Introduction:
Handy & Harman Ltd. manufactures and sells engineered niche industrial products in the United States and internationally. It operates through Joining Materials, Tubing, Building Materials, Performance Materials, and Kasco Blades and Route Repair Services segments. The Joining Materials segment fabricates precious metals and their alloys into brazing alloys, including gold, silver, palladium, copper, nickel, aluminum, and tin. The Tubing segment provides seamless stainless steel tubing coils for petrochemical infrastructure and shipbuilding markets; small diameter coil tubing to the aerospace, defense, and semiconductor fabrication markets; and welded carbon steel tubing products in coiled and straight lengths for transportation, appliance and heating, and oil and gas industries. The Building Materials segment offers fasteners and fastening systems for the commercial low slope roofing industry; and engineered specialty fasteners for the building products industry. The Performance Materials segment manufactures sheet and mechanically formed glass and aramid materials for specialty applications. The Kasco Blades and Route Repair Services segment provides meat-room blade products, repair services, and resale products for the meat and deli departments of supermarkets, restaurants, and meat and fish processing plants, as well as for distributors of electrical saws and cutting equipment; and wood cutting blade products for the pallet manufacturing, pallet recycler, and portable saw mill industries. The company sells its products and services through direct sales forces, distributors, and manufacturers representatives to the construction, electrical, electronics, transportation, utility, medical, oil and gas exploration, aerospace and defense, and food industries. The company was founded in 1852 and is based in White Plains, New York. Handy & Harman Ltd. is a subsidiary of Steel Partners Holdings L.P.