Photo Etching: Orbel’s etching techniques allow them to produce the most intricate components while maintaining extremely tight tolerances. This process provides a fast and cost effective way to produce a wide variety of precision metal parts.

• Offers a wide selection of materials

• Etching metal thickness from 0.0178mm to 0.813mm

• Allows for quick design modifications

• Eliminates the cost of hard tooling

• Produces burr and stress-free high quality precision parts

• In-house photo tooling provides quick turnaround on parts

Custom Stamping: Orbel’s capabilities range from short-run single hit to high volume progressive die stamping.

• Materials ranging from 0.0508mm to 0.813mm thick

• Wide variety of material choices including beryllium copper, stainless steel, brass, phosphor bronze, copper alloys, and others

• A dedicated prototype department

• Short, medium and high volume production

• Tape and reel packaging

• In-house operations include forming, heat treating, plating and assembly

Electroplating: Orbel’s electroplating services are at the core of their production capabilities. From continuous and complete material coverage to intermittent and localised deposits, a wide range of manufacturing flexibility is employed to meet customer requirements. Standard finishes include tin, nickel copper, tin lead, zinc, nickel, electroless nickel, gold, silver, ebinol and passivation.

• Plating methods include rack, barrel and reel to reel

• Reel to reel plating of strip from 6.35mm to 660mm wide by 0.018mm to 1.02mm thick materials.

• Coil weights from 0.45kg to 2.25 tonnes

• Tight tolerance rack and barrel plating for the electronic industry

• Custom masking and racking available when required