Superconductive Components, Inc. (SCCI)
Interview with: Dan Rooney, President and CEO
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Superconductive Components, Inc.,
originally founded to do research, is moving into the manufacturing arena with a new
facility in Columbus, Ohio for the company's administrative and manufacturing operations
Technology
Superconductors
(SCCI-OTC)
Superconductive Components, Inc.
Dan Rooney
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Interview conducted by:
Lynn Fosse
Senior Editor
CEOCFOinterviews.com
September 2003
CEO Analysis:
Superconductive Components, Inc. (SCCI-OTC) operates through SCI Engineered Materials and
manufactures advanced ceramics such as superconductors, ferroelectric and optical
materials for use in wire, cable, batteries, wireless and fiber optics systems. The
company also provides materials for thin film applications used in photovoltaics,
electronic switches, hardness and decorative coatings. SCI uses state-of-the-art
manufacturing techniques to meet the most demanding thin film requirements. The complete
in-house capabilities range from the consolidation of materials through vacuum hot
pressing and sintering, to vacuum melting of metals and alloys, to grinding and machining,
to bonding. Mr. Dan Rooney, President and CEO of
Superconductive Components, Inc. talks about their move to a new facility. “Our new facility is a little larger, but its real benefit is that we
can set up manufacturing lines as opposed to where we currently are, which is a number of
very small rooms that do not lend themselves toward manufacturing but were geared more
toward research. The company was founded to do research on superconducting materials, and
there has been a lot of research done over the years. We continue to do some and we will
continue to do research in the future, but we are more into the manufacturing end of
things now.” “Last year we were cash flow neutral for the year,
explains Mr. Rooney, discussing the financial position of
Supercodctive. “This year, we have not been doing as well, so
the first two quarters of this year have been rough. That is partly why we brought in the
marketing consultant. We are already seeing some benefit from that, and orders are coming
in. The person we brought in has 20 years experience in the physical vapor deposition
industry, so he knows a lot of customers and brings credibility to the company very
quickly. It is all a matter of getting more business, larger orders from current customers
and reaching new people.” Responding to our query about new uses for their
products, Mr. Rooney states, “There
is constant innovation going on in the area of photonics. The companies are looking
for more ways to focus light, split the wave-lengths, and uses different color portions of
the light waves. There is an array of things constantly occurring in that area. We often
are requested by companies to produce a new type of material, and we will either do that
under contract or on a best effort basis with a company, to produce something
unique.”
According to Mr. Rooney,
“What potential investors may not know is that the company has
realigned itself toward manufacturing. We believe that Lithium the Thin Film battery area
is an area that is going to take off rapidly in the next year to eighteen months, so
applications like active RFID tags would be in potential use because these batteries are
very small and discreet. Power supplies, battery on a chip, would be another application.
With only the required chips sets up and running, you would be able to manage your energy
needs by turning chips on and off as needed. Smart cards are another area where these
batteries have real potential. From the heels of that, we believe that superconducting
materials are finally beginning to take hold and will become a real business within the
next three to five months.” SCI maintains an in-house powder
manufacturing facility to accommodate advanced ceramic and metal oxide materials. Their
technical staff employs several proprietary wet and dry chemistries, reactive processing,
and other techniques in order to tailor powders for optimal target performance. SCI
manufactures Superconducting and Non-Superconducting Ceramic targets for use in Sputtering
and Laser Ablation systems. They have manufactured targets up to 12" diameter and
typically .125" or .25" thick, however, they are happy to review custom shapes
and compositions and comment on the possibility of manufacturing. SCI also offers large
domain YBCO Levitators™ manufactured using melt processing techniques. Machining
techniques have been developed that enable the Levitators™ to be machined to desired
shapes without dramatically deteriorating their properties. SCI Engineered Materials is
pleased to offer a wide range of single crystal substrates for making high quality thin
films. These substrates have been sold to customers all over the globe and have gained SCI
a reputation for fine quality. SCI also offers a line of educational products for both
student and mentor. Exploring the phenomena of Superconductivity is made easy using its
family of kits demonstrating both the Meissner and Flux Trapping effects.
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