Tecan Components says that it is experiencing "significant interest" in its electroformed parts for micro-applications.

The company uses silicon wafers with 3D structures on the surface as a
template onto which a mirror-image is electroformed in nickel. The metal
duplicate is simply separated from the silicon and further processed or used
as a template for other objects.
The company hopes for applications in medicine, pharmaceuticals, electronics
and aerospace. Non-disclosure agreements exist with several companies. Some
wafer foundries and fabs have expressed interest in the idea of using nickel
replicas for various new-concept production processes.

A new operation - Micro Engineering Marketing and Support (M.E.M.S) - has
been established to sell maskless photolithography processes and systems in
the UK and Ireland. Equipment and support services are also on offer.
The business will be an exclusive distributor for products manufactured by
Intelligent Micro Patterning of the USA. The company's primary markets will
be for thin-film, micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and biotech
research.
Micro Engineering is a trading name of Shorekarn of the UK.

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