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# Micro Component Group to show precision medical metal components at COMPAMED 2026
- URL: https://med-techinsights.com/micro-component-group-to-show-precision-medical-metal-components-at-compamed-2026/
- Published: 2026-11-11T14:51:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-12T15:54:13.000Z
- Description: At COMPAMED 2026, Micro Component Group will exhibit jointly with sister company Auerhammer Metallwerk as part of the wider Wickeder Group presence. Micro Component Group says the next generation of medical devices will not be enabled by miniaturisation alone. They will depend on the right combinati
- Author: Oliver Johnson
- Tags: Medical Device Manufacturing, News, Events

At [**COMPAMED**](https://www.compamed-tradefair.com/en/Visit/What%5Fto%5Fexpect/Reasons%5Fto%5Fattend?%5Fgl=1&gad%5Fsource=1&gad%5Fcampaignid=24163485044&gbraid=0AAAAADHkZEYEup6IT6U2bmIxb8p4OGVAl&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-8XXBhDaARIsADnEOrDMr21SeAflp4E5HwCVBtPun34jkPGA9ZVpA5RGeJ0wjIBz2BRXSuAaAq%5FzEALw%5FwcB&ref=med-techinsights.com) 2026, [**Micro Component Group**](https://www.micrometal.de/en/etching-group/who-we-are/?ref=med-techinsights.com) will exhibit jointly with sister company [**Auerhammer Metallwerk**](https://www.auerhammer.com/en/?ref=med-techinsights.com) as part of the wider [**Wickeder Group**](https://wickeder-group.com/en/?ref=med-techinsights.com) presence. Micro Component Group says the next generation of medical devices will not be enabled by miniaturisation alone. They will depend on the right combination of materials and manufacturing processes, capable of producing smaller, cleaner, and more functional metal components repeatedly and at scale.

Across the Wickeder Group, specialised companies combine capabilities in metallic materials, precision rolling, cladding, and high-precision structuring. For medical device developers, this creates access to a broader engineering platform spanning high-precision metal strip and ultra-thin foils, custom-engineered composite materials, and microstructured components, with support available from initial development concepts through prototypes and small batches to industrial-scale production.

Auerhammer brings particular expertise in precision strips and foils made from nickel and nickel alloys, titanium, stainless steel, and other special alloys, with thicknesses down to 2 µm depending on the material. Tight tolerances and defined mechanical properties, together with corrosion resistance and biocompatibility where the selected material provides them, open opportunities across sensor technology, diagnostics, electrodes, medical electronics, and other miniaturised precision components.

That materials capability is complemented by Micro Component Group’s expertise in photo-chemical etching (PCE). As devices become smaller and more functionally dense, conventional manufacturing routes can introduce precisely the characteristics designers are trying to eliminate: burrs, heat-affected edges, distortion, secondary finishing, and tolerance drift.

PCE approaches the problem differently. Geometry is defined photolithographically and material removed chemically, enabling intricate, stress-free metal parts with fine features, clean edges and high repeatability. Applications range from micro-needles, lancets and surgical features to microfluidic components, filters, meshes, sensor elements, lead-frames and precision apertures.

“Medical device engineers are increasingly asking more of every square millimetre of a component,” says Jochen Kern, Head of Sales & Marketing at the Micro Component Group. “The real opportunity is to bring material selection and process capability together early enough to influence the design. With PCE, that means integrating more function, controlling features precisely and then preserving that performance when production volumes increase.”

This scale-up capability will be a central theme at COMPAMED. Micro Component Group combines agile sheet-based PCE for development with micrometal’s continuous reel-to-reel technology for high-volume manufacture, giving customers a route from early design iteration to industrialisation without fundamentally changing the underlying process logic.

For engineers unfamiliar with PCE, that continuity can be as important as the precision itself. It reduces process-transfer risk, avoids redesign around hard tooling and helps protect validated geometry as programmes move towards commercial production. The wider Micro Component Group platform also includes complementary technologies such as electroforming and laser processing, allowing the manufacturing route to be selected around the application rather than forcing every project through one process.

“The question should no longer simply be, can this component be made?” Kern adds. “The better question is, can the material, geometry, edge condition, tolerance and functional behaviour all be controlled when quantities move from hundreds to millions? That is where the combination of materials knowledge and process architecture becomes critical.”

The joint COMPAMED presence will demonstrate how those capabilities can create useful synergies within the Wickeder Group. By linking materials development and precision rolling with cladding and high-precision structuring, customers can work with the Group to refine solutions for medical devices that are becoming smaller, lighter and more functionally demanding.

At COMPAMED 2026, Micro Component Group invites medical device designers, engineers and OEMs to bring their most demanding precision metal challenges and discuss them at the point where material choice, component geometry, manufacturing process and production scale intersect. The aim is not simply to supply a material or etch a part, but to act as a development partner from concept through to repeatable production