Electrical Contact Materials

If you're looking for cost-effective performance across the entire spectrum of power switching and control, Checon material experts can assist your engineers in designing solutions that meet your specific needs. From high conductivity with low contact resistance to arc suppression for long contact life, Checon supplies a wide range of performance metal alloys and contact materials in various wire, strip, discrete tip, or tape forms. All of our materials are fabricated to customer print, quality, packaging, and logistics requirements, ensuring that you get exactly what you need to get the job done right.

what we offer

Precious Metal Alloys,  Brazing Alloys & Other Performance Contact Materials

Checon offers a comprehensive selection of both silver-based alloys and non-silver materials to meet the demands of our markets, including fine silver and silver nickel used in light switching applications, metal oxide materials favored for mid-power switching, refractory materials utilizing tungsten, and other ultra-high-temperature metal formulations.

WHAT WE OFFER

Material Specifications and Properties

Powder
Metallurgy

  • Silver Nickel Properties
    (Checon GNI & SNI)
  • Silver Tin Oxide Properties
    (Checon GTI)
  • Silver Cadmium Oxide Properties
    (Checon SKO)

Silver Cast
Alloys

  • Fine Silver
    (Ag)
  • Fine Grain Silver
    (FG-Ag)
  • SC5 - Grain Ag
  • Sterling Ag
  • Coin Ag
  • Silver Copper Nickel
    (AgCuNi)

Refractory
Metals

  • Silver Tungsten
    (AgW)
  • Silver Graphite
    (AgC)
  • Copper Tungsten
    (CuW)
  • Silver Tungsten Carbide Graphite
    (AgWC/C)
  • Silver Tungsten Carbide Graphite
    (AgWC/C)
For more detailed information on Checon's high-performance silver-based materials, please visit our Resources section for our library of individual data sheets.

Performance Applications -Refractory Products

Some of the most demanding applications, such as industrial circuit protection, automatic transfer switching, and power distribution switching in the grid, require the strength and heat resistance only found in refractory contact materials such as silver tungsten, silver tungsten carbide, and silver graphite. These products can be sold as discrete tips but are also offered in assemblies utilizing Checon’s proprietary discrete attachment processes such as RapidOne automation, furnace, inductance, and resistance brazed processes. Because the electrical current demands are significant, many of these substrates utilize Checon’s CNC and water jet machining capabilities.

Industrial Circuit Protection

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Automatic Transfer Switch

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Power Distribution, Substation and Energy Grid

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