Platinum Tooling Named North American Distributor for Tecnicrafts

Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc. now sells products from Tecnicrafts Industries, a manufacturer of collets and guide bushings for Swiss Type CNC Lathes.

Tecnicrafts is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company with state-of-the-art machine tools and 115 technicians. Its manufacturing plant is in South India. Tecnicrafts collets and guide bushings are exclusively used for Swiss Turning applications on Citizen-Cincom, Tsugami, Star, Tornos, Hanwha, Traub, Hardinge, Manurhin-Kmx, Miyano, Nomura and other popular machine brands and are widely recognized and accepted by customers in Europe and Asia.

The collets are offered in steel and carbide lined versions with Grooved, Smooth, Serrated Bores in Standard and Long Nose Types. Tecnicrafts produces special collets such as V-Line, U-Line, and Over-grip Collets, for positive gripping of delicate parts without marks. The ultra precision (XP) W-Type collets are available for tool grinding applications on machines like Rollomatic, Anca, Ewag and others. Other collets offered include 5C and 16C types. 

Tecnicrafts Guide Bushings are generally offered in carbide lining having super finish bore with roughness value of less than 0.4 micron. These special guide bushings include U-Line, Extended Nose and Long Carbide Bores (Max Land) for special turning applications.

The bar feeder collets are available for various bar feeders like Fedek, LNS, Ikura-seiki, Iemca, Citizen, FMB and other popular brands.

All collets and guide bushings are offered in standard and ultra-precision grades. The bore profile includes round, square, hexagon, rectangular and profile bores per customer drawings.

Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc., with its expertise in precision tooling and customer representatives throughout North America, is ready to meet the work holding tool needs for Swiss Turning applications with this new Tecnicrafts product line on its roster of quality tooling.

Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc. serves its growing North American customer base with an extensive inventory of machine tool accessories. Its experienced staff is dedicated to providing the most innovative tooling and technology. Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc. serves the auto, aero, medical, woodworking, composites and other industries, as well as an ever-increasing number of machine tool OEMs worldwide, through its network of manufacturers’ representatives. Platinum Tooling is the master importer of Heimatec, Henninger, Tecnicrafts, AMF and Suzuki Tooling for North America.

For more information, contact Preben Hansen, president, Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc., 16 East Piper Lane, Suite 128, Prospects Heights, Illinois 60070. Call 847.749.0633. Visit www.platinumtooling.com.