Precious Metal Compounds

W. C. Heraeus’ Business Unit Chemical Products manufactures organometallic compounds and their precursors on a commercial scale. Flexible production technologies enable the Business Unit to synthesize an extensive number of precious metal compounds as well as tailor-made molecules and complexes.

Moreover, Chemical Products also develops and manufactures compounds in close co-operation with its customers. Confidentiality agreements are a matter of course.

Besides product expertise, Chemical Products offers concepts for procuring precious metals in close collaboration with Heraeus' own metal trading company.

Full cycle operations for the recovery of precious metals from various materials are an integral part of W. C. Heraeus’ daily business.

Chemical Products already supplies ruthenium complexes for dye-sensitized cells (“Solar Dyes”) of the thirdgeneration solar technology.