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Platinum Tooling Named North American Distributor for Technicrafts

By Platinum Tooling Press Release

Prospect Heights, Ill. — Platinum Tooling Technologies will be selling products from Tecnicrafts Industries, a manufacturer of collets and guide bushings for Swiss-type CNC lathes.

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Platinum Tooling now offers the complete line of Tecnicrafts collets and guide bushings for Swiss turning machines and bar feeders.


Tecnicrafts is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company. Its manufacturing plant in South India features 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.

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 includes 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.

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.

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