United Mineral & Chemical Corp

United Mineral & Chemical Corp, doing business as U M C, a small-business supplier based in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, delivers high-purity materials, specialized effusion cells, molecular beam epitaxy equipment, and ultra-high vacuum thin-film deposition systems to federal research and development agencies as a prime contractor on 75 of 81 recent awards (93%), competing predominantly in full-and-open and small-business set-aside categories without reliance on 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other federal small-business certifications.

U M C's customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, which accounts for 46 awards and $1.6 million in combined potential value — 57% of the vendor's prime portfolio by award count. The Department of the Army's Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command represents the second-largest customer by dollar value ($612 thousand across 9 awards), followed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (13 awards, $547 thousand). The top five customer agencies account for 90% of recent awards. U M C sits on one named IDV, the Navy's Indefinite Delivery Contract N0014004D0011, with 2 task orders.

Recent capability work spans specialized materials supply and precision equipment manufacturing. Representative prime contracts include a $395 thousand firm-fixed-price definitive contract (September 2022) from Army Materiel Command for one ultra-high vacuum thin metal film deposition system (ultimate completion July 2025) with specifications including ultra-high vacuum base pressures below 5×10⁻¹¹ Torr and substrate heating to 950 degrees Celsius, delivered to the Adelphi Laboratory Center; a $233 thousand purchase order from the Office of Naval Research (September 2023) for a 4-inch substrate manipulator for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); a $127 thousand small-business set-aside contract from NIST (February 2022) for six effusion cells of varying types, one rack mount, and one rackmount controller supporting materials research and semiconductor development; and a $90 thousand small-business set-aside purchase order from NIST (July 2025) for four Ferrovac brand ultra-high vacuum wobble sticks for scanning probe microscopy laboratories. U M C also supplies ultra-high purity source materials — 7N antimony, indium, aluminum pieces, and gallium — and provides repair and rebuild services for effusion cells and related MBE components, typically in sub-$100 thousand transactions.

Top NAICS categories reflect this portfolio: Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers (30 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (13 awards), and Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing (7 awards). Top PSC codes are Laboratory Equipment and Supplies and Chemicals (20 awards each). Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years (2022 through 2026: five, four, six, four, and one award respectively), with combined potential value across all 81 awards at $3 million. In its subcontractor role, U M C supplies high-purity gallium ingots, antimony material, and nickel pieces to HRL Laboratories LLC under the Air Force's STAR-FISH Advanced Research Announcement, and supplies battery electrolyte materials to Valkyrie Enterprises LLC.

From our HEADQUARTERS in LYNDHURST, NJ and over the first 75 years of our existence, it has always been our business model to provide quality products, from stock when possible, with quick turn-around time, and at a superior price. We also realize the importance of Technical Service and have taken the steps to insure that our personnel from Management to Sales to Customer Service are highly skilled in their area of expertise.