About | Jacobsen Lenticular Tool & Cylinder Engraving Technologies Co. and JacoTech Custom Copper Plating Roll Manufacturing Services / Chicago

About | Jacobsen Lenticular Tool & Cylinder Engraving Technologies Co. (JacoTech) / www. JacoTech.com / Chicago

Since year 2003, JacoTech located in the Chicago suburban area continues to be an (open commercial job shop welcoming new customers in all industries globally) offering our advanced optical engineering, lens designs, lighting system optimizations and large-scale sized machining services and associated technologies. This fact makes it possible for our optical and custom patterned mold engraving clients to offer their own special interest products to their own markets not made possible before.

In the past and still today, other in-house mold making machine shops owned by the major known lighting and lens film product companies are (closed shops) and are unavailable to the public. The major players do not want to help place new competitors in their marketplace as their patents expire, so they will not accept outside work purchase orders. They remain secretive closed shops only serving themselves.

JacoTech manufacturing services are offered for hire publically, and now level the playing field for new products/brands of private companies to be introduced and enter/compete within the growing huge specialty optical lighting structure and lens film sheet and roll material markets.

Coming Soon 2022: JacoTech Custom Copper Plating Manufacturing Co.

In-House Custom Copper Plating Formulation and Techniques for Plating Rolls/Drums/Cylinders/Mandrels to 15" Outer Diameter x 40" Wide. Designed for CNC Diamond Turned Engraved and Micro-Machined Patterns Requiring Malleable Machinable Copper Plated Surfaces. As North America's Sole Supplier of this Optical Grade Custom Coating too Rolls, We Offer Our New Plating Services to the Open Public. Inquire to Gary Jacobsen at [email protected]. 1-630-467-0900.

Today

Today, the plastic processing industry continues to seek improvement in lowering its manufacturing costs and maximizing company profit margins by increasing its output on larger sized machinery for higher-volume plastic/polymer products production, such as retroreflective vehicle license plates and road/traffic signage using three/four-sided corner-cube prismatic materials. In one example JacoTech created a unique method of direct engraving precision cubic corner pyramids direct into cylinders that can be used to create prismatic materials in roll web form at full plastic processing machine line speeds. The material manufacturing cost savings of using recent advanced prismatic web roll production vs. prior art of costly and slow injection molding, or slow casting and similar one-by-one piece production methods is quite impressive.

In order to offer "value added to our customers", JacoTech continually "pushes the envelope" to the limits of technology and pattern designs through its own internal testing utilizing small-scale JacoTech laboratory test cylinders.

This ongoing R&D lets JacoTech comply or surpass with the ever evolving international specification standards for optical-based light management products and devices.

Customer Driven

JacoTech is both scientific and customer driven. In order to support and offer value-added to its customers, JacoTech continually seeks to develop new micro-machining patterns and light management patterned designs to enhance their customer’s plastic processing business, which may include not only imaged lenticular 3D & Motion/Animated lenticular lens displays, but luminaires, structured lighting devices, pipe lighting, specialized automotive/aerospace/outer space lighting components, embossed patterns, reflectors, abrasives/grains/powders and many more custom applications.

JacoTech is not simply an engraved cylinder plastic mold supplier, but a leader in creative advanced development being receptive to its customers’ needs, thereby building a mutual trustful partnership in contrast to the typical supplier-customer relationship. Helping to make its customers successful is a primary goal of JacoTech.

Striving for Perfection

The success of JacoTech has been due to its continual striving for perfection in providing consistent and repeatable quality from one engraved roll to the next engraved roll. As a consequence, JacoTech has a consistent and growing repeat customer base including ISO 9001 and 9002 certified plastics manufacturers.

The company's major presence on the Internet and advertisings placed in major international and domestic plastics processing print publications allows many potential clients to learn about JacoTech, but most of its new business comes from word of mouth, which is the best advertising and compliment in the world.

Continually Evolving

JacoTech is continually evolving and carefully expanding year-to-year as a consequence of new emerging optically-based plastics market opportunities. Since JacoTech is proactive rather than being reactive, it has plans in 2022 of installing an optical grade copper machinable plating equipment line to support the CNC diamond turning industry and plastic sheet/roll processing industries.

Additional sales offices around the globe will be opened through employees and company authorized/approved independent sales agents and global trading companies to help better serve the specialty optical plastic material processing sectors.

Contact

Dr. Gary A. Jacobsen, Chief Engineer and Founder - [email protected] / 1-630-467-0900 / www.JacoTech.com