What Is CNC Turning?
CNC turning is a subtractive manufacturing process where material is removed from a rotating workpiece using a stationary cutting tool. It’s ideal for producing cylindrical or symmetrical parts with high dimensional accuracy, surface finish, and repeatability.
Our CNC Turning Capabilities
- Multi-axis CNC lathes with live tooling
- Up to 12” diameter and 48” length capacity
- Tight tolerances down to ±0.0005”
- Threading, grooving, knurling, and facing
- Bar-fed and chucking operations
- Low- to high-volume runs
what We Make
Our CNC turning solutions are perfect for parts such as
Materials We Machine
360 Brass (free-machining brass) is a versatile material for various industries. Common applications include gears, lock components, pipe fittings, and decorative parts. It has excellent machinability and can be easily fabricated into different shapes and sizes. It boasts high corrosion resistance and good electrical conductivity, making it an ideal choice for electrical components and marine applications.
Aluminum is a lightweight and highly versatile material that is widely used in various industries. It offers a unique combination of properties including high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent corrosion resistance, malleability, and good thermal and electrical conductivity. These characteristics make aluminum an ideal choice for applications where weight reduction, durability, and efficient heat transfer are important factors, like engine blocks, heat exchangers, and other transportation components.
Offers a wide range of steel options to meet the demands of various applications. Alloy and carbon steel are particularly useful for creating fixtures, mounting plates, draft shafts, axles, torsion bars, gears, bolts, studs, shafts, and structural components. High-quality steel materials provide excellent strength and durability, making them ideal for demanding industrial applications.
Garolite G-10 is a high-pressure laminate material composed of layers of woven fiberglass cloth impregnated with epoxy resin. It is a strong and rigid material that exhibits excellent electrical insulation properties, along with water resistance. Garolite G-10 is known for its high mechanical strength and dimensional stability. It is commonly used in insulating components, circuit boards, and other electrical components. G-10 is a composite material with a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
ULTEM is a thermoplastic with exceptional strength, stiffness, durability, environmental resistance, heat resistance, low flammability, and excellent electrical insulation capabilities. Common applications include electronic components/connectors, industrial equipment, surgical instruments, aerospace engine components, and medical devices. In addition to its mechanical properties, ULTEM exhibits excellent chemical resistance, making it suitable for corrosive environments.
Copper 101 and 110 have unmatched thermal and electrical conductivity, which makes them a popular choice for bus bars, wire connectors, and other electrical applications like parts for power transmission and distribution systems. Copper alloys 101 and 110 also offer incredible durability, corrosion resistance, and ease of fabrication. Commonly used in high-performance electrical components such as transformers, generators, motors, and switchgear.
Tolerances & Quality Assurance
Precision is more than just a number. Our CNC turning process includes:
CNC Turning Process
What does the turning process actually comprise of? While the cutting itself is pretty straightforward, we are going to look at the whole sequence here which actually starts from creating a CAD file.
The steps of the process are:
- Creating a digital representation of the part in CAD
- Creating the machining code from the CAD files
- CNC lathe setup
- Manufacturing of the turned parts