About Franklin Advanced Materials:

Franklin Advanced Materials develops and manufactures specially engineered materials for wide range of industrial markets, including: photovoltaic solar cells, solid oxide fuel cells, hybrid microelectronics, multilayer microelectronics, electronic components, sensors, and other thick-film interconnect or metallization applications. We offer our products to customers around the world, providing you with custom materials development, component fabrication, and state-of-the-art testing services. In addition to industrial customers, we also offer custom materials and services to companies, universities, and labs that are engaged in research and development activities.

All of our work is done at our headquarters and recently-expanded manufacturing facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles west of Philadelphia. We have over 4,800 square feet of development labs which include PV Cell processing equipment capable of fully processing wafers into completed cells and test equipment that can fully characterize all aspects of cell performance and topology. Our labs also include a 40 foot tape caster, mixers, mills, and material characterization equipment to produce a broad range of fuel cell materials. Franklin has over 12,000 square feet of dedicated manufacturing space to meet the large scale production demands of our PV Cell and fuel cell customers.

Our roots began with our unique solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology that operates directly on such readily-available current fuels as diesel and gasoline, and also on future fuels like bio-fuel and hydrogen. Through years of technology and product development, our scientists and engineers have gained a broad knowledge base in developing pastes, tapes, and fired-ceramic components in a rapid, cost effective, and scalable manner. This knowledge and experience enable Franklin Advanced Materials to provide off-the-shelf solutions and custom specific-designed products to meet our customers’ needs.

In late 2009, Franklin began to develop a series of screen printable paste products used in the fabrication of solar cells, specifically front and back side silver pastes, and backside aluminum pastes. By January of 2010 we had assembled a thick film development team with over 75 years of experience in developing these types of screen printable pastes. In June of 2010, Franklin launched the first series of these products known as SunAG, LunAG, and LunAL.

Franklin’s team of scientists, engineers, and technicians utilize materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering to conceive, develop and commercialize unique products that enable cost-effective, reliable material solutions for a broad range of industrial markets. Our team includes manufacturing and process engineers who have the experience and knowledge to develop production processes to meet both low- and high-volume requirements.

Franklin recognizes that many of our customers are developing new technologies that are highly proprietary and require the highest degree of trust and ethics to enable close collaboration. Franklin Advanced Materials prides itself on the way we treat each of our customer’s intellectual property and disclosures, to assure that each customer's information is firewalled from any other customer – and is handled with the strictest confidence. We have a very close relationship with our customers and thrive on customizing our products for specific needs and requirements.

We invite you to browse our current product offerings, view the product data sheets, and order trial quantities online. Please contact us if you do not see a product that meets your exact needs and we can work with you to develop a product that meets your specific requirements. If you require larger quantity pricing, please contact us so that we can provide you pricing based on your specific needs.