Quartz and Technical Ceramics – CNC Machining, Polishing and Fabrication

By AZoM

Introduction
Fabricated Quartzware
Other Services Offered by Multi-lab
About Multi-Lab

Introduction

For more than 25 years, Multi-lab has specialized in the development and manufacture of high precision machined and polished parts. As a custom fabricator and polisher of fused quartz, ceramics, sapphire, shapal M and Macor, the company’s skilled CNC machine and polishing engineers having rich experience in the field of precision grinding and processing will continually manufacture components that will surpass customers’ expectations. The company can meet extremely close tolerances needed to satisfy both military and industrial specifications. Key industries such as semiconductor and solar and aerospace depend on Multi-lab’s high-quality performance and production guarantees. Other than supplying a quotation from a customer drawing, an added benefit is that the company’s engineers are capable of taking the customer’s component and reverse engineering it or they can take a CAD file from the customer and feed it directly into their system using all common file formats. The final inspection area enables products to be measured to 5 decimal places using their CMM equipment if this level of quality control is needed.

Fabricated Quartzware

At its two UK sites Multi-lab can undoubtedly supply a service second to none, within its Newcastle upon Tyne facility. Multi-lab fabricates Quartzware and produces machined components for a wide range of industries, these include MOCVD equipment customers manufacturing planetary reactors, showerhead concepts and high-temperature research systems, UV Water sterilisation, UV drying, UV lamp manufacturing, R and D, medical and university fabricated parts. Along with manufacturing advanced products for the semiconductor and PV Industries Multi-lab also supports several other markets and Industries with superior quality and competitively priced fabricated products. Between the two UK sites, the company has an excess of 25 hot bench and lathe trained glass blowers with an apprentice training program in place to sustain and increase its manufacturing capabilities.

Within its East Kilbride facility all the staff were trained by Heraeus quartz to a very high standard, and have spent several years producing some of the most sophisticated fabricated Quartzware used in the semiconductor, photovoltaic and related Industries.

Fabricated Quartzware is offered by Multi-lab for both batch and single wafer applications.

Multi-lab capabilities include:

All horizontal and vertical furnace ware for up to 200mm wafers. The company also has the capability to produce some 300mm wafer products. This includes photovoltaic products. The company has rich experience producing single wafers parts for most OEM's, for Dry Etch, Metallization and Implant system.
Wet etch and Pre-Diffusion clean acid tanks and peripherals.
Plasma ash chambers and accompanying quartz parts.
The large lathe manufacturing capabilities of Multi-lab enables them to build tubes up to 450mm in diameter

Other Services Offered by Multi-lab

Multi-lab offer the following services:

Ultrasonic Grinding and Drilling
Surface Grinding and Slicing
ID and OD Grinding
Centerless Grinding
Core Drilling and Machining up to very large diameters
Prototype Machining and Polishing
CNC Machining
CNC Turning and Milling
High tolerance Lapping and Polishing

About Multi-Lab

Multi-Lab is one of the leading High Purity Natural and Synthetic Quartz Glass distributors in Europe. Multi- Lab has always been a defining force in the sale and fabrication of quartz glass within the Semiconductor, Fibre Optic and Lighting industries.

They are also able to manufacture a range of components to customer specification in various other technical ceramics such as alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide, steatite, boron nitride, cordierite, silicon nitride and Macor.