The company has operations in Perth, Western Australia; Albury, New South Wales;Huntington, West Virginia; Dunkirk, New York; Burnaugh, Kentucky; Elkhart, Indiana and Hereford, England.

[citation needed] SMC's trademarks include Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic, and Udimet.

"In 1952, a predecessor of Special Metals pioneered the melting technology that led to the practical development of the superalloys that are the critical materials used in the 'hot' section of modern jet engines.

"[3] At year end of 1996, SMC had "45 million pounds of vacuum induction melting capacity", 590 employees, was incorporated in Delaware and was managed by Don Muzyka.

[2] SMC is now ultimately owned by Berkshire Hathaway as a result of the latter company's acquisition of Precision Castparts in January 2016. This United States manufacturing company–related article is a stub.