MicroBridge Services Ltd

Background to MicroBridge

MicroBridge Services Ltd is a new company which offers micro and nano machining and manufacturing commercial services to industry and is open to anyone wishing to use the resources of a university facility on a commercial open-access basis. MicroBridge’s highly specialised team of engineers and machinists is matched by its first-class facilities. It offers the possibility to create discrete micro components and 3D surface structures from 1mm down to 50 nanometres using a range of process technologies including picosecond laser micromachining, micro milling, micro electro-discharge machining EDM, micro injection moulding, focussed ion-beam milling and nano-imprinting processes.

Our services

  • Prototyping services
  • Process development
  • Single component and small batch production
  • Volume production using injection moulding
  • Technical consultancy
  • Product design and development
  • Contract and collaborative research

Sectors

MicroBridge offers a comprehensive range of contract micro and nano structuring and machining capability across a wide range of market sectors including:

  • Medical devices
  • Diagnostics and pharmaceuticals
  • Healthcare and biotechnology
  • Automotive, industrial and precision engineering
  • Aerospace
  • Photonics and microelectronics

MicroBridge can work with a wide range of different materials from hard metals to softer polymers and difficult-to-machine ceramics and glass.

www.microbridge.cf.ac.uk


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