LASER-CUT SMT STENCILS
Stainless-steel stencils for solder-paste printing, laser-cut from your Gerber or ODB++ file and electropolished to a consistent aperture wall — so paste release doesn't vary from board to board.
PRODUCT RANGE
Every format below ships to the same ±5 µm aperture tolerance — the difference is how it's mounted and where it fits in your line.
Foil permanently tensioned onto an aluminum frame — built for repeat production runs on the same board.
Foil only, drops into your existing reusable frame system — lower cost per revision for boards still in flux.
One foil, two or more thicknesses — for boards mixing 0201 passives with connectors in a single print pass.
Same-day or next-day turnaround for a misprint, an urgent ECO, or a repair-station touch-up stencil.
SPEC SHEET
Custom thickness, mesh, and coating available — these are our default production settings.
WHERE IT MATTERS ON THE LINE
One foil, multiple thicknesses — for boards mixing 0201 passives with connectors, without a second print pass.
Cuts paste-side cleaning cycles roughly in half on fine-pitch apertures under 0.4mm pitch.
Held within 30 N/cm² across the panel, checked before it ships.
We flag any aperture below a 0.66 area ratio before cutting, not after your first print run tells you.
HOW A STENCIL GETS MADE
Nothing frames until it clears the inspection stage before it.
Gerber or ODB++ loaded, pad list checked against your BOM and aperture ratios flagged.
Apertures cut to ±5 µm with a tapered wall profile for cleaner paste release.
Removes laser dross and smooths the aperture wall before any coating is applied.
Every panel checked under microscope, tensioned into its frame, and shipped with a certificate of conformance.
THE EQUIPMENT BEHIND THE TOLERANCE
The ±5 µm number only holds because of what's running it — the equipment class behind every panel.
Our primary cutting system runs on German-built laser optics, chosen for beam stability across long production runs rather than peak spec-sheet speed.
Every panel is electropolished on site immediately after cutting — nothing sits in a queue at a third-party finisher.
Frame tension is measured and logged on every panel before it ships, not sampled occasionally.
Every aperture is inspected under magnification before a stencil leaves the building — not a statistical sample.
Illustrative diagram — not the exact machine model.
FROM PROCESS ENGINEERS
Bridging on our 0.3mm pitch parts dropped enough that we pulled the extra AOI check out of the line.
D. Okonkwo — SMT line lead, contract manufacturer
The aperture-ratio flag caught two footprints our own DFM review missed before they got anywhere near the laser.
M. Laurent — process engineer
Step stencil meant one print pass instead of two for our mixed 0201-and-connector board.
A. Whitfield — NPI engineer