What is Image Etching?
Image etching, which is likewise called chemi etching, chemical etching or picture chemical milling (PCM) is a production process which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce detailed and extremely precise precision metal parts.
Metal etching provides an extremely fast turn-around alternate option to other processes such as marking, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for very fine function complex metal elements from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in most metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned up and then laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive withstand, which is then printed with your desired CAD art work design profile.
After printing your style, the metal is then established, which efficiently 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 etching out the profile style, we just get rid of the blue UV photo-sensitive resist to leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the bigger fretwork sheet.
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Metal Etching Benefits consist of: Image etching is a totally burr complimentary and hassle-free procedure with no mechanical force or heat being applied to the metal parts throughout production.
Artwork remains in CAD format and transferred to an acetate photo-tool, for that reason any style changes are really simple modify and very quick implement and cost effective. We provide COMPLIMENTARY Industrial Etching photo-tool artwork at Qualitetch, as soon as you supply a DXF of your needed profile, but a number of our rivals charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our picture etching procedure does not recognise the intricacy of your design therefore parts with many holes such as meshes can be made at no additional expense than a basic shape 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 offer a market-leading image etching service, specialising in the co-development of photo-etched element solutions for leading companies in more than 30 nations.