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.
Because of his internationally recognised technical expertise in brazing he has served on each of the following technical committees:
The International Institute of Welding (IIW)
Chairman - Low-temperature brazing Group
Member of the UK Delegation to the International Standards Organisation (ISO).
Brazing committee
British Standards Institute
Brazing Committee
European Association for Brazing and Soldering (EABS)
Chairman: 1972 - 1974 & 1998 - to date.