Tech-Etch combines photochemical etching with precision metal bending to create extremely small formed features in thin metal parts. A staff of talented and creative tool and die makers utilize state-of-the-art techniques to manufacture tools capable of forming features down to 0.003 in. in a wide variety of metals. Tech-Etch continues to push the manufacturing envelope…
Photo-etched tungsten parts excel in medical applications
Photo-etched parts made from materials such as nitinol, elgiloy, titanium, and niobium find extensive use in the medical industry. Tech-Etch in Plymouth, Mass., specializes in the photo-chemical etching of tungsten. Because tungsten is extremely dense, 71% heavier than lead, it often serves in medical applications, including grids used to collimate and attenuate stray x-rays in…