Contract Lapping for Thickness, Flatness, Parallelism

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Contract Lapping for Thickness, Flatness, Parallelism

Valley Design provides contract precision lapping, grinding and optical polishing services, operating from facilities in Santa Cruz, CA and Boston, MA areas. The company is ISO 9001:2008 certified and grinds, laps and polishes most materials.

Customer specifications may include:

  • Surface finish
  • Thickness tolerance
  • Flatness
  • Parallelism
  • Single sided or double sided lapped or polished
  • Squareness
  • Scratch specification
  • Defect specification
  • Step and counterbore depth tolerance
  • Coplanarity with different assembled materials

Lapping specifications will be met by using a combination of diamond slurries and compounds, free abrasives and fixed abrasive materials.

Precision lapping and optical polishing processes include:

  • Polishing pads
  • Electro polishing
  • Diamond slurries
  • Diamond suspensions
  • Lapping compounds
  • Abrasive slurries
  • CMP
  • Vibratory polishing
  • Soft metal laps
  • Hard metal laps
  • Composite polishing plates
  • Optical polishing

Surfaces produced can have a dull matte finish or can be highly polished to a mirror finish and multiple other surface finishes in between.

Contract lapping, grinding and polishing by Valley Design:

Updated: 09 July 2010