Machining of Glass and Ceramics

Machining of glass and ceramics

Glass prisms

Machin­ing of opti­cal glass prisms with extreme angu­lar pre­ci­sion below 2 arc sec­onds, also for large prisms. Rough­ing and fin­ish­ing in one set-up on 5‑axis and respec­tive­ly 3‑axis machine

Test workpiece for flow cell made of zirconium oxide,

sta­bi­lized ZrO2 – Y2O3, about 25 mm x 25 mm, Vick­ers hard­ness HV 10: 13 GPA

Machining of glass for medical applications

Also very tiny con­tours, e.g. flu­id chan­nels, may be machined with high pre­ci­sion in glass.

Sample part for glass machining

Free form sur­faces and oth­er con­tours machined into a glass work­piece in one set-up