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A practical guide to acoustic resistance, port alignment, aperture geometry, sealing and process choice for thin metal mesh over MEMS microphones.

What espresso machine OEMs should define before sourcing a shower screen: flow pattern, sealing land, forming, cleanability, finish and process choice.

The shield is usually the last part designed and the first part to hold up a build. The board respins, components move, the vent pattern shifts — and the can no longer fits. Etched shields don't have that problem, because the shield is a drawing before it's anything else. Shielding is one of the four product lines Metching is built around. From our Dongguan plant, etching electronics and semiconductor components since 2005, we make shielding cans, covers, lids and board-level

A manufacturing guide to clear-aperture geometry, stack alignment, edge profile, finish and process selection for thin optical baffle vane plates.

An encoder disc has one job: put the same slot in the same place, every revolution, for years. Stamping gets there with a precision die that wears. Laser cutting gets there with taper and dross on the slot walls. Etching photographs your CAD file into the metal — so disc one and disc ten thousand carry the identical pattern. Encoder discs are where Metching started in electronics etching. We're a Dongguan plant producing etched components since 2005, specialising in parts for

How to specify datum strategy, aperture registration, material, flatness and inspection for thin alignment masks used in silicon photonics test fixtures.

A package drawing lands on our desk. The silicon schedule is set, qualification has a date, and nobody has budgeted for a progressive die yet. That gap — between a finished drawing and a justified die — is where etched lead frames earn their keep. Metching is a Dongguan etching plant working on electronics and semiconductor components since 2005. Lead frames are one of our core lines. We etch them in copper and stainless steel from 0.05 to 2.5 mm thick, straight off the packa

A practical DFM guide to contact-clearance geometry, datum selection, flatness and process choice for thin metal ground planes used in IC test sockets.

FMM-less OLED patterning changes the industry discussion, but etched metal masks still have roles where aperture bias, tension, sag and registration are controlled.

A practical DFM guide to thin fuel-metering plates, focusing on effective flow area, hole profile, plate thickness, manifold conditions and inspection.

Why sealing lands, flatness, stack height and port registration usually matter more than a heroic channel-width tolerance in an etched microfluidic layer.

A drawing-level guide to metal encoder discs for robot joints, covering concentricity, slot geometry, mounting datums, inspection, and the limits of etching.

Metacon and PERIC's new alkaline stack highlights a broader engineering question: where thin nickel flow plates, distribution plates and shims can benefit from photo etching.

Tighter tolerance does not automatically mean better engineering. For thin-metal parts, functional tolerancing can reduce unnecessary manufacturing and inspection cost without compromising performance.

Direct-to-package microfluidics is pushing liquid cooling closer to semiconductor heat sources. Here is what that shift means for manifolds, orifice arrays and precision flow-control layers.

A practical guide to choosing chemical etching, stamping/forming, or 3D manufacturing for metallic PEM fuel-cell bipolar plate flow fields during prototype and production development.

A practical engineering comparison of photo etching and stamping for 0.1–0.5 mm compressor reed valves, covering burrs, fatigue, tooling, design changes and production volume.

How microchannel, manifold and jet-flow cold plates handle rising AI chip heat loads—and where photo-etched flow, distribution and orifice layers can fit in layered liquid-cooling designs.

A thin RF shim changes both mechanical stack-up and the electromagnetic interface. Aperture position, thickness and flange contact must be controlled together.

An entrance slit is a mechanical aperture with optical consequences. Width, edge quality, straightness, thickness and alignment must be specified together.