"Traditional Integrity and Chemicals for Tomorrow"

About Us

Colonial Metals Inc. is a privately held United States based company incorporated in 1971. We are a full-service global supplier of Precious Metals and Precious Metal based chemicals with a comprehensive product line including over 600 products and services. Our product line spans from metal blacks and sponges through the most complex and sensitive of organometallic compounds.

Permeating the company is an attitude driven by the intent of our Corporate Mission: “To be measurably and demonstrably the best at what we do.” We require customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, quality workmanship and service, and on-time / on-target products. We produce complex chemicals and custom products that meet customer requirements on-time, every time.

In short, for every order taken we strive to demonstrate a few of our core values: Integrity, Flexibility, Willingness, Customer focus, and Satisfaction.

CMI is committed to quality as evidenced by our ISO 9001-2000 certification and SOCMA Membership and even more so by our role as a trusted partner / supplier for precious metal and chemicals. We take pride in the level of support CMI is able to offer to clients throughout the catalysis, electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and automotive industries and our strong ties to lab supply, academia, and government research.

– Metal Powders – RuO2, blacks, electronic powders.
– Thick and thin film materials
– CVD Precursors
– Specialty Silver and Osmium Compounds including OsO4
– Specialty Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
– Custom and contract inorganic, and organometallic synthesis and research
– Preformed catalysts and precursors for traditional and asymmetric transformations
– Basic Chlorides and Nitrates as solids or solutions.
– Tetraammine-metal OH, NO3, Cl, OAc, etc.
– Precious metal solutions
– Specialty packaging services
– Focused Ion Beam chemical services
– High purity capabilities

– Full service precious metal supply and sourcing.
– Direct network to precious metal producers, commodity banks, and trading counterparts.
– Pool account accommodations with periodic reporting
– Arranged pick up or delivery of metal at other PM suppliers.

What we do…

CMI focuses on the synthesis of precious metals chemicals and related services. It is what we do. We have done it for more than three decades and we do it well.

By staying with what we do best, we can focus on helping you improve your chemistry. Our hope is that this leads to an open scientific environment that is more comfortable and ultimately more productive for you.

– Scale-up experience from bench to full production scale.
– Customer supplied or CMI developed processes.

What we do not do…

CMI does not develop our own proprietary ligands, competitive catalyst technology, specialty organics, fuel cell monoliths, proprietary plating bath solutions, or active pharmaceutical ingredients. We don’t even want to… We believe that by keeping out of what you do we make it simpler for us to attract your business and easier for you to work with us.


Location and Facilities…

Our U.S.-based production plant is includes 3 buildings strategically located near the Maryland - Delaware border. Our location, just off of I-95 between Baltimore and Philadelphia, puts us in close proximity to several other major precious metals suppliers and many East Coast ports and airports.

CMI’s Elkton, MD Production facility is currently 25000 ft2 in three buildings on a 5 acre campus. In the spring of 2004, CMI initiated a renovation and expansion of approximately 10,000 ft2 expected to be completed by years-end. This renovation and expansion will allow for substantially increased capacity in key and emerging product areas.

The surrounding area is alive with major chemical manufacturing and Research and Development centers for major global corporations. Contacts from the resulting support industry, industrial associations, and personal networks developed over the last 33 years give us access to myriad chemical and analytical services from glass blowing to the most advanced analytical equipment available.

When do we do it…

When do you need it? Colonial Metals, Inc. prides itself on being there when our customers need us. We have built a reputation meeting requested delivery dates and through our ability to complete rapid-turn orders. Our willingness to help and system flexibility to accommodate urgent requests has proven to be an asset for many of our customers.

If we can’t meet your short lead requests, we’ll let you know up front…but rest assured, we will always try…

Why we do it…

We have maintained a focus on precious metals for over 33 years because we are good at it. We optimize our processes through experience and knowledge. With a very experienced and stable work force we are able to develop in-depth understanding of our processes and materials and cultivate the skills to develop new ones. Our research and development personnel have advanced degrees in a variety of disciplines and have been active in the precious metal industry for many years.

How we do it…

We are careful and attentive to your needs and our procedures. We like surprises even less than you do. To mitigate risk, we spend significant effort building skills and developing procedures to minimize our variables.

We are initiating a program to make it even easier to do business with CMI. With the launch of this new website Q1 2004, we are easier to find and contact. Included herein is a Quote Request Engine and full Product Database. We are also working to complete new marketing literature to better explain our areas of focus and expertise. Contact us and we will be happy to deliver additional product information and discuss your precious metal needs and concerns.

– Automotive, Chemical, Electronic, Electrochemical
– Industrial Coatings, Jewelry, Pigments
– Catalysts, Pharmaceuticals / Specialty Chemicals, Biotech
– Laboratory Supply, Academic and Government laboratories.

– Product quality and consistency
– Responsive and accommodating service

– CMI has demonstrated ability to add value beyond simple chemical supply

– Active air sensitive capabilities up to 300 gal
– Packaging from 0.1g to 500 gal totes.

CMI Departments:

Colonial Metals, Inc. offers a comprehensive range of over 600 precious metal chemical products. To maximize production efficiency, these products are fabricated in several different production areas focused on specific and similar chemistries. This localized focus, our experience, and stable work force leads to a significant depth of knowledge helping to promote technology transfer during process optimization, process know how, and manufacturability.

– Dissolution of ruthenium and the fabrication of RuO2.
– Large capacity manufacturer
– CMI is one of the world’s largest producers of ruthenium chemicals including:

• Ruthenium dioxide for electronics applications
• Ruthenium chloride and Ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate for catalysis and chemical processing.

– >400 precious metal chemical products
– Specialty inorganic and organometallic materials.
– Limited quantities and new product development

• 1 g to 10 kilogram lot quantities

– Organometallics Kilo-Lab

• Commissioned in 2001 to accommodate requests for value added products.
• Small scale and highly sensitive reactions and products
• Pre-formed homogeneous catalysts
• Capability to synthesize specialty and chiral ligands for use in complex preparation.

– Manufacture metal powders and alloys
– Chemical processing meets the specifications of the electronics industry.
– Products currently include: Palladium; Silver/Palladium; Platinum; Gold; some base metals on a custom basis.

– Large producer of silver salts
– Ag2SO4, Ag3PO4, AgCl, Ag2CO3, AgI
– Capacity available to dramatically increase production to meet demand.

– Dissolution of platinum, palladium, and gold
– Chloroplatinic acid, Chloroauric acid, Palladium chloride solution and salt, Palladium nitrate solution

– Ammonia-based Products:
– [M(NH3)4]X2 (M = Pt; Pd, X = Cl; OH; NO3); Oxalate solutions, Pd yellow salt;
– Internal Recovery/Refining

– Osmium tetroxide manufactured by the controlled oxidation of osmium powder.
– Hermetically sealed packaging for appropriate products up to 100g.
– Only manufacturer of OsO4 in the Western hemisphere.

– CMI maintains capabilities to provide specialized, proprietary, and sensitive packaging and chemical trans-fill services.
– Currently providing chemical and packaging services to Focused Ion Beam and Chemical Etch end user and OEM customers.



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