F1 & Automotive

Accelerating the Automotive Industry

ACE manufactures a wide range of F1 and automotive components for luxury and premium vehicle (tier 1 and tier 2) suppliers across the UK and Europe.

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Precision Automotive & F1 Etching

Components we produce for Automotive and F1 include busbars, connectors, safety-critical ABS braking, fuel system management devices and high-end speaker grilles.

Driving Innovation In Electric Vehicles

ACE prides itself on helping to drive the evolution of the automotive industry with the development of the next generation of new (EV) electric vehicles.

Transforming Formula 1 Concepts Into Reality

We also undertake the development of groundbreaking ideas created in the fertile minds of Formula 1 designers and engineers.

ACE is the #1 chemical etching partner for Automotive and F1

Electric Vehicles

We are producing components ranging from battery interconnects, fuel cell plates, cooling plates, kinetic energy recovery system components & electric vehicle bus bars.

Quality Assurance

ACE operates a continuous improvement programme that works in tandem with our clients to satisfy their quality requirements, including APQP (FMEA, SPC, MSA and PPAP). This is backed up by using process control data and part measurement results to deliver consistent etched components within Six Sigma levels.

All measurements are carried out using industry-leading 3D CMM machines or 3D microscopes to verify physical sizes, etched feature 3D shapes and surface roughness.

Customer Focused

We can offer our experience in metals and processes to help customers keep costs down during the development stage. Investment in new state-of-the-art machining centres at our sister business ACE Forming has delivered faster turnaround times and more capacity.

Growth In Renewables

This is having a major impact on the sector and ACE is already developing cooling plates, motor laminations and fuel cell plates to take advantage of these new opportunities.

Etched Prototypes

ACE can provide automotive and F1 prototypes to designers and engineers within hours of receiving CAD data. This means our customers can keep ahead of their competition when redesigning products. We use the same machines and process technology to produce parts from prototype phase to serial production.

Aerospace Parts Etching Grade Metals

(*) All grades and hardness
Steel*
Stainless
steel*
Aluminium
alloys
Copper alloys
Nickel alloys
Titanium alloys

Types of etched components supplied

Power
components
Speaker grilles
ABS flexures
Contacts/
terminals
Diaphragm
springs
Kinetic energy
recovery system
components
Busbars for
Electric Vehicles
Precision shims
& gaskets
Fuel injector
discs
Actuators
RFI Shielding
Springs for
fuel management
systems
Dashboard
backlighting
filtration
Fuel circuits
Tread plates
Leadframes
for electronic
packages
Motor
Laminations
Fuel cell plates
Cylinder head
gaskets

News and Insights

November 26, 2024

ACE Chemical Etching at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics, 4th to 6th February 2025

August 20, 2024

AS9100 accreditation helps ACE fly high with £1m of new aerospace opportunities

November 24, 2023

Advanced Chemical Etching – Metal Matters October 2023

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