History of Materion - DOD partnership, etcI was checking out the Materion website and found their About web page with a link to their history.
Materion started in 1931 and has grown ever since. In my opinion, two things stand out.
1. They have already partenered with the Department of Defense.
2. They have been acquiring other companies since 1971 and have acquired 7 companies since 2000. Hmmmmm...... ! Check out their history page on their website: https://materion.com/about/company-history
Here is that history since the year 2000. 2000 – Brush Wellman Inc., Technical Materials Inc, Zentrix Technologies, and Williams Advanced Materials and the foreign subsidiaries became wholly-owned subsidiaries of a newly created holding company, Brush Engineered Materials Inc.
2000-2004 – Established additional distribution, service and sales organizations in Asia to serve that growing market.
2003-2004 – Brush refinances debt and issues offering of common stock.
2005– Brush delivered optical grade beryllium mirror blanks to Northrop Grumman Space Technology for the primary mirror for NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope.
2005 – Williams acquires OMC Scientific Holdings in Ireland, and Thin Film Technology, Inc. in Buellton, California.
2006 – Williams acquires CERAC, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
– Brush reaches 75th anniversary on January 9.
2008 – Williams acquired Techni-Met in Windsor, Connecticut.
2009 – Williams acquired Barr Associates Inc. in Westford, Massachusetts and Academy Corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The 2010s – Becoming One Company
2010... New beryllium pebble plant opens at the Elmore facility completed under an innovative private-public, cost-sharing partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense.
2011 – Materion acquires Shanghai-based EIS Optics.
On March 8, 2011, Brush Engineered Materials Inc. became Materion Corporation, unifying all of the Company’s businesses under the Materion name. Shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the new symbol: MTRN.
2012 – Materion acquired Aerospace Metal Composites Limited (AMC) of Farnborough, England.
2017 – Materion acquired the target materials business of the Heraeus Group, of Hanau, Germany.
IMHO , This sounds like a great move for Ucore to partner with Materion in the bid process!