Marking Services
T.U.S. offers you the option to mark your parts for you. A marking experience of more than 3 decades, independent from technologies and methods, leads to the best result for your products.
We cover all part marking standards for a variety of marking technologies, especially military, aircraft or medical standards, most of which we have on file. Our experiences reach from plain and curved inscriptions to pictures and serialized inscriptions. We mark on surfaces with difficult forms including circular marks and marks on round shapes. All metals and alloys are covered.
T.U.S. marks batch sizes from 1 piece to 10,000 or more. Turnaround times are considerably short: Batch sizes of 750 parts or less usually ship within 2 work days. For very urgent matters we offer overnight and weekend marking services. Upon your request we ship these pieces to your customer directly.
- Consider our custom marking service if you are under time pressure
- Consider our custom marking service if your marking volume is not steady enough to justify the investment in machinery and training of personnel.
- Consider our custom marking service if you are not sure which marking method is optimal for you and you want to test different technologies.
- Consider T.U.S. custom marking for a cost advantage.
T.U.S. has all the experience and the equipment you may have to acquire. We have a steady flow of Custom Marking orders that range from catheter tubes of 0.02″ diameter to 30″ long surgical implants. We cover marks on all industry and household pieces from valves and screws to surgical tools and chef knives.
Electro-Chemical Etching
Electro-Chemical Etching is a marking method that etches a perfectly high contrast, non removable marks into any material that conducts electricity. It does not heat up the material and does not weaken or alter the microstructure of the material. The method as well as the machinery are not harmful to personnel or the environment.
Electro-Chemical Etching is a process that is extremely fast and considerably cheaper than other marking methods. It is known as bringing out great details accompanied by a fast batch setup, which makes it a common marking method for cutlery, ball bearings, medical instruments, aircraft parts, tools and so on.
Sandblast marking
TUS can accomplish the part identification and serialization for parts to be marked by sandblasting, also called grid blast marking. We have all common marking standards for aerospace or defense parts on hand. Our expertise ranges from regular inscriptions to 2d-barcodes. We can mark all surface shapes from straight to round or spheric.
TUS has an extensive sandblast marking operation and we cooperate with a multitude of aircraft and turbine manufacturers.
Paint Marking
TUS offers marking services with ink and paint. We can screen print or ink stamp your parts. Military as well as industrial standards are covered. We can screen print on flat and curved shapes.
CNC engraving
We perform CNC engraving on our CNC machines. The available techniques are drag engraving and rotary engraving. The depth of the mark will be determined by your requirements or the standards that are applicable, typically ‘method 3’ in common Aerospace standards like AS478.
Custom Marking orders of up to 1,000 pieces typically ship within 2-4 days.
Laser Marking
TUS offers laser marking of industrial products as a service. We have long history of laser marking for medical, defense and manufacturing companies.
TUS offers Laser Marking for metal parts – parts that can be marked with a fiber laser.
F.A.Q.
Frequently asked questions Marking Services
After we have received your parts we will send you a proof. The proof is a photo which shows the mark (printed onto a transparency) on your part as we plan to mark it. Once you have approved this image we will give the order into production. You will receive an anticipated lead-time with your quote.
Please send us an email on our contact page or via the email link on the bottom of each page. Please include a drawing or a sketch and the anticipated quantity.