Yama Seiki Live Tooling Lathe Capabilities

Parts are complete as they come off the machine providing for improved accuracy The video shows the capabilities of the Yama Seiki Live Tooling lathe, this includes the following operations for the featured parts: Turning Boring Drilling off center Milling and Thread Milling Operations in both the main and sub spindle. Parts come off the machine […]

5-Axis Machining Used for Complex Plastic Parts

New plastic part requires 5-Axis machining to achieve quality, throughput and tolerance. PlasTech is manufacturing a new part that we think is quite impressive. It’s a small plastic part only 1.5 high x 1.0 wide with much detail. This part uses the capabilities of the 5-Axis machining and surfacing with tight inside radius tolerances.

PlasTech Continues to Invest in the Most Up-to-Date 5-Axis CNC Tooling Technology

The YAMA Sieki GLS-2000LYS lathe is an example of our commitment to invest. It is a 5-axis CNC machining lathe with live tooling and sub spindle. This is PlasTech second live tooling 5-axis CNC lathe it has purchased within a year. Plastic CNC machined parts that are normally produced in two and three operations are now […]

PlasTech Ships a High Tolerance Complex Plastic Part for Medical Applications

PLASTECH IS THE ONLY COMPANY THAT CAN PRODUCE THIS VACUUM RELIEF VALVE AT THIS LEVEL OF QUALITY WITH AN ACCEPTABLE COST. Plastech has recently begun shipping an extremely complex plastic part that will be used in a medical application as a vacuum relief valve. The vacuum relief valve is manufactured out of black Delrin, and […]

PlasTech Brings Plastic CNC Machining Back to the USA!

Plastech’s Plastic materials expertise allows customers to avoid quality problems One of Plastech’s long term customers, a multinational company who manufactures cosmetic surgery equipment was having quality problems with a plastic CNC machined component that was being manufactured by a company in China. The customer turned to PlasTech because of its expertise in plastic CNC […]

PlasTech Ships Polished Acrylic Components

Plastic Polishing is one the finishing processes that PlasTech has expertise in. Here are some photos of some in process and finished plastic parts that we recently delivered.