Engineered Materials Solutions, headquartered in Attleboro, MA (USA) with production sites in Hamburg, PA (USA) and Baoying (China) traces its origins back to 1916. We have been manufacturing Clad Materials since our founding company, General Plate Company, was established 100 years ago.

Today we are experts in metallurgically bonding dissimilar metals. At EMS, we produce a variety of “laminated” materials that can offer distinctive properties, where one material alone could not. As part of our product portfolio, EMS produces Metallic Catalyst Substrates.

Clad metals have been used to make metal catalytic converter substrate for more than 15 years, and the cold roll bonding process that made this possible was developed by EMS.

These materials were designed to meet all technical requirements of exhaust after-treatment devices including oxidation resistance, shape stability, formability, and compatibility with typical substrate

processing technologies, such as brazing and wash coating.

EMS DuraFoil and DielselFoil are a great alternative to FeCrAlloy materials in catalytic converter applications. They are high temperature oxidation and creep resistant alloys and are manufactured using our patented cold bonding/ diffusion annealing process. Their aluminum rich surface and strength make them very receptive to wash coating and well suited to very large stationary applications or engine applications where durability is essential.