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Your next big idea, no matter how small.

The Valley Design Difference

From ideation to final inspection, we're an advanced material processing and machining partner ready for your project's complex requirements. Our industry-certified technical team is ready to ensure your project's tightest tolerances are adhered to on the strict deadline you need. We've engineered some of the world's most complex problems, finding solutions within our area of expertise.


Here are some of the top reasons why thousands of organizations have trusted Valley Design with their big ideas:

  • We're a family owned and operated business in our second generation of leadership.
  • Our one-stop shop ability to offer lapping, polishing, CNC milling, and other advanced material machining capabilities in-house within our 30,000 square foot facility
  • Our use of Keyence metrology equipment to verify, inspect, and ensure precision at every step of the process
  • Our CEO, founder, and consulting leader has worked on large-scale engineering projects in his career, including helping send Apollo 11 to the moon.
  • Our work has been trusted by some of the world's top innovators, such as NASA
  • Our team can support quick ideation and will pivot to your project's demanding needs.


One-Stop Shop Experience

Valley Design is a true one-stop shop, offering an entire catalog of services to help fuel your innovation.

Some of our services include (click a service name below to expand):

Precision lapping and polishing services on all types of materials both hard and soft has been a specialty of Valley Design for over 50 years. We operate over 100 single and double-sided lapping and polishing machines ranging in size from 12”,18”,24” 28”, 32” 36”48”and 64” diameters producing parts from as small as .127mm (.005”) sq. to 450mm diameter and larger. Depending on the material, lapped finishes can range from 10-25u” Ra. Polished surfaces on ceramics can range from 0.3 -3u” Ra, and optical finishes on fused silica and glass can be as good as 3A Ra.

Valley Design is a high precision CNC machining company, focusing on rapid, high quality on-demand 3, 4 and 5 axis CNC machining services. Our CNC department provides full CNC machining services from custom prototyping to full production manufacturing on a wide variety of hard and soft materials. Materials CNC machined include Alumina ceramics, Aluminum Nitride, Fused Silica, Glass, Sapphire, Silicon Carbide SiC, and Silicon Silicon-Carbide SiSiC. Our custom CNC machining capabilities combined with 50 years of diamond tool and fixturing expertise make us the industry standard for excellence, quality and precision for complex CNC machined components.

Our dicing services can cover all your needs from prototypes to production dicing services. With 15 K&S and DISCO dicing saws, we have one of the highest diamond dicing volume capacity in the industry. Silicon die from as small as .127mm square to Silicon stacks as high as 6.25mm can be diced, as well as a wide variety of hard materials including Fused Silica, Glass, Aluminum Nitride, Alumina ceramics, Sapphire, Silicon Carbide SiC, Silicon Silicon-Carbide (SiSiC) and many others.

Valley Design understands the importance of precision in microelectronic devices substrates. In our 50 years of experience, we’ve delivered a multitude of important semiconductor materials for electronics, and we’re pleased to include 450-mm silicon wafers. We offer 300mm and 450mm diameter wafer back grinding, lapping and polishing services on a wide variety of materials such as ceramics, glass, Fused Silica and Sapphire.

Valley Design provides lapping and polishing services of flat mechanical seals, pump parts, valve seats and discs. Valve components made from a large variety of materials include Hastelloy, Inconel, Monel, Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel, Copper, Nickel, Ceramics, Glass, Sapphire, Macor and many exotic materials. We have even polished large wind tunnels for NASA.

Over the years, Valley Design has served as a resource to its customers on Research & Development projects and provided technical support to the leading research institutions and labs worldwide. These include such distinguished technology centers as Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Almos National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Sandia National Lab, Army Research Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Rutherford Appleton Lab (UK) and Max Planck Institute (Germany).

Our capabilities in providing precision machining services make us a world-leading company in precision materials engineering and manufacturing. For nearly 50 years, our services have grown and evolved with the changing trends in precision material engineering and manufacturing. Our in-depth experience with components needed in the manufacturing of electro-static chucks (ESD) for the semiconductor industry, combined with our 3, 4 and 5 axis CNC machining services put Valley Design at the cutting edge of technology. We also offer CNC hole drilling, optical edge polishing services and small diameter core drilling.



Materials We Machine

Our skilled technicians have the knowledge and expertise necessary to machine your project's complex material needs.

Some of the materials we machine include (click a material type below to expand):

  • 96%, 99.5%, and 99.6% Alumina
  • Aluminum Nitride (AlN)
  • Macor
  • Sapphire (R-Plane, C-Plane, A-Plane)
  • Silicon Carbide
  • Steatite

  • Borofloat
  • Borosilicate Glass
  • Fused Quartz and Single Crystal Quartz
  • Fused Silica (Si02)
  • Optical Glass (including, but not limited to, B270, D263, Eagle XG, Gorilla Glass, Supremax Glass, Xensation Glass)
  • Polarcor
  • Pyrex 7740
  • Soda Lime Glass

  • Aluminum
  • Copper
  • Ferrites
  • Hastelloy
  • Inconel
  • Molybdenum
  • Stainless Steel
  • Titanium
  • Tungsten

  • Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
  • Delrin
  • High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
  • Nylon
  • Polycarbonate
  • Polypropylene
  • Polyimide and PEEK
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
  • Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
  • Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE)

  • Germanium
  • Indium Phosphide (InP)
  • Lithium Fluoride (LiF)
  • Silicon
  • Zinc Selenide (ZnSe)
  • Zinc Sulfide (ZnS)

We invite you to contact our Technical Team using the contact form on this page to inquire about your project's material needs.


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