Mimotec Additive Manufacturing

The World's Most Advanced Manufacturer of Electroformed Microcomponents

View More

View More

The Advantages of UV-LIGA

Micro-Manufacturing

Design Flexibility

Design Flexibility

UV-LIGA technology opens up a world of possibilities. Mimotec manufactures microcomponents for watch movements and microtechnical mechanisms, with unequalled design freedom. Its only limitation is the imagination of its customers.

Surface Quality

Surface Quality

The process used for micromanufacturing components is based on microelectronic technologies. Known as UV-Liga, the process combines photolithography and electroforming, resulting in a high-quality functional surface.

Miniaturisation

Miniaturisation

UV-LIGA micromanufacturing achieves levels of miniaturisation unequalled by traditional technologies. It attains accuracies of up to ±2 µm.

Corrosion Resistance

Corrosion Resistance

Mimotec uses nickel and pure gold based materials, making them resistant to corrosion.

Precision

Precision

UV-LIGA technology is continually evolving and stretching the limits of micromanufacturing advancement with high precision.

The UV-LIGA process

The UV-LIGA process developed by Mimotec

The UV-LIGA process developed by Mimotec is based on microelectronic technologies. It enables the micromanufacturing of components by combining photolithography and electroforming. This additive technology has the advantage of being inexpensive and quick to implement, which makes the process very competitive compared to traditional material removal methods. It is ideal for rapid prototyping as well as for mass production, and it achieves a level of micrometric accuracy as well as an unequalled surface finish quality.

Learn more
Products and Services

Mimotec manufactures microcomponents with considerable design freedom and high precision

UV-LIGA technology

UV-LIGA opens up new perspectives

New perspectives in the miniaturisation of components as well as in surface microstructuring. It enables us to produce geometries that cannot be achieved using standard production processes. This additive technology has the advantage of being inexpensive and quick to implement. This makes the process very competitive compared to traditional material removal methods. It is ideal for rapid prototyping as well as for mass production, and it achieves a level of micrometric accuracy as well as an unequalled surface finish quality.

Contact us
PIONEERING UV-LIGA

PIONEERING UV-LIGA

Dr Hubert Lorenz invented UV-LIGA technology while he was working on his thesis. He then founded the company in 1998 in Sion, Switzerland. Specialised and recognised in Switzerland and abroad in the fields of microtechnology and micromechanics, Mimotec SA has been working for more than 20 years in the service of excellence.

Get a Quote

UV-LIGA

Read More