Tooling Company Continues to Expand Offerings
Now representing six brands in North America, Platinum Tooling offers tooling and related accessories for a range of machine tool types, including CNC mills, lathes and Swiss-types.
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This “family portrait” shows a sample of the broad range of tooling options offered by Platinum Tooling for the North American machine tool industry. Source: Platinum Tooling
Platinum Tooling Technologies has an expansive range of tooling products that can help optimize machining processes for equipment including CNC mills, lathes and Swiss-types. In fact, IMTS 2024 was the first in which the company had its own booth to highlight its six brands which it supports in North America. It started with live tools and angle heads from Heimatec GmbH, but other products include knurling and marking tools from Hommel + Keller; Swiss-type lathe collets and guide bushings from Tecnicrafts; speed increasers from Henninger; and broaching tools from REV.
Rineck and Dunner are the company’s two newest brands. Rineck offers shrink-fit tooling and shrink-fit machine technology. Standard and custom shrink-fit tool holders are available with various connections, including CAT, HSK, BT, SK, PSC and straight shank extensions. In addition, ER shrink-fit collets are also offered.
Dunner manufactures bronze, ceramic and titane (Meehanite) guide bushings for Swiss-type lathes. It also offers an adaptive guide bushing for Swiss-type lathes. This enables shops to effectively use non-ground barstock instead of more costly ground barstock.
Company experts, including its president/owner, Preben Hansen, were in Platinum Tooling’s West Building IMTS booth describing the advantages of its offerings. Some tooling was shown in mock machine displays with workpieces to get a sense of how all this technology comes together, too.
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