Recreational Firearms and Ammunition
thyssenkrupp Materials NA s a leader supplier of materials to the recreational firearms and ammunition industry.
Copper and Brass Sales provides the recreational firearms and ammunition industry with high-quality metal material in the shapes you need. We also offer value add services that reduce your process chain and brings down overall costs while maximizing the use of your materials.
Color Matching
Many firearms manufacturers struggle with matching both uppers and lowers due to the difference in the metal alloy used for each application. Most frequently the upper is made from a soft alloy (6000 series aluminum) while the lower is made from a hard alloy (7000 series aluminum).
Copper and Brass Sales has the ability to provide both the upper and the lower in one alloy so that the colors can match.
Ammunition
Our brass strip alloys are used for brass casings by hobbyist and boutique manufacturers of ammunition. This ammunition is most often used to create customized and specialty ammunition frequently used in competitive and target shooting.
Stainless steel is often used for custom rims and primers.
Near Net Shapes
Near Net Shapes
Manufacturing processes are made easy when we produce your near net shape (NNS). Within the recreational firearms and ammunition industry, NNS are most often used for barrels and slides for handguns or in uppers and lowers for handguns and rifles.
Water jet or machine routing used to achieve near net shapes helps improve cycle time, reduces scrap, and minimizes handling when used to produce end-use products such as handgun profiles.
Available in Aluminum and Stainless Steel.
Materials
Aluminum
7075 alloy – Upper and lower receivers, and railed handguards
6061 alloy – Floorplates, scope rings, handgaurds
Aluminum extrusions available in stock bars or in near net shapes (upper and lower receivers)
Stainless Steel
316 alloy – Trigger guards and floorplates
17-4 alloy – Barrels, bolts, and receivers
4140 and 4150 chrome moly vanadium (cmv)
416R alloy – Gun barrel quality
Copper Alloys
C21000 Gilding Brass – Bullet jackets and monolithic bullets
C22000 Commercial Bronze – Bullet jackets
C26000 Cartridge Brass – Coat rimfire bullets
Carbon Alloys
Chrome molybdenum vanadium steel (CrMoV) - Gun barrels
Value Added Services
thyssenkrupp Materials NA offers a wide variety of value added services that can help to reduce cycle time, reduce inventory investment, and total cost. We can also provide customized services designed specifically to meet your project or business needs.
Some of the most commonly used services include kitting, waterjet processing, routered shapes, custom extrusions and hot-rolled shapes, Kanban, JIT, forecasting models, warehouse and processing services, use of our global supply chain and ability to reduce your supply chain risk.
Brass and copper coil processing services
Sub-assembly component kitting
Returnable Containerization programs
Scrap buy-back programs
Waterjet cutting and routing
ITAR and C-TPAT compliant
Precision bar cutting services
Precision bar grinding services
Precision part fabrication services
Inventory management
Why thyssenkrupp Materials NA?
When you do business with thyssenkrupp Materials NA you can be confident in our 90+ years as an industry leader in metal services and the financial strength of the global enterprise that is thyssenkrupp. We support your defense inventory needs wherever you need them in the world utilizing the vast network of materials and services in our global supply chain. This network increases our capabilities by improving our cash flow and allowing for increased floor space via JIT shipments, Kanban programs, and kitting.
Through supply chain management, we leverage strategic global sourcing and strong supplier partnerships. Our mill-direct scrap program allows increased savings on drops. We also feature a variety of value-added services that deliver customized material to help reduce scrap, material handling, and cost with the ability to provide these services from multiple locations across North America. For example, we have equipment redundancy in South Bend, Atlanta, and Fresno to support our water jet capabilities.
thyssenkrupp Materials NA has teams of experts in different focus areas to help meet your needs. Whether that’s through our internal logistics teams, our product managers, industry experts, or other customer service minded staff, we are focused on working for you to improve service, lower your inventories, reduce work in process and free up your working capital. At thyssenkrupp Materials NA, we want to be your first choice for both defense materials and your supply chain needs.
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