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Since 1967, Fotofab has been fabricating custom metal components for innovators in the medical device and implantable industry. Leading medical companies choose Fotofab because of our tight tolerances, quick lead times, and ability to adapt fast. Our process of photochemical machining (also known as chemical etching) allows us to achieve exact to requirement parts and enables us to grow from prototype through production seamlessly.
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Since 1967, Fotofab has been fabricating custom metal components for innovators in the medical device and implantable industry. Leading medical companies choose Fotofab because of our tight tolerances, quick lead times, and ability to adapt fast. Our process of photochemical machining (also known as chemical etching) allows us to achieve exact to requirement parts and enables us to grow from prototype through production seamlessly.
Manufacturing Components for Medical Devices
Fotofab fabricates custom parts from a long list of metals and alloys including, Titanium, Stainless Steel, and Elgiloy. Metal parts manufactured with the etching process are produced in sheets up to 24 x 36 inches and can be turned around in as little as one day. We have a minimum order quantity of two sheets, making prototyping and R&D fast, easy, and cost effective. Depending on the part design, we can manufacture parts ranging in thickness from 0.0002 to 0.125 inches with extreme precision.
Value-Added Services Offered
Along with custom etched components, Fotofab offers a variety of finishing services. Common requests include forming, electropolishing, and heat treating. Depending on the feature requirements, finishing services are available on most Fotofab manufactured parts. We will work hard to deliver your components complete and ready to use.
Fotofab’s Quality Guarantee
We strive for superior service from drawing to delivery and are committed to the highest quality of metal etching services. Our experienced engineering team has an average of 10+ years at our company and is well equipped to guide you from idea to product. Fotofab is ISO 9001 and AS9100D certified, ITAR registered, and RoHS compliant (available upon request).
We want you to trust us to do what we say and honor what we said. Make Fotofab a part in your plan.
Fotofab, LLC
3758 W Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
866-279-5185
CONTACT US: www.fotofab.com/office-location
WEBSITE: www.fotofab.com
Fotofab has manufactured custom EMI shielding and RFI shielding enclosures for over fifty years. RF/EMI shields for attenuating components ranging in operating (and harmonic) frequencies from a few hertz to over 50 GHz. Shields can be flat or formed, solid or with through holes, and can have the classic cube shape or a custom geometry. Fotofab stocks a large assortment of standard shields, available to ship same day. They are bright Tin-plated Brass half hard and 0.015” thick.
Fotofab screens can be designed in any shape, percentage open-area, and in a variety of metals. Even brittle metal and thin foils are easier to etch than stamp, or machine in other traditional forms of manufacturing. These screens can be used to filter liquids and/or gases and withstand harsh environments.
Fotofab's photochemical etching process is well suited to making a large number of very small holes in sheet metal simultaneously. It costs the same to produce one hole as it does to fill an entire sheet of metal with holes. We are able to produce rotary and shaft encoders with finer features and holding tighter tolerances than other manufacturing methods.
Fotofab provides a full range of metal bending and forming services on a rapid delivery basis. We manufacture all our own tooling in-house so that we control quality and lead times. Our system of forming utilizes simple tooling which can be built quickly and inexpensively. Rather than making costly progressive dies, tooling is broken up into multiple stations, with each stage performing an individual operation such as a single bend. These stations can be made in parallel, saving time.
Chicago, IL, 11/16/2020—Fotofab, LLC is exhibiting its products and services at the following trade shows in 2023.
The COVID pandemic forced all of us into a new norm of social distancing, mask wearing, and remote communication. Some industries within manufacturing struggled to adapt their business strategies to maintain production. Others thrived with the new opportunities that the pandemic prompted.
Finger-print technology brings a more advanced level of precision and speed to the 50+ year old process.
Chicago, IL, June 29, 2020 —Fotofab, LLC (fotofab.com) has acquired a new CBT (Chime Ball Technologies) (cbtech.com.tw/en) direct imaging (DI) machine from Technica, USA (technica.com) to optimize its chemical etching process and provide a more advanced level of precision and speed for thin metal parts.
