Next-Generation Mesh and Sieve Designs for Critical Applications Using PCE
By removing metal chemically rather than mechanically, PCE produces burr-free, stress-free features with consistent edge definition, reducing particle traps, simplifying cleaning and sterilisation, and improving reliability under cyclic load.
(3rd August 2026, Muellheim, Germany) Filtration is being redefined now. Higher pressures, tighter cleanliness standards, and smaller system envelopes are turning "a mesh" into a mission-critical performance component, whether it sits inside a diagnostic cartridge, a fuel cell stack, a precision pump, or a semiconductor tool. In that world, geometry isn't a detail, it's the product.
"Engineers want to tune filtration like they tune electronics, deliberately, predictably, and at scale," says Jochen Kern, Head of Sales & Marketing at the Micro Component Group. "PCE lets you control open area, aperture shape, pitch, and even surface channel structures in ways conventional methods struggle to reproduce, especially when volumes rise and variability becomes expensive."
For manufacturers new to PCE, the surprise is often twofold. First, complexity is largely digital. Intricate arrays, graded porosity, and application-specific patterns can be achieved without hard tooling penalties. Second, PCE supports prototype-to-production continuity. You can validate performance on sheet-based routes, then scale to high-volume production without redesign, avoiding the "it worked in prototypes" moment.
This is where the Micro Component Group is structurally different. With micrometal GmbH's world-unique continuous reel-to-reel etching at the core, complemented by agile sheet processing and additional technologies such as electroforming and laser processing across the Group, customers get one integrated platform for development and industrialisation. The result is fewer supplier handovers, fewer handling defects at scale, and a clearer path from design intent to repeatable output.
Across medical, industrial, automotive, energy, and high-tech filtration, PCE-enabled meshes and sieves can be thinner, stronger, and more functional with higher-pressure capability, more stable flow behaviour, and designs that integrate filtering with features for mounting, sealing, or downstream assembly.
"Filtration performance is increasingly a competitive differentiator," Kern adds. "If your mesh geometry is limited by your process, you're leaving efficiency and reliability on the table."
The Micro Component Group invites engineers and OEMs to explore what next-generation filtration can look like when geometry, repeatability, and scalability are truly engineered in from day one.
www.micrometal.de
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