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Welcome to Applications

This section describes many of the major uses of platinum group metals and their unique properties.

    • InvestmentInvestment
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      Platinum is a tangible asset which has many of the attributes of other precious metal investments. During the last thirty years a number of different retail investment platinum products have been introduced.

    • WatchesWatches
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      Used in the watch industry to produce cases and bracelets for high quality watches, nearly all prestige watch companies have a platinum watch at the top of their model range, mostly housing complex mechanical movements

    • Other Platinum ApplicationsOther Platinum Applications
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      In addition to its well known applications platinum has a wide variety of other uses inclusing non-catalytic automotive, dental alloys, biomedical and turbine blades.

    • New Application DevelopmentNew Application Development
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      Continuous research into the properties and qualities of  platinum group metals is unearthing new applications every year. In this section we publish a monthly list of links to news items about scientific discoveries that could result in new applications for the pgm.