Precision Micro Ltd - Electroforming

We are one of Europe's leading and most relied upon metal component manufacturers, specialising in electroforming. As well as electroforming, we also have significant market leadership with photo etching and numerous other metal component processes.

Electroforming is an ideal fabrication method for products with requirements for very small, very thin, very fine or very precise dimensions and patterns. It is a high precision additive manufacturing process more akin to photographic process than traditional machining.

Handling design complexity is a further key strength of electroforming. By ‘growing’ components in nickel (or other metals) on a mandrel, features and tolerances are managed automatically. Minute components and complex features unachievable through any other manufacturing method are be produced electroforming.

Photo chemical etching is also known as photo etching, metal etching, chemical etching, acid etching and photo chemical milling. Photo chemical etching is an exceptional manufacturing process producing the most intricate, burr free, stress free, high precision profiles in a wide range of metals. Working directly from digital data through Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) or with low cost photo tooling, photo chemical etching is one of the few processes capable of increasing component complexity while maintaining cost-efficiency.

We have an exceptionally strong development team, able to complete customers’ new project requests in hours rather than weeks and months. Our manufacturing technology is geared to producing components to the tightest tolerances in the fastest possible time scales, and all at competitive rates.

We are European leading metal component manufacturers. As leading metal component manufacturers, we deliver an immense variety of metal component manufacturing processes, with particular expertise in photo etching and electroforming.

We specialise in production technologies to provide economic, low-risk, fast, flexible solutions for our customers, minimising their up-front cost exposure through the use of digital tooling. We have the capabilities, skill and facilities to provide prototypes within hours and volume requirements in a timely and economical fashion.

Precision Micro is the name for technology, expertise, innovation and quality in precision components manufacture.

Micromachining covers a broad spectrum of manufacturing processes, each capable of creating discrete components or functional features on larger components, typically in the range of 0.5 to 250 microns.

The majority of these micromachining processes, typically laser micro machining, micro milling or micro wire erosion, depend on single point ablation. In these micromachining processes, increasing complexity invariably takes longer and incurs higher costs. The processes are therefore very much time dependent and as a result, are limited to small/medium volume production requirements.

Precision Micro has developed new process routes capable of creating true and precise micro components and features, in prototype to high volume quantities and where increased complexity does not incur a cost penalty.