Photo Etching on Metal: Frequently Asked Questions

What Types of Features Can Be Produced by Photo Etching on Metal?

Photo etching on metal can create intricate patterns, micro channels, fine meshes, thin wall structures, and detailed geometries that are difficult to achieve with mechanical or thermal cutting methods.

How Large Can the Panels Be?

Panels up to 28″ × 68″ can be processed, allowing efficient nesting for both prototypes and high volume production.

Which Metals Are Compatible with Photo Etching?

Supported materials include stainless steel, titanium, brass, copper, nickel alloys, carbon steel, spring steel, and nickel iron alloys.

Does The Process Support Prototyping?

Yes. The workflow is well suited for rapid prototyping because tooling is digital and does not require hard dies, enabling fast design changes and short development cycles.

Photo chemical etching, a precise and versatile manufacturing process, offers a plethora of benefits and features that make it a preferred method for creating intricate metal components across various industries. This process boasts numerous advantages and can manufacture a wide array of metal components with exceptional precision and detail.

Metal Selection

Xinhaisen offer a huge range of metals for etching including: Stainless Steels, Carbon Spring Steels, Copper, Brass, Nickel Silver, Mild steel, Phosphor Bronze, Silver, Beryllium Copper, Aluminium, Nickel, Mu Metal, Alloy 42, Alloy 52 & Many Others.

Benefits of Photo Etching

1.Precise Tooling

The photo-tool artwork for photo chemical etching is free of charge here at Qualitetch, as we like to invest in our customers future.

2.Risk-Free Design

With the ability to produce rapid prototypes with short lead times, the complexity of your design is often not an issue. We will manufacture to your required drawings and to your exacting standards.

3.Right First Time

The chemical etching process does not use mechanical force or heat, which means that the metals properties remain unchanged. The temper of material is also not altered and parts are completely burr-free and stress-free.

4.

No Finishing Required

Our metal etching process leaves no rough edges or burrs, therefore no additional deburring process is often required.

5.A variety of Thicknesses

A huge variety of different material types and thicknesses can be photo etched, ranging from 0.0127mm through to 1.60mm thick.

6.Tolerances From ±0.025mm

As your components features are all etched simultaneously, the complexity achievable can be impressive with profile tolerances achievable from ±0.025mm.

METAL TYPE THICKNESS RANGE MAXIMUM SHEET SIZE

STEEL AND STAINLESS STEELS 0.01mm – 2.5mm 600mm x 1500mm

NICKEL AND NICKEL ALLOYS 0.01mm – 1.5mm 600mm x 1500mm

COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS 0.01mm – 1.5mm 600mm x 1500mm

ALUMINIUM 0.01mm – 1.5mm 600mm x 1500mm

About Us

A flexible manufacturer of precision photo etched metal components delivered on short lead-times to customers worldwide.

Xinhaisen, Your Total Metal Component Manufacturing Solution

A flexible manufacturer of precision photo etched metal components delivered on short lead-times to customers worldwide.

Xinhaisen are a professional, friendly team who exist to service the metal component requirements of our diverse and ever expanding customer base, both in the UK and worldwide.

We are globally renowned for our proactive responsiveness to our customers needs, and for the quality of the bespoke customer specific metal components we supply – this is made possible by our continued commitment to world class customer service and the implementation of lean manufacturing principles, whilst using the latest manufacturing equipment and machinery available within the industry.

Bespoke Packaging

We offer assembly, soldering and spot welding, bespoke packaging, and also many other specialist bespoke customer requirements that our clients may have.