

Germanium compounds and products are created during the various stages of the production flowsheet from raw materials to semiconductor substrate. Starting with Germanium concentrate chlorinated and purified into GeCl4 , GeCl4 hydrolized to GeO2 and GeO2 reduced to Ge bars. The Ge crystals are grown using Czochralski crystal pulling and further...

Germanium Markets & Applications

The major end uses of germanium are in support of the telecommunications industry. It is used as dopant in telecom glass fibre and as semiconductor substrate for the solar arrays of telecommunication satellites. Other applications of germanium are CPV solar systems, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), gamma-ray detectors, infrared-optics, micro-...

Germanium Services

Umicore has unique pyro and hydro metallurgical processes to refine and recycle a wide variety of germanium-containing concentrates, solids, cakes, slurries and solutions. With the Umicore focus on sustainability, we have invested heavily in the R&D of our recycling processes the last couple of years and as a result, more than 50% of our supply...

Oil and Gas Boilers

Umicore’s DNX® SCR catalyst is designed for high DeNOx performance in boiler applications. SCR systems for boilers are designed to fit each unique application.