Delphi Brazing Consultants is owned and operated by Philip Roberts. He first became involved with the brazing process in 1956 when he joined Johnson Matthey and trained as a silver assayer and then moved Department and trained as a Process Control Metallurgist. In 1963 he joined the Sales Technical Services Department of the company and trained as a brazing specialist. This role required Philip to be active in "hands-on" technical trouble shooting in both the UK and mainland Europe.
During the next 30 years he occupied a number of marketing and technical posts with three of the (then) primary suppliers of precious metal products to Industry; Johnson Matthey plc, Engelhard Industries, and Degussa AG.
From 1973 onwards he gained first-hand experience of automated brazing systems by operating as the UK specialist for ELGA GmbH, then the subsidiary of Degussa AG. And in 1984 he was appointed Manager of the Brazing Products Department of Degussa Limited, then the UK subsidiary of Degussa AG. In this new role he also assumed responsibility for the sales technical services aspects within the UK and Ireland for the range of continuous conveyor, controlled atmosphere brazing furnaces manufactured by Mahler Deinstleistungs GmbH, then a subsidiary of Degussa AG.
In 1993 he was promoted to the position of Manager - Precious Metals Division of Degussa limited, a post he held until taking early retirement in April 1996. On retirement he created Delphi Brazing Consultants.
In May 2010, and because of his internationally recognised technical expertise in brazing, he was elected to the Chairmanship of two important Committees. These were:
- CEN/TC121- SC8 and,
- BSI WEE/19
The first of these is concerned with the development of European Standards for technical matters related to all facets of the Brazing Process, while the latter is the Committee based at the British Standards Institute that deals with similar matters in respect of the BS EN versions of European Standards.
He is also the Chairman of EABS, (European Association for Brazing and Soldering) a post that he has held since 1998.
Earlier in his career he was a Member of the UK delegations to both ISO and the International Institute of Welding, (IIW), for matters concerned with Brazing.
Since 2006 he has been the principal UK Expert for Brazing on ISO/TC44 – WG3, a group of international technical specialists who are responsible for the generation and/or revision of new International Standards for all matters that relate to the brazing process.