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Custom Services and R&D Expertise in Welding and Brazing

Selectarc is not just the only French manufacturer of filler metals for welding and brazing. Our highly qualified R&D team also offers several services, such as chemical and mechanical analyses, custom work, and the development of specific products according to your specifications. Contact us to benefit from our technical support.

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Our laboratory is equipped to perform chemical and mechanical analyses:

  • CCPU 3.1 chemical and mechanical certificates / CCPU 3.2 chemical and mechanical (according to EN 10204)
  • RCC-M approved products
  • Chemical analyses on wires
  • Hardness tests: Brinell, Vickers, and Rockwell
  • Hot and cold tensile tests on wires
  • Bending tests
  • Impact bending tests (resilience test)
  • Macrographs and micrographs
  • Custom tests according to your specifications
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Selectarc puts all its know-how at your disposal to meet your most demanding requirements. We understand that some projects require special attention and specific skills. That’s why we offer a range of custom contract services under quality control, designed to meet the highest standards of our clients:

  • Drawing: In various diameters for aluminum, stainless steels, nickel, copper, and cobalt alloys
  • Straightening and cutting: Precision in all grades for diameters from 6 to 0.2mm
  • Winding: Ability to wind various alloys in a multitude of diameters, meeting specific needs with a wide range of spools
  • Processing, cleaning, chemical and mechanical stripping: Methods ensuring optimal purity of alloys, an essential criterion especially for the nuclear and aerospace sectors
  • Shaping, marking, packaging, heat treatment: Complementary services offering customization and adjustment to specific specifications
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Our expertise allows us to develop custom filler metal formulations for specific applications, providing the required operational and mechanical performance. These developments contribute to advancing the state of the art in the industry.

Our commitment is to provide tailored solutions, adapted to each specific request, each particular application with always the highest level of quality requirements.

We offer a wide range of customization options for our welding and brazing filler metals, including:

  • Product formulation to meet specific requirements through our R&D laboratory
  • Customization of dimensions such as diameter, length, and shape of the products
  • Customization of color of the coating and alloy
  • The option to choose the quantity, size, and type of packaging
  • Packaging, with particular attention to type, shape, color, as well as options for vacuum or argon packaging
  • Unique identification of products through marking, stamping, and flagging options, not to mention custom labeling
  • And the execution of custom tests, compliant with your specifications
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Welding and Brazing Expertise

Do you need technical advice, recommendations for welding or brazing, or suitable documentation? Our team of experts is here to assist you and provide tailored solutions that meet your specific needs.

Technical Support & Process Qualification

We assist you with:

  • Choosing filler metals for optimal performance
  • Qualification of welding (QMOS) and brazing (QMOB) procedures
  • Optimizing your welding and brazing processes for better quality and durability of assemblies.

Metallurgical Expertise & Quality Control

Thanks to our metallurgical analysis laboratory, we perform:

  • Chemical analyses of the deposited metal
  • Mechanical tests (tensile, resilience, bending)
  • Macro and micrographic inspections to assess the quality of welds and brazing

Our solutions are tailored to the most demanding sectors, such as aerospace and aeronautics, nuclear, and chemistry and petrochemistry.

Framatome acquires a stake in Selectarc

June 11, 2025 – Framatome announces the acquisition of a 40% stake in Selectarc, alongside its majority stakeholder, Viellard Migeon & Compagnie.

This partnership will secure the supply of strategic filler metals, essential in the manufacturing of components of the primary circuit of the French nuclear reactors.