Ever wonder why the Earth gets one day, April 22nd, while soup gets National Soup Month every January? We like soup as much as anyone but it doesn’t seem right.

People say the Gold Upsilon Sputtering Target from DHF Technical Products looks like a lot of things: A picture frame. A box. A rectangle. But if you look closely, you can also see part of a horseshoe. Which makes sense because the Upsilon Target has been essential in helping the workhorse of sputtering systems from MRC run beautifully for decades.

Healthy levels of working capital and free cash flow are critical to growing businesses. But gold, silver, platinum and palladium sputtering targets are more capital intensive than common targets made from metals like copper or tin. Here are four strategies your precious metal sputtering target manufacturer can employ to help your company preserve working capital.

An experienced precious metal sputtering target manufacturer will be well versed in the challenges that are specific to precious metal sputter targets including managing working capital and cash flow, innovative target designs, spent target recycling and ISO 9001 certification. Before making a decision to hire a precious metal sputtering target manufacturer, several questions should be answered to your satisfaction.

Low-E Glass (aka Low-Emissivity Glass) was invented to allow buildings to reflect the sun’s ultraviolet and infrared light to keep the hot sun outside while allowing beautiful, cool natural light inside. One of the secret ingredients in Low-E glass is a thin film of silver from a sputtering target.

Precious metal sputtering targets and precious metals in general will be essential in a growing number of clean energy applications supported by the Inflation Reduction Act. One of the metals that will be in high demand for the expansion of clean energy infrastructure is silver.

The CHIPS and Science Act provides more than $52 billion over five years to increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The funds will go toward adding new facilities or expanding current manufacturing plants that make semiconductors or equipment for chipmaking. It’s part of a $280 billion investment to make United States companies and technology more competitive in the future.

When people ask what we do for a living, the short answer is, “We make precious metal sputtering targets.” But what we do every day in our factory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico has far-reaching effects on people around the world. Our custom designed and manufactured gold, silver platinum and palladium targets are helping create a better world. The first article in our series discusses the impact sputtering targets are having in the fight against diabetes.

We don’t design and manufacture one-size-fits-all precious metal sputtering targets for the masses. We create custom targets to work more efficiently with your specific coater, manufacturing processes and budget, no matter what size, shape or precious metal you need.

Predicting the future is a fool’s errand. Especially when it comes to precious metal prices. When it comes to gold, silver, platinum and palladium sputtering targets, we help minimize risk with a relentless focus on maximizing efficiencies in all areas including sputter target design, manufacturing, adhesion to substrate and spent target recycling.

It’s the end of an era at The Society of Vacuum Coaters. After two years as President of SVC, our VP of Sales, Ed Wegener, will be handing over the reins to new leadership. As president from 2020-2022, Ed helped lead The SVC through its most challenging period.

What do the electronics, automotive, aerospace, medical and glass industries have in common? A thin film from a gold sputtering target is at the heart of their innovative new products helping society meet our biggest challenges.

As in past years, the DHF Technical Products booth will be at the entrance to SVC during the exhibit on May 3rd and 4th. Which means you can talk to our precious metal sputtering target experts and check out our surprise giveaways, no heat shield required.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has been confined to a small region of Europe, but its effects are being seen around the world, including in the precious metal markets.

When we launched our new website this January, we had a gut feeling about which pages would be popular. But if you told us six months ago one of our most popular web pages would be a sputtering target weight calculator, that would not compute.

The biggest names in trade shows, award shows and events have all gone virtual during the pandemic. Now the Society of Vacuum Coaters has created the most affordable, informative and easy-to-attend SVC TechCon ever. SVC Virtual TechCon 2021 is coming May 3-7 to a laptop, mobile or desktop near you.

There’s more to spent target recycling than spent target recycling. At DHF Technical Products, we look at every stage of the life cycle of your precious metal target, from design and manufacturing to spent target reclaim and refining, as an opportunity to increase the efficiency of your target and lower your cost of ownership.

The surging price of palladium has fueled a black market in stolen catalytic converters which thieves saw off from under cars in minutes and sell for hundreds of dollars each. But it was all set in motion by a crackdown on vehicle pollution in China.

The pandemic brought us the virtual office, virtual school, virtual concerts, virtual sporting events and virtual wine tastings. The Society of Vacuum Coaters is adding another virtual event to the list: SVC TechCon 2021.

The Reddit group “WallStreetBets” that pushed up the price of GameStop stock may have their eye on a new target: silver.