Custom designed pins and components for hermetic seals used in a variety of mission-critical applications.

Examples of custom components shown here are used in OEM assemblies such as vacuum tubes, electric discharge tubes, LED, incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs, glass encapsulated semiconductor diodes, reed switches, telecommunication and ceramic packages of electronic components.

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With Sussex Wire's cold-headed manufacturing savvy expertise in glass seal hermetic pins, you can increase your production speed and improve your final product's reliability, particularly for mission-critical applications such as defense and aerospace. Sussex has everything in-house: a very large inventory of glass to metal seal materials including copper core alloys; cold-forming modeling software; die production; an ISO-9001-2008 certified quality program; and many other post cold forming and finishing operations.

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Most importantly, Sussex has an engineering staff with experience in hermetic seal pins as a specialty, not just as a contract manufacturer. As a partner, with the ability to our team can work with your engineers and suggest design improvements for pins in feedthroughs or connectors. For instance, Sussex can control the diameter of the copper in 446 copper core wire. This level of experience is not commonly found and is one of the primary reasons Sussex works with companies around the globe, not just with our North America customers.

Examples of Sussex Wire Glass-to-Metal Seal projects completed