Our nickel etching service offers fast, distortion-free nickel-based components from any nickel grade.
Unlike stamping, chemical etching uses low-cost digital tooling to offset expensive press tools. This means prototypes and production parts can be supplied in just a few days, not weeks or months.
Chemical etching is well suited to high-temperature nickel-based super-alloy Inconel, which offers superior heat resistance and exhibits excellent resistance to corrosion, pressure and oxidation.
Suitable nickel and nickel alloy grades
| Alloy | 42, 52, 59, 151, 194, 195, 602 |
| Copper-nickel (cupronickel) | 90-10, 70-30, 66-30-2-2 |
| Elgiloy | – |
| Haynes | 25, 214, 230, HR120 |
| High Perm | 49 |
| Hymu | 80 |
| Incoloy | 800HT |
| Inconel | 600, 617, 690, 718, X-750 |
| Invar | – |
| Kovar | – |
| Monel | 400, 401, 404, K-500, 405 |
| Nichrome | – |
| Nickel iron | – |
| Nickel silver | All grades |
| Nickel | 200, 201, 205, 233, 270 |
| Nimonic | 90 |
| Radiometal | 4550 |
Nickel etching components
- Electronics components for medical devices, including hearing aid contacts and active implant battery capacitors
- Inconel bipolar plates with complex etched channels that come into contact with corrosive liquids and gases
- Solder-free nickel silver EMI/RFI shielding cans
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Benefits at a glance
- Prototype to volume — fast
- Unlimited complexity – you only pay for the first hole
- No hard tooling
- Low-cost design iterations — fast
- Burr-and stress-free – metal properties unaffected
- Lead-times in days, not months
- All nickel grades
- Accuracy to ±0.025mm
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