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Fotofab is a leading supplier of chemically etched metal parts. Founded in 1967 by Howard Friedman, Fotofab is a privately-owned manufacturing company located in Chicago.
Fotofab supplies unique metal parts with a process called photochemical machining, or chemical etching, to companies in the aerospace, medical, electronics, automotive, telecommunications, and food processing equipment industries.
Noteworthy metal parts manufactured by Fotofab include face plates used in F-14 Tomcat and A-6 Intruder military aircraft, precision metal screens used for straining tomatoes to mass-produce ketchup, precision thin metal parts used in defibrillators for pre-mature babies, and pre-production R&D parts for consumer products like the Motorola RAZR V3 phone keypads.
Fotofab is also the exclusive manufacturer of stainless steel automobile gauge face overlays including custom gauge faces for prominent sports figures such as Shaquille O'Neal and NFL players Koren Robinson and Shawn Springs.
