WHAT IS CHEMICAL ETCHING?
Chemical etching, also known as chemical milling or photo etching, acid etching, is a subtractive sheet metal machining process which uses chemical etchants to create complex and highly accurate precision components from almost any metal.
We have been at the forefront of etching technology for almost 20 years. This is because our unmatched chemical etching process know-how enables us to offer a fast, economical, quality-assured etching service for the widest range of metals.
Chemical etching benefits
With chemical etching, manufacturers are enabled to create metal parts even with the most difficult and intricate of designs, all while achieving high repeatability and consistent production quality.
We use low-cost, automated digital tooling which can be created and changed extremely quickly and cost-effectively. This ensures risk-free prototyping without financial penalty.
Photo-etched components are burr and stress-free with no mechanical force or heat used, leaving material properties unaltered.
Because component features are etched all at the same time, we can offer almost limitless part complexity to micron accuracy. Company logos, part numbers or serial numbers can also be etched into the surface of the component during manufacture at no additional cost.
Our full range of service benefits include:
- Unlimited complexity — you only pay for the first hole
- No expensive hard tooling
- Low-cost design iterations
- Burr and stress-free — metal properties unaffected
- Lead-times in a few days — quicker on request
- Almost any metal, including those typically hard to machine
- Micron accuracy
- Company logos, part numbers or serial numbers etched at no additional cost
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