Prince & Izant

What Prince & Izant does

Prince & Izant Company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, is a specialty manufacturer of brazing filler metals and high-purity precious metals serving the aerospace, automotive, medical, cutting tools, and HVAC/R industries. The company operates as a privately held corporation backed by IGP (Independent Capital Partners) since 2022, with a workforce in the 51-100 range. Its core manufacturing capabilities span vacuum casting, tilt-pour casting, wire drawing, heat treatment, preform production (coiling, lathe winding, 4-slide, stamping), laser cutting, gas atomization for powder production, binder formulation, paste mixing, and micro-machining of precious metal components with tolerances as tight as 0.0002 inches. The product portfolio includes 500+ SKUs across gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium, vacuum-grade, active, and trimetal brazing alloys, as well as platinum group metals (platinum, platinum-iridium, platinum-tungsten) and pure gold in purities from 99.90% to 99.999%, offered in forms including ultra-fine wire, rod, strip, rings, preforms, powders, pastes, and micro-machined components. Notable proprietary products include the patented ChannelFlux flux-integrated wire, Pre-Sintered Preforms (PSPs) with porosity under 1%, and CuPASTE copper brazing paste.

The company's commercial model is B2B enterprise sales with a quote-based pricing structure, supported by an in-house engineering team providing material selection, braze joint design, and application assistance. Distribution occurs through direct consultative sales with a 24-hour quote response commitment and through a dedicated e-commerce storefront (pimedicalstore.com) for standard medical products such as marker bands and ring electrodes. Revenue streams include hardware sales of brazing filler metals and precious metal components, professional services including engineering support and training (via the 2023 acquisition of Kay & Associates), and managed services such as the MarketLoc precious metal price-locking program and a precious metal recovery and refining service. The company holds AS9100 and ISO 9001 certifications for aerospace, ISO 13485 for medical devices, and approved-supplier status with Pratt & Whitney (LCS), GE (S-1000 and S-1005), and DDTC ITAR/DFAR for defense, providing significant regulatory barriers to entry.

Prince & Izant pursues a roll-up growth strategy under IGP ownership, having acquired Peltier Mfg., Inc. in October 2022 to add metal microstamping and Kay & Associates in August 2023 to add brazing seminars and consultation services. The company serves 18 major end markets across 420+ applications, with aerospace and medical device manufacturing representing the most demanding and highest-value verticals given the precision tolerance and certification requirements.

Name

Prince & Izant

Legal name

Prince & Izant Company

Website

https://www.princeizant.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1927

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Prince & Izant is a Cleveland-based, nearly century-old manufacturer of brazing filler metals and high-purity precious metals serving aerospace, automotive, medical, cutting tools, and HVAC/R industries, with patented products like ChannelFlux and Pre-Sintered Preforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Brazing Alloys and Precious Metals Manufacturing

NAICS

Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting and Refining (33141), Metal Crown, Closure, and Other Metal Stamping (except Automotive) (332119), Machine Shops (332710)

SIC

Primary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3330), Metal Forgings & Stampings (3460), Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products (3490)

akta.pro primary industry

Precious Metals Smelting & Refining (IMAKAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Metal Melting & Secondary Smelting/Refining (Recycled Feedstock Producers) (EUAIAJAJ)

Keywords

• Brazing filler metals
• Precious metal alloys
• Metal joining products
• High-purity precious metals
• Medical marker bands

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Brazing Filler Metal Products: Revenue from manufacturing and selling brazing filler metals including gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium alloys in various forms (wire, rod, strip, rings, preforms, powder, paste). Products sold to aerospace, automotive, medical, cutting tools, and HVAC/R industries for metal joining applications.
2. High-Purity Precious Metal Products: Revenue from selling platinum, platinum-iridium, platinum-tungsten, gold, palladium and silver in wire, rod, strip, marker bands, and micro-machined forms primarily for medical device manufacturing.
3. Precious Metal Recovery/Refining Services: Streamlined Precious Metal Recovery program allowing customers to send scrap containing precious metals for refining. Revenue generated from processing fees and metal recovery services.
4. Precious Metal Management Services: MarketLoc program that helps customers manage metal market fluctuations through price locking mechanisms. Generates revenue through service fees for metal market risk management.
5. Engineering and Technical Support Services: Application support, braze joint recommendations, braze cycle development, braze yield optimization, value engineering projects, and process auditing services.
6. Brazing Seminars and Training: Revenue from 3-day regional production brazing seminars providing intensive training in all forms and brazing methods for base materials ranging from aluminum to titanium to ceramics. Acquired Kay & Associates in August 2023.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Prince & Izant manufactures and globally supplies brazing filler metals (gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium alloys) and high-purity precious metals (platinum, platinum-iridium, pure gold) in multiple forms including wire, rod, strip, rings, preforms, powder, paste, flux-integrated products, and micro-machined components. The company also provides engineering services, custom manufacturing, precious metal management (MarketLoc), scrap recovery, brazing seminars, and technical consultation for aerospace, automotive, medical, cutting tools, and HVAC/R manufacturers.

Product overview

Prince & Izant is a worldwide manufacturer and global supplier of brazing filler metals and high-purity precious metals serving the aerospace, automotive, cutting tools, HVAC/R, and medical industries. The company's core product portfolio centers on brazing filler metals (gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium alloys, vacuum grade, active brazing alloys, and trimetals) and high-purity precious metals (platinum, platinum-iridium, platinum-tungsten, and pure gold). These materials are offered in various forms including wire, rod, strip, rings, preforms, powders, paste, flux integrated products (ChannelFlux), pre-sintered preforms (PSPs), laser cut parts, and micro-machined components. The company provides supporting services including engineering technical support, manufacturing capabilities, precious metal management (MarketLoc), precious metal recovery, brazing consultations, and brazing seminars (via acquired Kay & Associates). Products serve 18 major end markets with over 420+ applications. The company is ISO 13485 certified for medical applications and AS9100 certified for aerospace.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kay Brazing: Brazing consultation and seminar services acquired in August 2023
• MarketLoc
• Precious Metal Recovery
• ChannelFlux

Products and services

• Brazing Filler Metals Comprehensive portfolio of brazing filler metals including gold alloys, silver alloys, copper alloys, aluminum alloys, nickel alloys, vacuum grade alloys, active brazing alloys, palladium alloys, and trimetals alloys used for metal joining across aerospace, automotive, medical, cutting tools, and HVAC/R industries.
• High-Purity Precious Metals High-purity precious metals and platinum group metals including platinum alloys (Pt, Pt/Ir, Pt/W) and pure gold in purities from Au99.999 to Au99.90, supplied for medical, aerospace, and electronics applications.
• ChannelFlux Patented profiled wire product with flux integrated into a channel allowing flux and alloy application in a single step. Available in aluminum and silver filler metals with ring IDs as small as .160 inches, eliminating flux spitting with induction brazing processes.
• Pre-Sintered Preforms (PSPs) Sintered powder metallurgy products composed of uniform base metal powder and braze filler metal powder blend used to braze gas turbine engine components. Provide porosity less than 1% and densities ranging from 95-99+%.
• CuPASTE Copper brazing pastes suitable for joining most ferrous and non-ferrous metal components by furnace brazing. Available in high purity copper, copper-nickel, and copper-iron for wide gap brazing, and copper-copper oxide formulations, primarily serving automotive manufacturing.
• Platinum-Iridium Marker Bands and Ring Electrodes Radiopaque marker bands and ring electrodes manufactured to tight machining tolerances for catheters, pacemakers, and neuromodulation devices. Available in platinum, platinum-iridium, gold, nitinol, and palladium with OD/ID tolerances of +/- 0.0002 inches and wall tolerances as tight as 0.001 inches.
• Brazing Product Forms Various forms of brazing alloys including bulk brazing alloys, rings (butt-end, multi-turn, gap, segment, band, edgewound, square wire), preforms, powders and paste, flux integrated products (ChannelFlux, flux cored, flux coated), pre-sintered preforms (PSPs), laser cut parts, and trimetals.
• Precious Metal Forms Precision precious metal product forms including ultra fine wire (diameter from .00087" to .125"), marker bands and ring electrodes, micro machined components, PGM pins, precious metal strip (thickness from 0.0005" to 0.250"), and rod (diameter 0.025" - 0.200").
• Brazing Flux Flux products including PI White Flux, PI Black Flux, GWH-LB Flux, SD3 Flux, and L-127 Flux for silver, aluminum, nickel-silver, bronze, and soft-solder brazing applications.
• MarketLoc Precious Metal Management Market locking program that allows customers to lock-in prices for commodities to maintain consistent BOM costs and control profitability while mitigating supply risks from metal market fluctuations.
• Precious Metal Recovery Streamlined scrap recovery program that processes customer-specific precious metal containing scrap (obsolete inventory, floor sweeps, drips, braze components, rags, syringe tips/needles, wipes) and provides working capital to meet volume needs.
• Engineering Services Technical engineering support including brazing filler metal selection, braze joint recommendations, braze cycle development, braze yield optimization, medical precious metal selection, and mechanical testing (tensile, elongation, hardness, melt, bend tests).
• Manufacturing Services Contract manufacturing capabilities including vacuum casting, tilt-pour casting, wire drawing, heat treatment, wire shaping, ribbon/foil production, braze ring production (coiling, lathe winding, 4-slide), stamping, laser cutting, gas atomization, binder formulation, and paste mixing.
• Brazing Seminars 3-day intensive training seminars covering all forms and brazing methods for base materials ranging from aluminum to titanium to ceramics. Accessed through kaybrazing.com/seminars.
• Brazing Consultations Expert onsite consultation services for solving braze challenges, optimizing processes, reducing costs, and providing hands-on learning. Accessed through kaybrazing.com/consulting.

Quantifiable outcome

• Same-day shipping for standard products
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Peltier Mfg., Inc.coreOthers · 1 October 2022P&I and IGP completed an add-on acquisition of Peltier Mfg., Inc. (a metal microstamping provider) in October 2022. This acquisition aimed to expand P&I's metal stamping capabilities as part of the IGP-backed company's growth strategy.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Umicore: Global materials technology and recycling group with significant precious metals refining and fabricated products. Comparable in platinum-group metal processing, recycling/refining services, and industrial precious metal applications.
• Johnson Matthey: Global specialty chemicals and precious metals company with refining, catalysts, and precious metal products. Overlaps with P&I's precious metal refining/recovery and platinum-group metal offerings, though at vastly larger scale.
• Heraeus Precious Metals: Global precious metals and technology group with refining, recycling, and fabricated precious metal products. Directly comparable in platinum-iridium marker bands, gold alloys, and medical/aerospace precious metal components.
• Morgan Advanced Materials: Global specialty materials company producing carbon, ceramic, and metallic components. Overlaps with P&I in high-temperature brazed assemblies for aerospace and industrial applications, though broader in materials.
• Materion Corporation: Large specialty alloys and precious metals producer serving aerospace, medical, and electronics with beryllium, precious metals, and advanced materials. Broader portfolio and significantly larger scale than P&I but overlapping in precious metals for medical and aerospace.

Direct peers

• Aimtek (Weldtec): Specialty brazing alloys and welding consumables supplier serving aerospace, industrial, and defense markets. Direct competitor with similar alloy portfolio, aerospace certifications, and engineered preform/rings capabilities.
• Wall Colmonoy: Manufacturer of brazing alloys, hard-facing alloys, and wear-resistant alloys serving aerospace, automotive, and industrial markets. Directly comparable as a specialty brazing alloy producer with overlapping alloy portfolios and similar aerospace/industrial customer base.
• Allied Metal Company: Specialty alloy producer focused on brazing solders and non-ferrous alloys. Direct competitor in copper, silver, and brass brazing alloys serving HVAC, plumbing, and industrial customers similar to P&I's HVAC/R segment.
• Lucas-Milhaupt: Direct competitor in brazing and soldering alloys, offering similar filler metals, fluxes, and preforms for HVAC, automotive, and industrial joining applications. Highly comparable product portfolio and customer overlap with P&I.

Emerging players

• Indium Corporation: Specialty materials manufacturer focused on indium, gold, and tin alloys for electronics and semiconductors. Adjacent competitor in specialty solders and brazing materials for emerging electronics applications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/princeizant

Compliance11 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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