Description
Timminco Limited, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells silicon metal and solar grade silicon products for electronics, chemical, aluminum, and solar industries. It offers chemical grade silicon metal for use in the application of various consumer products, such as sealants, rubber, fluids, lubricants, textiles, and cosmetics; electronics grade silicon metal for use in electronics, including computer chip wafers, semiconductors, solar cells, and fiber optic cables, as well as in pharmaceutical substrates and tires; and aluminum grade silicon metal for use as an alloying agent in aluminum primarily used for automobile components. The company also provides other silicon metal products comprising silica fumes used as an ingredient in cement for marine structures or bridge foundations, and as a thermal insulator; and dross and silicon-containing slags used in iron foundries/steel industries. In addition, it offers a patented metallurgical-based process to purify silicon metal into solar grade silicon for the manufacture of wafers and cells for solar energy systems. Timminco Limited was founded in 1934 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
