Brush Wellman 是世界領先的高性能銅、鎳和鈹合金的供應商﹐並且是全球唯一的鈹和鈹氧化物的綜合生產商。1931年﹐在Brush 實驗室的基礎上成立了Brush 鈹產品公司﹐並由Charles Baldwin Sawyer 負責經營和管理。他和他的科學傢伙伴Bengt Kjellgren一起發明了利用熱衝擊技術從綠寶石礦中提取鈹的方法。公司的鈹產品銷售業績在戰爭與和平時期的應用中穩步增長。鈹對原子能和高速航空器的發展貢獻巨大。它還在“水星號''載人太空飛行計劃中用於製造再入飛行器的隔熱屏。截至1960年﹐鈹金屬﹐合金﹐氧化物和陶瓷的銷售量已增至四倍。 Brush Wellman is the leading global supplier of High Performance Copper, Nickel and Beryllium alloys and the only fully integrated producer of beryllium and beryllium oxide in the world. Brush Laboratories became the Brush Beryllium Co. in 1931 under the leadership of Charles Baldwin Sawyer. He and fellow scientist, Bengt Kjellgren, developed a process of extracting beryllium from beryl ore by thermal shock techniques.
The company's sales of beryllium steadily grew through war and peacetime applications. Beryllium contributed to the development of atomic energy and high-speed aircraft. It was also used to form the heat shield for the reentry vehicle in the Project Mercury manned space flights. By 1960, the sales of beryllium metal, alloys, oxides and ceramics quadrupled.