Custom Liquid Cooling Cold Plates

We engineer and manufacture liquid cooling cold plates around your heat load, flow target, pressure drop, envelope, mounting pattern, sealing method, and production volume. Our team connects thermal requirements with a practical machining, joining, finishing, inspection, and leak-testing route.

Machined liquid cooling plate with sealing channels

Custom Liquid Cooling Plates for Thermal Management

A cold plate is not only a machined block with channels. Channel geometry, contact flatness, coolant compatibility, port position, sealing, joining method, pressure capability, and installation load all influence performance. We review the full assembly before selecting the manufacturing route.

For prototypes, we help identify the fastest construction that can validate thermal and hydraulic behavior. For production, we focus on repeatable channel geometry, controlled joining, traceable leak testing, clean internal passages, and stable mounting interfaces.

Plate size
Up to 600 × 600 mm
Flatness
Down to 0.05 mm
Channel width
From 1.0 mm
Leak testing
Pressure and helium options
Materials
6061, 6082, C110
Finishes
Anodizing, nickel plating, passivation

Liquid Cooling Cold Plate Types

We select the construction method according to heat flux, pressure, channel complexity, cleanliness, material, joining risk, and expected production volume.

Vacuum-Brazed Cold Plate

Vacuum-Brazed Cold Plate

Internal fins and channels are enclosed through controlled brazing for high heat-transfer area and compact flow paths.

Friction-Stir-Welded Cold Plate

Friction-Stir-Welded Cold Plate

A machined channel cover is joined with low distortion and no filler metal, supporting strong aluminum thermal assemblies.

Tube-in-Plate Cold Plate

Tube-in-Plate Cold Plate

Copper or stainless tubing is embedded into a machined aluminum plate for practical routing and fluid isolation.

Deep-Hole-Drilled Cold Plate

Deep-Hole-Drilled Cold Plate

Intersecting drilled passages create sealed internal circuits for robust blocks, manifolds, and compact tooling plates.

Liquid Cooling Cold Plate Design Review

We start with the heat source and assembly, then work inward toward the flow path. This keeps thermal performance, pressure integrity, manufacturability, and inspection connected.

Machined cold plate design reference

Heat Source and Contact Area

We review heat flux, component footprint, thermal interface material, mounting load, and allowable temperature rise.

Channel and Pressure Drop

Channel width, depth, turns, fins, inlet distribution, and coolant viscosity are balanced against pump capability.

Sealing and Joining

O-ring grooves, cover plates, brazed joints, weld paths, ports, and pressure boundaries are reviewed together.

Flatness and Installation

Machining sequence, joining heat, finishing thickness, mounting pattern, and final inspection affect contact flatness.

Materials and Surface Finishes for Liquid Cooling Plates

We match thermal conductivity, corrosion behavior, coolant chemistry, weight, joining compatibility, and finish requirements to the operating environment.

6061 Aluminum

Our common choice for machinability, low mass, thermal performance, anodizing response, and broad material availability.

Copper C110

Selected where very high thermal conductivity justifies additional weight, cost, and surface-protection considerations.

Stainless Steel

Used for corrosion resistance, pressure hardware, fittings, and applications where coolant compatibility is critical.

Protective Finishes

Anodizing, electroless nickel plating, passivation, conversion coating, and selective masking are reviewed against the coolant loop.

Liquid Cooling Cold Plate Manufacturing and Quality Control

We define inspection and testing before production so critical thermal, hydraulic, and assembly features remain connected to the drawing.

  • CMM inspection for mounting patterns, ports, datums, profile, and sealing geometry
  • Flatness and surface-finish verification on thermal contact faces
  • Pressure decay, hydrostatic, or helium leak testing according to project risk
  • Internal cleaning, drying, protection, and packaging for fluid circuits
  • Material certificates, finishing records, first-article and dimensional reports
Cold plate quality inspection and finishing reference

Liquid Cooling Cold Plate Applications

We manufacture custom cold plates for systems where thermal density, package size, reliability, and serviceability demand a controlled liquid path.

AI and Data Center Hardware

Cold plates, manifolds, and interfaces for CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and high-density server platforms.

Power Electronics

Cooling plates for IGBT modules, inverters, converters, chargers, and energy-storage systems.

Semiconductor Equipment

Temperature-control hardware for process tools, vacuum equipment, test systems, and precision stages.

Industrial and Medical Systems

Compact liquid cooling for lasers, imaging equipment, laboratory instruments, and automated machinery.

Discuss Your Liquid Cooling Cold Plate Project

Send us your drawing, material, quantity, and quality requirements.
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