What is Photo Etching?
Picture etching, which is likewise referred to as chemi etching, chemical etching or picture chemical milling (PCM) is a manufacturing process which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce elaborate and highly precise precision metal components.
Metal etching offers a really quick turn-around alternate service to other processes such as stamping, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for really great function complex metal elements from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in many metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned and then laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive resist, which is then printed with your wanted CAD art work style profile.
After printing your design, the metal is then developed, which effectively washes away any unexposed photo-resist from the print process, leaving a raw metal profile track line for the etchant chemistry to engrave through the metal.
After engraving out the profile design, we simply remove the blue UV photo-sensitive resist to leave the raw metal Mumetal Etching parts either loose or tabbed into the bigger decoration sheet.
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Metal Etching Benefits include: Photo etching is a completely burr complimentary and worry-free procedure with no mechanical force or heat being applied to the metal parts during production.
Art work remains in CAD format and transferred to an acetate photo-tool, therefore any style modifications are extremely simple amend and really quick execute and cost effective. We offer COMPLIMENTARY photo-tool art work at Qualitetch, when you supply a DXF of your needed profile, however a lot of our competitors charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our image etching procedure does not identify the complexity of your style for that reason components with lots of holes such as meshes can be made at no additional cost than a basic shape profile.Tolerances provided from +-0.025 mm dependent on product type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts offered within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, likewise called chemical etching or photochemical machining, is a highly precise, economical metal machining process used to produce intricate elements from a wide variety of metals.
We provide a market-leading picture etching service, specialising in the co-development of photo-etched part services for leading companies in more than 30 nations.