The World’s Leading Ultrasonic Machining Company
We provide unique machining & drilling solutions for hard, brittle, and specialty materials, so your team doesn’t have to compromise its design.
ISO 9001 Certified
AS9100 Certified
IATF 16949 Compliant
ITAR Registered
Traditional Machining Limits Shouldn’t Hold You Back
Now they don’t have to.
ABOUT Ultrasonic Machining
WHAT IS ULTRASONIC MACHINING?
Ultrasonic machining is a loose abrasive machining process in which the mirror image of a shaped tool can be created in hard, brittle materials.
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Features and Patterns Possible
Bullen can machine a limitless number of different cuts and shapes, including:
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- Round Holes
- Rectangular Holes
- Odd-shaped holes
- Slots
- Blind Cuts
- Cavities
- OD and ID Work
Features ranging in size from 0.008″ up to several inches are possible in small workpieces, wafers, larger substrates, and material blanks.
Aspect ratios as high as 60-to-1 are possible, depending on the material type and feature size.
Applications
Ultrasonic machining broadens the possibilities for your projects
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- Tight-tolerance round thru-holes for semiconductor processing equipment components
- Micromachined and micro-structured glass wafers for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) applications
- Features machined into Ceramic Matrix Composites for Aerospace manufacturing
Advantages of Ultrasonic Machining
Bullen’s Ultrasonic Machining process had many advantages over traditional machining.
The process is non-thermal, non-chemical, and non-electrical, leaving the chemical and physical properties of the workpiece unchanged. This low-stress process translates into high reliability for your critical applications.
High-aspect ratio thru-vias; 60-to-1 aspect ratios are possible in glass and advanced ceramic.
Unlike many competing laser and abrasive blasting processes, ultrasonic machining is able to provide vertical sidewalls, so you don’t have to compromise on your design.
The process integrates well with semiconductor ceramics and MEMS Machined features, and it can be aligned to previously patterned, machined, or etched substrates.
PARTNERING WITH
GLOBAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
FOR OVER 50 YEARS
Fortune 50 Companies
Aerospace & Defense Companies
Mems & Microsystem Developers
Medical & Life Sciences Organizations
Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers
Materials We Machine
Glass
Fused Silica: HPFS® Corning 7980, Schott Lithosil®
Quartz
BK7, Soda Lime, and other glass materials
Glass Ceramics
Macor
ULE Glass
Technical Ceramics
Aluminum
Nitride
Boron Carbide
Silicon Carbide
Silicon Nitride
Zirconia
Yttria
Sialon
Ferrite
Titanium Nitride
Engineered Ceramics
Converted SiC
PCD
Ceramic Composites (CMC)
Single Crystals
Germanium
Sapphire
Spinel
SiC
Calcium Fluoride
Engineered Plastic
PMMA
Bismaleimide
Polystyrene
Polycarbonate
A Simple Process to Solve Your Complex Engineering Need
1
Talk to Our Team
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plan
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Prototype & pilot
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produce
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