HIGH QUALITY SURFACE FINISHING AT OPTIMUM COST

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HIGH QUALITY SURFACE FINISHING AT OPTIMUM COST
31 January 2002 - Tecan

A dedicated new £1m purpose-built facility is providing, OEMs and other discerning partners, with access to market leading high-specification surface-finishing, producing cost-effective bespoke plating for both everyday solutions and niche applications.

Weymouth based Tecan offers long-standing experience and expertise, which are applied to individual needs, producing cost-effective, highly accurate and repeatable results, with optimum finish characteristics. Cleanliness and quality are key, throughout the plating processes, producing consistently superior surface finishes using all popular and niche-application plated finishes.

Finishes available include acid gold, pure gold, silver, bright tin, 60/40 tin lead, 90/10 tin lead, sulphamate nickel, electroless nickel, copper, Type 1 sulphuric anodising and Type 3 hard anodising (colours to specification), stainless steel passivating, and Alochrome 1200 chemical blackening.

Non-destructive X-ray fluorescent testing is employed, to ensure consistently flat and even surfaces and desired thickness meet the required specifications. QA programmes can be tailored to suit individual statistical process control needs, with traceability reports generated as necessary.

Typical components produced by the company include leadframes, evaporation masks, crystal masks, hybrid lids, meshes and bespoke PCM parts requiring in-house plating. Also, other very high-specification components requiring demanding levels of finish, both in terms of across-surface plating consistency and edge resolution - typically for application in the precision engineering, electronics, aerospace, pharmaceutical and medical equipment markets.

Tecan's new metal finishing facility has been designed with the flexibility to offer market-leading order turnround from small batch to scheduled requirements.

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About: Tecan
Tecan is a world-class, ISO 9001:2000 registered precision metal part and tool manufacturer, based in Weymouth, UK. Formed in 1970, Tecan offers the 'total' one-stop contract-manufacturing solution - from technology development through to rapid prototyping and volume production.

Tecan's team of experienced engineers work closely with the customer to develop manufacturing solutions to meet their exact cost and tolerance requirements. Years of process development have culminated in Tecan being able to cost-effectively manufacture metal parts with feature sizes down to 2-micron at sub-micron accuracy - and to put that into perspective, there are 1,000-microns to one millimetre.

Technological innovation and expertise form the basis of Tecan's success, and have provided the platform for the development of competences in several process technologies, including:

• Photo Chemical Machining (PCM)
• Photo ElectroForming (PEF)
• Precision photolithography
• Precision electroplating

Tecan works on a global basis with a diverse range of OEM customers, who are involved in a wide array of industries. The nature of Tecan's competences, combined with its commitment to R&D, allows it to stretch to meet the requirements of virtually any application.

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