About the Webinar

As product designs become smaller, more complex, and increasingly cost-sensitive, traditional manufacturing methods such as stamping and machining often fall short. Chemical etching offers a powerful alternative, enabling intricate, burr-free metal components with extreme precision, low tooling costs, and fast time-to-market.

In this webinar, ENNOVI experts will explore how reel-to-reel photochemical etching enables high-performance parts across automotive, medical, electronics, and industrial applications. Attendees will gain practical insights into when etching is the right manufacturing choice, how half-etching enables advanced features such as micro-channels and retention structures, and how ENNOVI’s cleanroom-controlled processes ensure consistent quality at scale.

Key Takeaways:

  • Enable Complex Designs
    Learn how chemical etching produces unstampable geometries, ultra-fine features, and burr-free parts.
  • Accelerate Time-to-Market
    Discover how low-cost tooling and rapid development cycles enable production readiness in under six weeks.
  • Improve Precision & Performance
    Understand how tight tolerances (up to ±5 µm) and stress-free processing enhance product reliability.
  • Unlock Advanced Applications
    Explore half-etching for micro-channels, fluid control, thermal management, and retention features.
  • Ensure Quality at Scale
    See how ENNOVI’s ISO-certified quality systems and cleanroom manufacturing deliver consistent results.
Why Attend?
With growing demand for compact, high-performance components in automotive, medical, and electronics applications, engineers face increasing pressure to balance performance, cost, and manufacturability. Chemical etching enables design freedom without the high tooling investments and long lead times associated with traditional methods.

In this webinar, ENNOVI will showcase real-world applications including automotive filtration, medical sharps, microfluidic components, and advanced lead-frame solutions. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for evaluating chemical etching as a production-ready solution and understanding when it provides the greatest value over alternative manufacturing methods.

Whether you are designing new components, optimizing existing designs, or evaluating scalable manufacturing options, this session will equip you with actionable insights to make confident design and production decisions.

Speaker’s Profile

Mark Bowden is the General Manager of Etch Logic at ENNOVI, where he leads advanced photochemical etching operations focused on high-precision metal components. He works closely with engineering teams across automotive, medical, and electronics industries to solve complex design challenges using reel-to-reel etching technology. Mark’s expertise spans process development, quality systems, and scalable manufacturing of burr-free, high-tolerance components for demanding applications.

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Chemical Etching Overview

As products continue to shrink in size and increase in complexity, manufacturers require processes capable of producing precise metal components without introducing mechanical stress. ENNOVI’s chemical etching technology enables the production of burr-free, stress-free metal parts with fine features and tight tolerances, supporting complex design requirements across a wide range of applications.

Chemical Etching Capabilities

  • Photochemical metal etching
    Enables the production of precise, flat metal components with complex geometries
  • Proprietary reel-to-reel processing methods
    Support consistent processing and repeatability for precision metal parts
  • Half-etching capabilities
    Enable controlled-depth features such as microchannels, cavities, and retention structures
  • Fine feature etching
    Supports small feature sizes and intricate designs that are difficult to achieve using conventional manufacturing methods
Chemical etching is used in applications where precision, design flexibility, and repeatability are critical, supporting requirements across automotive, medical, electronics, and industrial markets.

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