Special Metals Corporation

Special Metals Corporation, based in Huntington, West Virginia, USA, is a manufacturer of primarily nickel-based alloys. The company has manufacturing facilities at its headquarters and in New Hartford, New York, USA, and in Hereford, England. In 1998 the company acquired Inco Alloys International. In 2006, was part of the Special Metals Precision Castparts Corporation, headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

In 2001, the company employed 3188 employees.

Most Common brand names include Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic, Nimoloy, Brightray that one has acquired by Inco and UDIMET.

The industrial production of nickel alloys began in 1906 with the invention of copper -nickel alloy, Monel alloy 400, the most in 1905 filed for the metallurgist Ambrose Monell for a patent. Inco Alloys ( International Nickel Company) was a leader in the development of new nickel alloys.

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