Cerac will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Wam, continuing to manufacture specialty inorganic chemicals and thin film materials under the Cerac name in Milwaukee
Cerac has been acquired by Williams Advanced Materials (Wam) of Buffalo, NY, a subsidiary of publicly held Brush Engineered Materials.
Cerac will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Wam, continuing to manufacture specialty inorganic chemicals and thin film materials under the Cerac name in Milwaukee.
The Cerac workforce remains in place, so contacts at the company will not change.
Bart Ott, Cerac's former VP of sales and marketing, has been appointed VP and general manager.
Cerac and Wam have worked together in a reciprocal customer-supplier relationship for many years, and say that combining products, services and resources offers many advantages.
Both companies have extensive experience in the thin film industry.
Customers and suppliers will benefit from a broader product line, new deposition services, access to expanded technical knowledge and added global sales and service channels.
Cerac has been manufacturing specialty inorganic chemicals, evaporation materials and sputtering targets in Milwaukee since 1964.
Through a network of global sales and service channels, Cerac services industries such as precision optics, opthalmics, semiconductor, laser and display technologies with standard and custom manufactured materials.
Beyond Cerac, Williams Advanced Materials manufactures precious, non-precious and specialty metal products at facilities in New York, California and Asia, and provides precision cleaning and reconditioning services for physical vapor deposition customers at facilities in the USA and Ireland.
Major markets for Wam's products include magnetic and optical data storage, and the wireless, semiconductor, photonic and hybrid segments of the microelectronics markets.
Its sales in 2004 were $165.7 million.
Brush Engineered Materials is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
The company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies worldwide markets with beryllium products, alloy products, electronic products, precious metal products, and engineered material systems.
