Clinton D. Lynch, the founder of Lynch Metals, was President of a distributor in the New York Metropolitan area that sold brazing sheet that was only supplied by Alcoa. In 1985, Alcoa decided to discontinue the production of #21 and #22 brazing sheet utilized in dip brazing applications, which was the main product they sold. Since domestic mills would not sell brazing sheet to distributors, Lynch searched for an alternate source overseas. He found Korrugal Aluminum (known as Granges today) located in Finspong, Sweden. Lynch partnered with Korrugal and became their first customer in the United States.
Realizing there was a need for brazing sheet to be available in less than mill minimum quantities, Lynch opened up Lynch Metals in October of 1991, with the desire to fill that need. Domestic producing mills of clad aluminum would not recognize other metal distributors since the application of the product is very technical. The brazing process is referred to as a “Black Art” since no two companies braze the same exact way. The mills believed a distributor, unless they specialized in the process and product, would misrepresent their product in certain sophisticated and technical applications.
The company began to add more brazing sheet products to its inventory. While the original focus was on the aerospace market, Lynch ventured into the automotive and industrial markets. As its volume and product offerings grew, other mills such as Alumax, Alcoa, and Reycan, agreed to sell their product through Lynch. While these domestic mills offered a much shorter lead time than Granges, they also broadened Lynch’s product availability. In the late 1990’s AMAG joined Granges to become the second overseas supplier to recognize Lynch as their exclusive distributor of clad aluminum product in North America.
Over the 24 years of its existence, Lynch has invested heavily in its process equipment. Today it’s the only distributor that has purchased a Kampf high speed slitter, which can run aluminum fin stock as light as .001” at a speed of 1600 feet per minute. With locations in Union, NJ and Anaheim, CA, Lynch operates two Ruesch slitters, three Goebel slitters, and three cut-to-length lines.
Today, Lynch Metals is the premier stocking distributor of aluminum brazing sheet in North America. Their extensive inventory, specialized processing equipment, unique mill relationships, and knowledgeable sales associates combine to make them the best choice to supply your brazing sheet needs.
From the outset, Lynch focused on an additional niche product; custom aluminum extrusions. Our experienced Custom Service Representatives will assist you in the design stage of your custom shape. Our expertise in this market will allow us to source your specific shape with the appropriate mill that is best suited to produce it.
We will provide current inventory reports while managing your inventory levels on our floor to ensure a consistent flow of material in all market conditions. Additional fabrication, such as miter cutting, hole punching, deburring, secondary machining, and assembly are available to reduce your in-house costs. Also, shapes can be powder coated, wet painted, or anodized.
Under the Metals USA name, we have become one of the largest distributors of painted and anodized sheet in North America. We stock 38 different color combinations with a focus on the sign and roofing markets. We’ve recently purchased a state-of-the-art blanking line that can produce rounded corners and various diameter holes. Our seven in-house slitters provide excellent flexibility in terms of gauge and width capabilities. Our channel letter coil is individually boxed to protect it during transit.
Lynch will continue to invest in its people, equipment, and inventory to provide our customers superior quality and service. Our outstanding organic growth over the past 24 years is a testament to our loyal customers and sincere desire to excel.
Capabilities
As a full service provider of aluminum brazing materials, we also offer a number of processing services that make us a single source solution for customers in a broad range of industries. This includes slitting & rewinding, cutting to length, shearing, precision saw cutting, and blanking. These capabilities are designed to deliver aluminum brazing sheet and coils in the form most convenient for your operations, ready to go into production without further processing. We can help you reduce inventory costs by providing Just-in-Time deliveries of precision slit coils, cut-to-length sheets, or production-ready blanks in any quantity you desire. With two well-located stocking and processing centers, one in Union, New Jersey and the other in Anaheim, California, we have easy access to transport options that allow us to receive and ship goods to and from any domestic, North American, or international location.
With processing centers that house some of the most precise slitting and cutting equipment available today, we offer complete flexibility for processing material and our systems are set up to provide close tolerance products at industry-leading yield rates. Our high-speed slitting equipment produces tight, uniform coils at production rates up to 1,600 ft. per minute, while our precision saw cutters have the capacity to make narrow-kerf cuts in materials up to 8” thickness. We can produce blanks with dimensions of 6” x 12” up to 24” x 48” with square-cut or radius corners as well as shear materials to exact size pieces ready for production.
We are one of the largest and most versatile stocking distributors in the world and leverage our purchasing power to achieve significant cost advantages. By purchasing and stocking coils in widths of up to 60”, we have the resources to process material within two to five working days. We also welcome toll slitting and cut to length opportunities while processing them within the same narrow timeline.
More information on the full extent of our slitting, cut-to-length, shearing, saw cutting, and blank capacities. If you would like more information about our services or a quote on your next order, please contact us directly.