Digital tooling acetate sheets

chemical etching process

Chemical Milling / Chemical Etching

Since 1968, Photofab have specialised in precision chemical etching, building a reputation as the world leaders through exceptional customer service, lead-times and quality management of chemical etching and value-added services.

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Hard tooling and forming

Dedicated Sheet Metal Engineering

At Photofab we understand that engineering is an essential part of the production journey. That’s why we at Photofab have heavily invested in a dedicated secondary engineering unit, with the aim of this is to offer an even greater service and flexibility to our customers.

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CAD design for etching

Electronic File Handling

Digital files have now become an essential part of our tooling process – digital tooling gives a huge flexibility of design, while allowing our team to easily review and edit designs.

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Metal etching quality checks

Prototyping to High Volume

Photofab offers their services in every possible volume – we can prototype single pieces and scale all the way up to a high-volume production. We offer this flexibility in a range of our industry leading processes.

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Photofab chemical etching metal forming

Sheet Metal Forming & Tooling Manufacture

Our metal forming and tooling team have built a wealth of experience and expertise to compliment the established etching division and create a full manufacturing service.

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Volume chemical etched parts

Far East Supply Chain

Photofab offers the option of utilising their strong relationship with a quality manufacturing supply chain in the Far East.

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Metal Laser cutting

Laser Cutting

Our laser cutting service was created to offer customers precision cutting on materials thicker than 1.5mm whilst maintaining the same standards and quality control as our in-house etching services.

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Metal stamping

Metal Stamping

Metal stamping is best used for high volume applications, as the more volume is produced the better cost effective the initial outlay on the tooling is.

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Photofab chemical etching

Photo Etching

There is a phrase often associated with Photofab and photo etching, “If you can draw it, we can make it”. With nearly 50 years experience and a large pool of technical knowledge, we are specialists in photo etching of thin metal parts.

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