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Platinum Tooling Showroom Tour

Platinum Tooling showroom at its distribution facility intended to help industry visitors learn more about its lines of precision machine tool accessories.

August 15, 2025
Industry News
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Preben Hansen, president/owner of Platinum Tooling, demonstrates a Gewefa hydraulic clamping tool at the company’s showroom. Alan Richter

To help visiting sales representatives, agents and members of the trade press learn more about its lines of precision machine tool accessories, Platinum Tooling Inc. has created a showroom at its distribution facility in Prospect Heights, Illinois.

The company’s lines include live tools and angle heads from heimatec GmbH, Swiss-type collets and guide bushings from Tecnicrafts Industries, spindle speeders from Henninger GmbH u. Co. KG, Quick knurling and marking tools from Hommel + Keller Präzisionswerkzeuge GmbH, shrink-fit toolholders and machines from Rineck GmbH Maschinenbau, specialty and adaptive guide bushing systems from Dunner AG, and broaching tools from REV s.r.l. unipersonale. Most recently, Platinum Tooling announced that it is the North American importer of hydraulic clamping tools from Gewefa Josef C. Pfister GmbH & Co. KG. The line includes ER hydraulic chucks and front and back side actuation tooling for Swiss-style CNC lathes.

Preben Hansen, president and owner of Platinum Tooling, said the Gewefa line fits in the same general market of its customer base, which all have lathes and mills, as well as a lot of Swiss-style machines. The quick-change hydraulic clamps provide high accuracy, damp vibration, enhance flexibility and have through-coolant capabilities. For live tools, options are available for both internal and external collet nut styles. The Gewefa offerings are designed to work with heimatec live tools as an alternative toolholding system to ER collets.

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