Reduce, Reuse, Reinvest. How to Unlock the Value in Your Spent Targets.

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 sputter 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. With prices for metals like gold and palladium hovering around $1,700 and $2,300 per ounce respectively, the savings are often substantial.

This holistic view of maximizing value from beginning to end is unique to the precious metal sputtering target industry and can be described in three simple words: Reduce, Reuse, Reinvest.

Reduce. At DHF Technical Products, each sputtering target is designed and manufactured to help make the most of every ounce of gold, silver, platinum and palladium. The result? Innovative, custom targets created to reduce the amount of precious metal in each target while putting more metal on the substrate. Less metal in the design and manufacturing phase means less working capital tied up in targets and more available to grow your business.

Lowering the cost of target ownership is about looking for opportunities to add value at every stage of the sputtering target life cycle.

Reuse. Spent targets don’t belong on the sidelines. In the precious metal business, every ounce counts. Getting your spent target refined, credited and recycled into a new target in record time helps keep your coater, your plant and your business running smoothly.

Reinvest. DHF Technical Products offers a fast, accurate, transparent accounting of your spent targets. Being extra vigilant in keeping time commitments helps you reduce exposure to fluctuations in metal prices. This is crucial when the metal markets are volatile, as they have been recently.

Lowering the cost of target ownership is about looking for opportunities to add value at every stage of your gold, silver, platinum and palladium sputtering target life cycle. If you’re interested in finding ways to maximize your target investment from beginning to end, it’s time to talk to the precious metal sputtering target experts at tech@dhfco.com. See, we even reduced our contact info to one email for efficiency.