What is Photo Etching?
Photo etching, which is likewise known as chemi etching, chemical etching or image chemical milling (PCM) is a manufacturing procedure which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce detailed and highly precise accuracy metal components.
Metal etching provides a very quick turnaround alternate service to other processes such as marking, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for extremely fine function complex metal components from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in a lot of metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned and after that laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive resist, which is then printed with your preferred CAD artwork style profile.
After printing your design, the metal is then established, which effectively removes any unexposed photo-resist from the print process, leaving a raw metal profile track line for the etchant chemistry to etch through the metal.
After engraving out the profile design, we merely eliminate the blue UV photo-sensitive withstand to leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the larger decoration sheet.
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Metal Etching Advantages include: Picture etching is an entirely burr totally free and worry-free process without any mechanical force or heat being applied to the metal parts during production.
Art work is in CAD format and moved to an acetate photo-tool, therefore any style modifications are extremely basic modify and extremely fast implement and cost effective. We provide FREE photo-tool artwork at Qualitetch, as soon as you supply a DXF of your needed profile, but a number of our competitors charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our picture etching procedure does not recognise the intricacy of your design for that reason parts with numerous holes such as meshes can be made at no additional expense than a basic shape Mumetal Etching profile.Tolerances provided from +-0.025 mm depending on material type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts offered within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, also called chemical etching or photochemical machining, is a highly accurate, cost-effective metal machining process utilized to produce complex elements from a wide range of metals.
We provide a market-leading image etching service, specialising in the co-development of photo-etched element solutions for leading companies in more than 30 nations.