(Platinum Tooling: Prospect Heights, IL) -- Platinum Tooling, the exclusive importer of Heimatec live tooling for the North American machine tool accessory market, offers custom designed and special tooling for most major CNC turning centers, in addition to its extensive standard tooling line.

Heimatec will design and build custom tools to suit specific requirements for most CNC lathes, regardless of application, brand, or size, with the same superior quality as its standard tools.

Platinum Tooling is known as a tooling industry source for problem solving and tooling application expertise. Now, tooling experts at the company will work directly with customers to design custom tools that solve specific application and manufacturing needs.

Heimatec, a world leader in live tools, angle heads and multispindle drill heads, manufactures tools for the most popular machines, such as DMGMori, Doosan, Eurotech, Haas, Hardinge, Hurco, Hwacheon, Hyundai, Mazak, Miyano, Murata, Nakamura, Okuma, Samsung, Spinner, Takisawa, Victor Fortune, and Yama Seiki.

Platinum Tooling inventories a wide range of live and static tools for most standard applications.

“A growing portion of our business is centered on custom tools for specific applications,” says Preben Hansen, president at Platinum Tooling. “Customers bring us their toughest challenges, whether those involve exotic materials, depth of cut, extensions needed, rotary table and fixture positioning, or other machine tool arrangements. Our engineers work to provide the optimum solution in cutting time, mechanical motion, and productivity performance.”