Category: Technicrafts

Tecnicrafts Industries: A pioneer in Producing High-Quality Collets & Guide Bushings

11/13/2024

Founded in 2002 with the vision to revolutionize precision tooling manufacturing in India, Tecnicrafts Industries has emerged as a pioneer in producing high-quality collets, honing mandrels, sleeves, holding tools, jigs, and fixtures.

Technicrafts is imported through Platinum Tooling for North America and represented by Next Generation Tooling in much of the West Coast.

High Precision Collets & Guide Bushes for
Swiss Type CNC automatic lathes

Platinum Tooling Dead Length Collets (F Type

At the heart of Tecnicrafts' offerings are their meticulously crafted Dead Length Collets, also known as F-Type Collets. These collets serve as indispensable holding devices for tools, raw materials, or components during various machining operations. Widely utilized on main and rear spindles of turning machines such as cam-operated lathes and CNC Swiss automatic lathes, Tecnicrafts' Dead Length Collets have become instrumental in the precision machining industry.

Tecnicrafts Guide Bushings, another cornerstone of their product line, are constructed from high-quality steels with wear-resistant carbides. The carbide guiding pad, composed of fine-grain carbides, acts as a split bearing, ensuring optimal guidance for the rod during machining on Swiss CNC machines.

With variations like Drawn type, Push type, and Fixed type, these guide bushings cater to specific turning needs on Swiss CNC sliding headstock machines, finding applications in renowned brands such as Citizen-Cincom, Tornos, Star, Tsugami, and more.

The expertise of Tecnicrafts extends to Bar Feeder Collets, designed for use on automatic bar feeders by leading manufacturers like Fedek, Iemca, Barload, and Tornos.

Essential for Swiss-type CNC machines, these collets, available in External Thread type, Internal Thread type, and Pin Type, play a crucial role in feeding rods with precision and reliability. The mechanical springing quality of these collets is of paramount importance, ensuring seamless operations in demanding machining environments.

Tecnicrafts' commitment to delivering high-quality precision tooling has positioned them as a trusted partner for machining industries globally. With a diverse product range catering to various machining needs, Tecnicrafts Industries continues to set new standards in the world of precision tooling, providing solutions that empower manufacturers to achieve unparalleled accuracy and efficiency in their operations.

For personalized assistance and to explore the perfect tooling solution for your specific requirements, contact Next Generation Tooling today. Unlock the full potential of precision machining with Tecnicrafts and take your production to new heights.

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Cutting Tool Engineering Visits the Platinum Tooling Booth at IMTS 2022

12/13/2022

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Cutting Tool Engineering visited Preben Hansen, President of Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc., at their IMTS 2022 booth. Preban highlighted some of the features a variety of products from Heimatec, Tecnicrafts, Quick, Henninger and Rineck.

Take a look at the video and let us know if you have any questions.

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IMTS 2022: New Products & Special Deals

8/24/2022

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Here's a look at some of the new products and special offers from our manufacturers! You'll want to check them out in-person at the show, on-line during the show or contact us and we can stop in and get into the details at your shop with one of our guys.

BIG DAISHOWA High-Performance Tooling Solutions

West Building, Level 3 Booth 431610

BIG DAISHOWA designs, manufactures and markets premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the automotive, military, aerospace, energy, and micro-technology industries. BIG DAISHOWA is the North American representative of Speroni tool measuring machines, Sphinx high performance drills, mptec measuring stands, Tekusa spindle cleaners and the UNILOCK zero-point workholding system

Be sure and check out the two special offers:

C-CUTTER MINI and BF-CUTTER
Receive a free cutter body with the purchase of inserts. Must purchase 30 of the same insert to receive the free cutter body.

Promo Details

FULLCUT MILL Special Offer
Receive a free cutter body with the purchase of inserts. Must purchase 40 of the same insert to receive the free cutter body.

Promo Details

Carmex Precision Tools, LLC

West Building, Level 3 Booth 431480

Carmex Precision Tools specializes in carbide cutting tools for thread turning & thread milling. They will be showcasing a full line of tools for Swiss machines, including turning, back turning, grooving & parting.

Jergens, Inc.

West Building, Level 3 Booth 432154

Jergens Inc is a global manufacturing leader of CNC machining custom workholding products. Today, you'll find their vises, clamps & fixturing systems, tooling components, at work in just about every segment of the metalcutting industry.

Check out their innovative engineered solutions like the patented

Ball Lock®️ Mounting System
Fixture-Pro®️ 5-axis workholding which has changed the way manufacturers worldwide think about metalworking productivity
Jergens Zero Point Mounting System allows you to fix, position and clamp in a single step.

Platinum Tooling

West Building, Level 3 Booth 432245

Platinum Tooling has been hard at work searching to find the highest quality machine tool accessories in the market…and we think they’ve done it! Platinum Tooling will be showcasing the following products at IMTS:

Heimatec – Swiss, Turning, & Machining Center Tools
Tecnicrafts - Swiss Type Collets & Guide Bushings
Henninger – Mechanical, Air, & Motor Speeders
AMF - Cleaners & Markers
Hommel + Keller – QUICK Knurling & Marking Tools

Techniks Tool Group

West Building, Level 3 Booth 432239

Techniks Tool Group (TTG), the parent company of Techniks and Parlec, is one of North America’s largest providers of best-in-class tooling solutions for CNC machining centers. Check out the complete list of products they will be demonstrating at IMTS:

Parlec Shrink Fit Holders – Made-in-USA shrink fit tooling that matches the gage lengths and nose diameters of popular international standards for plug-and-play simplicity
Triton Hydraulic Chucks - Finally, a hydraulic chuck built for heavy material removal applications
ERos (ER On-Size) Collet System – Extreme 3-micron accuracy from an easy-to-use collet-based system
Made-in-USA Shrink Fit Machines - Fully automated operation makes incorporating shrink fit easy
Parlec Micron Milling Chucks - The most accurate milling chucks on the market!
M-Style Milling Chucks - Narrow nose clearances and long reaches in a milling chuck
MicroFLOAT Tapping System - Extending tap life by 300%
SFS12 Modular Shrink Fit System - Superior rigidity at extended lengths
sPINner Deburring - Automating small parts deburring
EEPM Electro-Permanent Workholding - Fast part changover, incredible holding power
HVC Face Mill Holders - 6X the coolant delivery for enhanced chip evacuation and faster feed rates
SlimFIT Collet System - Narrow nose clearances and extended reaches in an easy-to-use collet system
DNA (Dead Nut Accurate) Collet System - Perfect for smaller diameter tools

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Ready for an Early Lunch & Learn on Live Tooling this Thursday June 17?

6/15/2021

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lunch and learn Preban hanson Platinum Tooling

We hope you can join Platinum Tooling for a FREE online Webinar hosted by GIE Media, Inc., this Thursday, June 17th at 9am to 9:30 am (Pacific time).

During this Manufacturing event, Preben Hansen, President of Platinum Tooling and longtime leading expert in the machine tool accessory market, will detail recent advancements in live tooling, angle heads and speed increasers.

In 2010, Preben started a partnership with Heimatec GmbH to be the exclusive importer of Heimatec products in North America. From there he grew his business and in 2018, bought out heimatec and formed his new company, Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc (PTTI). PTTI became the importer for North America of heimatec products, along with several other machine tool accessory lines, including Henninger, Tecnicrafts, and AMF.

It’s easy to sign up…simply click the link below to register:

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Next Generation Tooling Opens Two Offices in California to Provide Technical Support During the Pandemic.

8/3/2020

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by Bernard Martin

Next Gen Tooling SoCal 22343 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA

Next Generation Tooling's new SoCal Office, Showroom, Warehouse & Training facility is located at 22343 La Palma Avenue, Suite 126, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

Sacramento, CA. - Next Generation Tooling, LLC, a manufacturer's representative agency, founded in 1995 and servicing the California Nevada Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico CNC manufacturing markets has just opened TWO offices in California.

Most of Next Generation Tooling's customers know them as "the Next Gen guys" according to Chris Savolainen, the Founder and President of 'Next Gen Tooling'.

What was the rationale of opening not one, but two offices when the entire team has worked out of their own home offices for years?

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"We've grown our market service area quite a bit since we started out servicing just Northern California. We now include most of the Western States of the US. We've s been adding some of the best technical CNC application people we can find to support the unique mix of principles we represent. The products that we represent are what are considered very high performance tooling and workholding. It's some of the premiere products in our entire industry! We determined that we really needed a place to provide on-site technical training. We also needed to carry some inventory to support the unique needs of the aerospace, medical, electronics and defense industries that we support." Said Savolainen.

Rob Aldama, Vice-President of Next Gen Tool picks up the story, "At first we thought that one training and showroom might be good enough, but as we started talk to our distributor, machine dealer and end-user manufacturing customers, we discovered that there was a real need for facilities in both Northern and Southern California. None of our competitors are providing the deep technical service that has helped us gain market share, so we really felt we should just take it to the next level and open two facilities."

Next Generation Tooling NorCal Office Showroom

Next Generation Tooling's new NorCal Office, Showroom, Warehouse & training facility is located at 8171 Alpine Ave, Suite A, Sacramento, CA 95829

But what about the Pandemic?

With the Covid-19 pandemic raging there are not a lot of companies expanding. Most are cutting costs and employees. When asked about this both Chris and Rob stated that their team of people have remained pretty busy throughout this entire period.

Chris said "We get asked in to shops to provide technical support pretty often. Putting on the full body PPE suits has been kind of common for us during the past few months."

Rob picked it up from there, "I think we may be some of the really select few that have been asked to come into shops because we're not just taking orders, we're reducing cycle time and we're improving efficiency"

Chris jumped back in, "And maybe its a little bit self serving, We can have the equipment set-up at both locations instead of trying to bring it into a facility. It's actually a lot easier, faster and safer to bring people to one of our locations rather than try to move things with lots of sweat and heavy breathing in PPE."

"Yea, We can bring people to either location and do the training. There are far less interruptions and the I think people learn a lot more, and learn it faster" stated Rob.

NGT Warehouse and Training

What types of training do they provide at Next Gen's new buildings? They start off with a lot of fundamentals that people running CNC machines may never had any formal training about. That's where their basic Training Classes fit in.

Machining 101
Basic Boring
Basic Chamfering
Basic Drill Training
Basic End Mill
Basic Indexable
Basic Tap Training
Basic Tool Holders
Basic Work Holding / Fixturing

But they also can go much deeper with their Advanced Part Manufacturing training series

Programming Tool Path – Climb versus Conventional
Material Machinability – Cubic Inches of Stock Removal
Part Set Up / Workholding & Fixturing
Tool Holder Selection, Collet, Solid, Hydraulic, Shrink Fit
Cutting Tool Selection – Substrate, Geometry, Coating, Speed and Feeds
Estimating Part Cycle Time

Learn More About Training

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Tecnicrafts Straight Shank ER Collet Chucks for Swiss Lathes are now available through Platinum Tooling.

6/16/2020

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Tecnicrafts ER Straight Shank Collet Chuck Swiss Lathe

Tecnicrafts Straight Shank ER Collet Chucks for Swiss Lathes

Breaking NEWS from Platinum Tooling: ER Collet Chucks are available in single or double ended style and come in various lengths. Offered in both metric or inch sizes, these tools can be ordered in round or with flats.

Tecnicrafts manufactures these toolholders to a tight run out tolerance of 5 microns or less and adheres to the h6 standard for shank diameter.

All Tecnicrafts Collets and Guide Bushings are available in Standard and Ultra-Precision grades.

The bore profiles include Round, Square, Hexagon, Rectangle and Custom as per customer specifications.

The collets are offered in steel and carbide lined versions with Grooved, Smooth, or Serrated bores in Standard and Long Nose types.

Special V-line and Over-Grip collets are also available.

Tecnicrafts Guide Bushings are generally offered in carbide lining with U-line, Over-Grip, and Extended Nose & Long Bores available.

Bechet
Bechler
Citizen
Gauthier
Gildemeister
Goodway
Hanwha
Hardinge
Index
Jinn-Fa
Maier

Manurhin-KMX
Miyano
Nexturn
Nomura
Peterman
Star
Strohm
Tornos
Traub
Tsugami

Tecnicrafts Swiss Collets & Guide Bushings are also available to complement your machining operations.

For quick delivery, Platinum Tooling inventories the most common sizes and styles of Collets & Guide Bushings at their headquarters located in Prospect Heights, Illinois. Non-standard items are available to ship within 3-4 weeks.

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Heimatec Named North American Distributor for Tecnicrafts

5/31/2017

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Effective immediately, Heimatec Inc., will be selling 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 its manufacturing plant in South India with state of the art machine tools and 115 technicians. 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.

Heimatec Tencnicrafts collets swiss machine

COLLETS

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, 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 includes 5C and 16C types.

Technicraft carbide lined guide bushing special.

GUIDE BUSHINGS

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.

BAR FEEDER COLLETS

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 as per customer drawings.

Heimatec Inc., with its expertise in precision tooling and having 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.

About Tecnicrafts
Tecnicrafts Industries, is a professionally owned & operated company, started its journey as a fledgling 2 man operation in a 600 sq.ft plant and has grown into a company employing 120 people and occupying 12000 sq.ft state of the art plant.

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Tecnicrafts Industries: A pioneer in Producing High-Quality Collets & Guide Bushings

High Precision Collets & Guide Bushes for
Swiss Type CNC automatic lathes

Cutting Tool Engineering Visits the Platinum Tooling Booth at IMTS 2022

IMTS 2022: New Products & Special Deals

BIG DAISHOWA High-Performance Tooling Solutions

Carmex Precision Tools, LLC

Jergens, Inc.

Platinum Tooling

Techniks Tool Group

Ready for an Early Lunch & Learn on Live Tooling this Thursday June 17?

Next Generation Tooling Opens Two Offices in California to Provide Technical Support During the Pandemic.

But what about the Pandemic?

NGT Warehouse and Training

Tecnicrafts Straight Shank ER Collet Chucks for Swiss Lathes are now available through Platinum Tooling.

Tecnicrafts Swiss Collets & Guide Bushings are also available to complement your machining operations.

Heimatec Named North American Distributor for Tecnicrafts

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