Hardinge Supplies a Precision Grip for Medical Component Manufacturing |
Hardinge Workholding Division
One Hardinge Dr.
Elmira, NY, 14902
USA
Press release date: February 13, 2013
Hardinge, well known in the industry for their SUPER-PRECISION® products, provides gripping solutions for machining small diameter parts for medical component manufacturing. One category of products includes Swiss-type headstock collets, pickoff collets, carbide guide bushings, bar loader collets and custom manufactured solutions for Swiss turning.
Their Swiss-type collets are finish ground to provide a smooth, concentric gripping area (order hole) for the bar stock or work piece and are inspected on a Hardinge SUPER-PRECISION® (.000015" TIR) headstock to assure strict concentricity standards. Hardinge stocks headstock collets, pickoff collets and guide bushings in many styles and sizes. Their standard round guide bushings are carbide-lined to keep the stock clean and unmarked. Hardened steel or Meehanite-lined bushings can be made for certain stock that is not compatible with carbide. Standard extended-nose headstock and emergency collets feature added length (straight or tapered) for doing pickoff work or to compensate for tooling interference. Emergency collets can be machined to the desired bore size right in your shop to accommodate small runs or get you by in a pinch while they ship your desired size collet.
Keeping bar stock unmarked, holding a small diameter on center, holding a thin-wall part, ejecting parts and working with extruded bar shapes are common gripping dilemmas for the Swiss-turning industry. Hardinge has manufactured solutions for all of these problems. They provide special accuracy order holes of .0005" or better for holding strict tolerances, as well as micro-inch finish order holes. They manufacture collets and guide bushings for D-shaped and other extruded shapes, along with pickoff collets with a built-in spring ejector that pushes the part into a basket or conveyor to automate the process. Hardinge has engineered pickoff collets for Citizen, Star, Tornos, Tsugami and other Swiss-type machine applications. Other special Swiss-application collets include stepped, tapered, chamfered, radius & off-center order holes, and over-the-shoulder collets. Additional gripping dilemmas such as short gripping, non-marking, slippery materials, push back, tool clearance, multi-pass machining, large diameters and matched keyways are not a problem for Hardinge.
Hardinge supports most styles and brands of Swiss machines. For more information contact Hardinge at 800.843.8801 or visit www.shophardinge.com.
About Hardinge Inc.
Hardinge is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of machine tools, specializing in SUPER- PRECISION™ and precision CNC Lathes, high performance Machining Centers, high-end cylindrical and jig Grinding machines, and technologically advanced Workholding & Rotary Products. Hardinge is also the world’s largest manufacturer of collets (5C Collets, 16C Collets, 20C Collets, Swiss Collets and other styles) for all brands of machines including custom engineered solutions. Hardinge has a very diverse customer base and serves a wide variety of end-user markets. This customer base includes metalworking manufacturers which make parts for a variety of industries, as well as a wide range of end users in the aerospace, agricultural, transportation, basic consumer goods, communications and electronics, construction, defense, energy, pharmaceutical and medical equipment, and recreation industries, among others. Hardinge has manufacturing operations in the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China. For more information, please visit http://www.hardinge.com.
Hardinge Inc.
One Hardinge Drive
PO Box 1507
Elmira, New York 14902-1507 USA
Phone: 800-843-8801
Fax: 607-734-8819
E-mail: info@hardinge.com
Sarah McClatchy
Advanced Web Solutions Analyst
1 Progress Drive
Horsham, PA 19044
212-613-3471 (Office)
215-682-5259 (fax)
215-220-5777 (Cell)
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