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Myriam Recuerda: We have an extremely varied clientele, mainly founders, manufacturers, artisan jewelers and manufacturers. Our mission is to meet all their expectations and technical requests in order to enable them to achieve their quantitative and qualitative objectives. This ranges from standard orders, in primers or semi-finished products, to specific requests, in connection with our factory and the management of metals by weight. We ensure rigorous monitoring from receipt of waste until treatment. Our know-how is recognized in the trading of precious metals on behalf of our clients. Thanks to our agencies spread over the whole territory and to our factory, we offer a complete service without intermediary.
M. Recuerda: Today, consumers express a growing need to buy French and want reassurance about the origin of their purchases. Our professional customers are therefore looking for products with guaranteed traceability. As all of our teams are based in France, SAAMP is the only French founder, refiner and preparer to offer the Origine France Garantie certification.
The consumer can be sure that our precious metals meet all the criteria for traceability, quality and ethics. As a reminder, our plant in Limonest is RJC-COC for gold and the platinoids of Palladium, Platinum and Rhodium. Added to our Origine France Garantie certification, we have a unique positioning and offer on the market.
M. Recuerda: We supply 80% of the founders in Place de Paris with alloy shot for precision casting. This shot is available in all colors, gold, silver, platinum, palladium grades, and in standard or surtitled 751. This shot is labeled RJCCOC and Origine France Garantie. It is always accompanied by a certificate of conformity on title and recycling France. Among our other flagship products, our Limonest factory also manufactures semi-finished products (plate, wire, welding, tube) with the same certifications.
Our freshly updated catalog contains our most requested standard productions. We are also able to manufacture, as quickly as possible, specific products, on request, according to the specifications of our customers. In addition, I would add, the service of our laboratory in Limon is accredited by customs. Its capabilities allow us to provide the results of OCA requests within 24 hours. We also have in our ranks a legal expert with the Lyon Court of Appeal.
M. Recuerda: Yes, it's all in the interest of manufacturing in France. Deliveries are fast, the circuit is short and low in pollution. Our customers can also go to one of our metropolitan agencies in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Nice, to stock up or drop off.
More information: Myriam Recuerda- Supply manager of the semi-finished and finished products division
+33 (0) 1 44 61 80 19
myriam.recuerda@saamp.com
You knew the appellations of controlled origin for champagne or wine … Today, SAAMP is the only French company able to display the Guaranteed France Origin on the precious metals market. All SAAMP semi-finished products are 100% certified Origine France Garantie.
What does this certification consist of? What are the advantages for the customer?
Interview with Sébastien Canesson, Sales Manager France and Director of the SAAMP Paris Agency.
SÉBASTIEN CANESSON: This certification was created in June 2010 following the publication of the Yves Légo report, then deputy for Seine et Marne, devoted to the France brand.
It is the result of a collective approach by actors who wish to work together to promote "production in France". Through this certification, we promote industrial and artisanal know-how.
Two obligations to obtain it:
S. CANESSON: An audit is carried out by an independent certification body. This confers an indisputable characteristic! The Made in France is only a statement affixed to products manufactured at one point in the manufacturing process. We speak of French origin, SAAMP supplies recovered, refined and produced gold on the national market.
S. CANESSON: The promotion of French know-how. We provide the consumer with traceability information on a luxury product entirely of French origin. Three strategic axes have been defined: Refining, Analysis, Finishing. It is total control of the life cycle of precious metals.
S. CANESSON: Our positioning is obvious. We set ourselves apart from all our competitors by providing this guarantee. SAAMP is the only founder, refiner, preparer who informs and disseminates French know-how. It must be highlighted!
100% of our semi-finished products are certified Origine France Garantie: ingots, fine gold pellets (gold, silver and platinum alloys for lost wax casting), tubes, planes, wires, welds.
Many craftsmen and manufacturers support us in this process. We are sure that the big French luxury brands will join. French production is still there … Consumers can be sure that precious metals can meet all criteria of traceability, quality and ethics in the internal market. As a reminder, SAAMP is also RJC COC. Today, there is no traceability on the silver, apart from this certification which gives an indication of provenance and sets us apart from the competition.
S. CANESSON: Have you been to the Origin France Garantie site? All sectors of activity are concerned. Many companies from all sectors (TEFAL, LES SAVONS DE MARSEILLE MARIUS FABRE, INVICTA, etc.) have applied for and obtained the Origine France Garantie certification.
Why should precious metals be the only ones that cannot meet this expectation?
The consumer feels a strong need to buy French, he wants to be reassured about the origin of the product. We value ethical, environmental work on gold and other precious metals. We supply ourselves on the French market, we recycle and produce.
S. CANESSON: It makes sense. SAAMP is structurally built around the recycling, refining and production of semi-finished products of precious metals, in France. It’s our identity. This certification is more recognition of our development strategy on the national market unlike the competition.
It is only at SAAMP that you will find semi-finished products (in gold, silver and platinum) certified Origine France Garantie.
We're not going to hide our pride …
Accreditations and Certifications :
RJC-COC N°0173
RJC N°1128
OFG AFNOR Cert. 83234
Scope available on www.originefrancegarantie.fr
ISO 9001 : 2015 N°2010/38301.3
ISO 14001 : 2015 N°2013/57085.4
ISO 17025 : laboratoire accrédité COFRAC N°1-6407,
portée disponible sur www.cofrac.fr
More information :
Tel. +33 (0) 1 44 61 80 32
Saamp.com – contact@saamp.com
Paris – Lyon – Marseille – Nice – Varsovie – Cayenne
Before being transformed into a finished product, the gold treated by SAAMP underwent a complex, ethical, traceable and responsible industrial process.
The SAAMP invites you to discover it here by opening its laboratory. All stages of the gold processing work are thus traced in all their reality and transparency.
SAAMP: The majority of the gold we sell is "recycled", it has a second life because it comes from old jewelry, monetary items, production waste from the jewelry sector, industry or industry. 'computer science. The proportion of recycled industrial gold has doubled in 10 years. Moving towards "recycled" gold means adopting a responsible attitude by helping to reduce emissions that are harmful to the planet. This clean process makes it possible to subscribe to an environmentally responsible approach, precious metals are infinitely recyclable without degrading their quality. However, we are also seeing more and more mining operations moving towards an ecological approach. These operations comply with very strict specifications that respect the environment. They are not very numerous today but it is intensifying.
SAAMP: Gold goes through several stages of transformation before the finished jewel is found in display cases:
SAAMP: We first make sure of the origin of the metals that are entrusted to us or that we buy. For the most part, the origin of metals is industrial. This is manufacturing scrap that must be recycled. For the rest, we check compliance with regulations on the part of the companies from which we buy materials. For example, we make sure that our recovery customers follow all the traceability obligations of their purchases and good financial practices. When the materials arrive at our premises, they are tracked by a batch number assigned to them and which follows them until they are grouped together to be refined.
The pure precious metals obtained are then packaged and assigned a number which will make it possible to know the day and time when they were refined and therefore to know the origin of the original materials. When the pure metals are then put together to form alloys, the same process is put in place. We assign them a cast number which is linked to the refining numbers of the starting metals. This cast number will follow the alloy at each stage of manufacture. Thus we know how to trace the entire course of a piece of wire or solder and know the origin of the metals that compose it. Obviously, at each step, samples are taken and analyzed to check the titration and the homogeneity of the material.
Our certifications show that our traceability system is correct and compliant.
Each year, we pass several audits which validate our practices concerning the traceability of our metals.
Saamp: The different materials that reach us are first assembled and standardized by a massive cast iron, which requires large capacity ovens. The Matter is then transformed into a kind of small "popcorn" by making it flow in fine drops in water. Basically, the refining process then consists of dissolving the material in highly concentrated acids. Once the material is dissolved, we will take each precious metal by a chemical reaction of precipitate then filtration. It's pretty schematic, but at the end of the process the acids are transformed, by the addition of basic elements, into salts and water. This method is quite conventional and it allows, when it is well controlled to obtain a purity of 99.99% and when it is repeated, we arrive at purities of 99.999%. For some specific industrial uses, we even achieve the purity level of 99.999%, called 5 9.
SAAMP: Our customers give us their old gold for refining. We will simply analyze their lot to immediately make gold, silver, etc. available to them on a weighted account, will allow them to obtain all of our products on contract. It could be shot, wire, plate, solder but also clasps and other findings and even finished products because we have also recently offered a range of classic all-gold jewelry. We will soon be expanding this range with an Origine France Garantie label. Metals available on the weight account can also be transferred to other weight accounts. Transfers are made free of charge if the recipient weight account is in France. Finally, it also happens that clients wish to sell the gold that they have in their weight account. We can buy them and pay for them within 24 hours, or even the same day.
SAAMP: Yes, we have requirements from certain customers, they require special manufacturing according to precise specifications. Take the example of shot for lost wax casting. These alloys are very different from alloys intended for forging or cutting work. The alloy needs very good fluidity when melting, but also they need to have good surface tension to avoid defects. With our alloys for cast iron, we are able to combine the two characteristics expected of such a product; perfect fluidity for the finest details and a flawless surface finish on smooth parts. On the other hand, the products we manufacture for bar turning must meet precise specifications in terms of hardness and resistance of materials. We must be able to make a tube 2 meters long with perfect straightness. The mechanical properties of the alloy used are very precise.
SAAMP: All our products are manufactured in our factory located on the outskirts of Lyon. We ensure 100% French production. France has long allowed its industrial fabric to disappear. We are a bit of diehards who continue to resist. Today the trend seems to be relocation and we are very happy about it.
Our know-how is an asset, but we are always attentive to the needs of our customers and we never hesitate to have new experiences. Although we already have a large machine park, we are constantly investing to improve quality and realize new products. Many years ago, France had an important know-how in the manufacture of all-gold handmade hollow jewelry. For example, we are trying to put cored or lined yarns back on the market to relaunch this activity. Fortunately, other techniques such as bar turning are still perfectly mastered in France. This sector requires high precision semi-finished products. Proximity allows immediate availability of products, much appreciated when material stocks are a drag on productivity.
SAAMP: This certification provides consumers with the traceability of a product by giving a clear and objective indication of origin. A customer who buys a luxury product wants to be assured of the origin of their precious metals. Companies certified as Origine France Garantie can provide complete and reliable information on the provenance of their products. SAAMP, offers this possibility on all its gold, silver and platinum semi-finished products. In the near future, we will also be able to offer this designation on a wider range. This label complements the Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC), Chain of Custody (CoC) which is an international label, essential today in fine jewelry.
SAAMP: We offer all the semi-finished products which are the basis of jewelry making and other industries. Obviously our range is limited to what we can fully control, but this is the sine qua non for having a quality offer. We therefore offer tubes, wires, planes, solders, plates, upright bars of various profiles, shot for cast iron, gold on copper plates and wires and finally shot, salts and anodes for electrolysis. Our products are highly appreciated by manufacturers, designers and brands sensitive to ethical, moral and environmental values.
SAAMP: Sometimes customers ask for specific products. As a rule, our tools allow us to respond immediately to these requests. However, there are times when an investment is necessary to make the requested model. We always consider an investment in a machine tool to be an enrichment for the company and never hesitate to do so. Our fleet of machines has been built up in this way, little by little, according to the specific requests of our customers. This is the case for our production machines, but also for our laboratory measurement facilities, our traceability and quality control processes and our research and development department. It is the demands of the market that drive us forward.