United Western Enterprises

Our Mission

United Western Enterprises strives to provide customers with thin metal parts and graphic film which meet the customers design expectations, delivery schedule and satisfaction. This is accomplished by people of high integrity through effective customer service and continual process improvement at a price that will ensure the customer the best value available.

photochemically machined flat pieces

Applications

United Western Enterprises has produced thousands of different parts. Some applications are:

  • RFI/EMI Shielding
  • Flat Springs
  • Masks
  • Brackets
  • Shims/Spacer
  • Lead Frames
  • Covers & Lids
  • Decorative
  • Screens
  • Laminations
  • Optical
  • Encoder Wheels
  • Heatsinks
  • Apertures
  • Interconnects

There are many other applications we produce that originate from thin metals.

miscellaneous photochemically machined pieces

The United Western Advantage

The advantage of United Western's photochemically machined parts include:

  • Forming, Plating and Heat Treating available
  • Almost unlimited complexity of configuration
  • Low cost tooling with fast turnaround
  • Mechanical properties of metals are undisturbed
  • Burr free
  • No tool wear - guaranteed repeatability
  • Thin foils etched without any distortion
  • Changes can be made to parts without incurring additional costly hard tooling charges

Customers

United Western Enterprises provides numerous industries with small, intricate, close tolerance metal parts. Some of the markets we serve include:

  • Aerospace/Defense
  • Automotive
  • Electronics
  • Computer
  • Optical
  • Entertainment
  • Semiconductor
  • Microwave
  • Medical
  • Decorative
  • Metal Stampers
  • Machine Shops

Our Production Process

photochemically machined boxesThe production process combines computer aided design (CAD), photography and chemistry to provide our customers with a cost effective method of creating parts quickly without incurring the high cost of hard tooling.