Growing need to differentiate products in the marketplace requires use of various decorative technologies. The need to add decorative metals to products is driven by this need to differentiate end products to the personal taste and expectations of the target end customers.

Consumer products are becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate based on function and consumers are looking now at “how the product” looks as well. Form and function must converge is a package that meets the tastes of the consumer to help win their business.

To help our customers address this need, Laird Technologies has entered into the decorative metals technologies to offer our customers precision metals stamping both for the inside of their products and on the outside of their products as well.

Features and Benefits:
• Provides aesthetic finish or appeal for end products
• Many decorative finished possible on metals
• Longer lasting finish than plastics
• Custom designs to match your application
• RoHS complaint materials

Applications:
• Handsets, smart phones and PDA’s
• Small consumer products enclosures
• Metal based Logo’s
• Almost anywhere you want to increase the aesthetic appeal of a product

Metal Base Materials:
• Stainless steel stamping/drawing
• Aluminum stamping/drawing
• Electroforming
• Titanium stamping/drawing
• Metal die-casting
• Extrusions

Decorative Finishing Technologies:
• Laser decoration
• Electro Polish
• Anodizing
• Diamond cutting
• Plasma Vapor Deposition
• Electro-deposition
• Chrome, gold, other platings
• Painting
• Ni/Cr free coatings