Liquid Cooling Plate
Elimold is a professional manufacturer of custom liquid cooling plates, designing and manufacturing them for mission-critical projects as part of a fully integrated thermal management solution. From early design collaboration to production and validation, we help engineering teams control heat, ensure performance, and mitigate project risk. We offer a one-stop service from prototyping to mass production. Contact us now for a free quote.
Custom Liquid Cooling Plate Manufacturer
Liquid cooling plates (LCP) are critical components of liquid cooling systems, and their heat dissipation capacity significantly impacts overall system performance. As a professional LCP manufacturer, we can customize high-quality LCP to meet your specific needs. Our LCP are meticulously designed to perfectly match your heat source requirements and undergo 100% pressure testing at specified psi values. Partnering with Elimold ensures you receive LCP with uniform surface temperatures, low pressure drop, and compatibility with industry-standard coolants such as water or glycol mixtures.
Free Liquid Cooling Plate Design
We offer free design services. Please tell us any specific customization needs you have. Whether it’s heat load, flow requirements, pressure drop (often called flow resistance), product flow channels, product flatness, prevention of electrochemical corrosion between different materials, or product durability, our engineering team will comprehensively consider all factors to tailor a high-quality liquid cooling plate to meet your liquid cooling system needs. Contact us now to cooperate.
How We Help Clients Design Liquid Cooling Plates
We help clients optimize their liquid cooling plate designs through thermal simulation, saving time and costs. If clients lack design experience, we can provide free customized solutions, reducing development time by 30% and R&D costs by 50%. Below is the information needed to begin our collaboration:
Dimensions
Provide the ideal dimensions (e.g., 200x200x15mm) based on your rack dimensions for a customized cooling plate design.
Material
Choose materials such as aluminum to reduce weight and cost, or copper, stainless steel for corrosion resistance in specific environments.
Heat Dissipation Capacity
Sharing chip power and PCB locations allows us to design custom flow channels and microchannels for effective cooling.
Ambient Temperature
Please inform us of the operating ambient temperature (typically 35-45°C) for accurate simulation setup and thermal management.
Liquid Inlet Temperature and Flow Rate
Specify the liquid inlet temperature and flow rate to optimize the cooling channels for optimal heat transfer efficiency.
Customized Liquid Cooling Plates to Your Needs
Elimold specializes in customizing liquid cooling plates to meet your system requirements. In addition to common aluminum and copper materials, we also offer stainless steel cold plates suitable for extreme temperatures or corrosive coolants. We support customization of water block geometry, including overall dimensions, channel layout, channel cross-section, contact area, interface location, and thickness distribution. Channel layout typically involves custom designs for series channels, parallel channels, tubing, and manifolds. Standard thicknesses range from 3-20 mm, but other sizes are also available.
Our Production Process
Demand Analysis and Design
Material Selection
Processing and Manufacturing
Surface Treatment
Precision Requirements
Turn Your Specifications into High-Quality Products
We specialize in manufacturing a comprehensive range of custom heat exchangers and thermal components based on your designs. Reliable quality, built to your exact requirements.
What is a Liquid Cooling Plate?
A liquid cooling plate is the core heat exchange component of a liquid cooling system, consisting of a copper or aluminum substrate with internal microchannels. It works by circulating a coolant (such as water or a glycol solution) within these channels, absorbing heat generated by the chip (such as a CPU or GPU) (a single chip can support up to 1000W of power), and then transferring the heat to the external environment through a coolant distribution unit. Because the liquid cooling plate is in direct contact with the heat source, its thermal resistance can be as low as 0.02–0.05°C/W.
Liquid Cooling Plate Types and Technologies
The performance requirements of liquid cooling plates typically determine the choice of cooling plate manufacturing process and design, which in turn affects cost. Generally, higher performance cold plates result in higher costs. The main types of cold plates include pressure tube cold plates (also known as high-contact cold plates), gun-drilled cold plates, channel cold plates, and brazed cold plates. Channel shapes in cold plates can be manufactured through CNC machining, extrusion molding, and friction welding. Depending on the welding method, cold plate processing channels can be categorized into vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, etc. The fins within the channels can also be classified into various types based on the processing technology, such as profile fins, scraped fins, and welded fins.
Copper Tube Cold Plate
Stainless Steel Cold Plate
Vacuum Brazed Cold Plate
Stamped Brazed Cold Plate
Friction Stir Welded Cold Plate
Serpentine Battery Cold Plates
Vapor Chamber Cold Plate
Cold Plate with Embedded Heat Pipes
Comprehensive Liquid Cooling Plate Manufacturing Solutions
Elimold possesses extensive knowledge of thermal solutions, offering not only meticulously crafted products but also value-added services such as engineering consulting and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based thermal analysis. This expertise translates into designs optimized for specific industry needs, resulting in superior thermal management and extended lifespan. Elimold’s engineers and manufacturing team have a deep understanding of the complexities of materials science, manufacturing processes, and quality control standards. This ensures that the final product meets stringent tolerances and satisfies even the most challenging application requirements. Furthermore, partnering with Elimold ensures you receive a custom design tailored to your specific technical specifications. Whether it’s adjusting channel dimensions, selecting materials, or integrating advanced thermal resistance characteristics, we can tailor solutions to your project. Rigorous quality control, timely delivery, and competitive pricing further highlight the strategic advantage of an experienced supplier in enhancing your business operations.
A Leading Manufacturer of Cold Plate Radiators
Our company adheres to a scientific research and development-based approach, designing water-cooling solutions tailored to customer needs. Each solution undergoes rigorous thermodynamic analysis, providing strong theoretical support. Through professional simulation calculations and by combining them with the actual needs of our customers, we strive to provide them with the most comprehensive products. Our company possesses multiple professional production lines, enabling us to offer a one-stop service for the design and production of high-power, high-density semiconductor water-cooled radiators, tailored to customer requirements.
End-to-End Custom Liquid Cooling Plate Service
Leveraging Elimold’s extensive manufacturing experience, we offer end-to-end custom liquid cooling plate services. Working closely with our clients to tackle complex design challenges, our liquid cooling plates are tailored to your specific needs, a result of a collaborative design process. Our experienced team of engineers utilizes advanced 3D modeling and simulation tools to ensure that every detail of the liquid cooling plate, from shape and size to internal fluid channel layout, is optimized for your unique application. Whether your application is in data center servers, electric vehicle battery packs, or high-performance power electronics, we possess the technical expertise to provide reliable and precise cooling solutions.
Liquid Cooling Plate Manufacturing Process
The manufacturing process is the bridge between design and reality, directly affecting product performance, consistency, and cost. Various manufacturing processes are applicable to the production of liquid cooling plates. Currently, the mainstream processes are CNC machining and brazing.
CNC Machining
Brazing
Friction Stir Welding (FSW)
Metal 3D Printing
Global Supply Chain Capabilities
Elimold provides manufacturing services to customers in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region through its ISO 9001-certified factory in China. Our annual capacity exceeds 900,000 units, and we support both prototyping (minimum order quantity 5 units, lead time 7-15 days) and high-volume production (lead time 4-6 weeks). All products come with complete export documentation, ensuring smooth customs clearance in the destination country. Elimold designs and manufactures customized liquid-cooled plate solutions for data centers, electric vehicles, power electronics, and industrial systems. Our engineering team provides customers with full support from initial thermal simulation to prototype verification and mass production.
Rapidly Response Production
We understand the importance of thermal management, enabling us to quickly prototype and produce solutions. This ensures customers receive customized liquid cooling plates as quickly as possible, accelerating product development and shortening time-to-market. Our streamlined production processes and dedicated team ensure precise and efficient development of your thermal solutions from design to delivery.
Liquid Cooling Plate Manufacturing Plant and Engineering Team
We have a 91,000 square foot main plant equipped with industry-leading equipment, enabling us to offer you not only competitive prices but also flexible production planning to ensure on-time radiator delivery. Our engineers have over 10 years of experience in the radiator industry, our staff have been with our company for over 8 years, and our sales team is available 24/7 to solve your problems. Our R&D engineers all hold bachelor’s degrees and have completed the design of over 500 radiator and cooling plate projects, with 97% prototyping and 85% entering mass production.
Quality Assurance
We believe that in mission-critical thermal management, there is no room for “good enough.” To ensure every cold plate we deliver meets the industry’s gold standard, we have built a quality system to meet the rigorous requirements of IATF 16949 and ISO 9001.
- Dimensional check
- Flatness Test
- Air Tightness Test
- Flow Rate
- Thermal Cycling
- Salt Spray Test
- Water-immersion Ultrasonic Scan
- Ultrasonic
- Helium inspection
- High pressure inspection
- Flow channel cleaning
- Thermal and pressure drop testing
- Vacuum drying
- Pressure maintaining testing
Testing & Certifications
Every cold plate is tested for leak-free performance and dimensional accuracy before shipment. We won’t proceed to volume tooling until prototype validation passes.
100% Helium Leak Testing
Every unit tested. Helium leak detection is the most sensitive commercially available method for ensuring leak-free performance.
CMM Dimensional Inspection
Critical dimensions verified by coordinate measuring machine, including flatness tolerance at the thermal interface surface.
Burst Pressure
Hydrostatic burst pressure testing exceeding rated working pressure for structural verification.
FAI Reports
Full first-article dimensional and functional inspection report for first production batch.
Weld/Braze QC
Visual and cross-section inspection of FSW seams and brazing joints.
SPC Monitoring
Statistical process control on critical dimensions with CPK targets for volume runs.
Material Options
Most of our liquid cooling plates use 3003 aluminum alloy. We also offer 6061, 1060, and copper for applications with higher conductivity or strength requirements. We work with a broad range of materials to meet thermal performance, weight, and environmental requirements:
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Stainless steel
- Copper-nickel (CuNi) alloys
Liquid Cooling Plates Surface Finishes
Anodizing
Conductive Anodizing
Nickel Plating
Custom Liquid Cooling Plate Applications
EV Battery Pack Cooling
ESS Module Cooling
IGBT / SiC Cooling
Server & GPU Cooling
Industrial Machinery
Medical
Looking For Reliable, High-quality Liquid Cooling Plate Manufacturing Solutions To Meet Your Business Needs?
Elimold has focused on liquid cooling plate ODM and OEM for over 15 years. Our in-house factory can customize and manufacture a wide variety of liquid cooling plates, and we have designed and produced over 5,000 different shapes. If you have any heatsink needs, please contact us. Simply tell us your requirements. Our engineering team will respond within 4 hours with design solutions and quotations.