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Raptor-Ready Dovetail Blanks, produced for patented Raptor workholding fixtures, are available from TCI Precision Metals. The design adds a dovetail to one surface of the material before production machining. It locks securely into the workholding fixture, allowing the part to be fully machined on five sides. Once complete, the dovetail can be trimmed off, or […]

TCI Precision Metals, a family-owned precision manufacturer producing close-tolerance blanks from aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys, has installed a Schelling fm8 precision plate saw at its facility in Gardena, Calif. The saw can cut aluminum and other nonferrous metals up to 6 in. thick at speeds up to 100 FPM. The computer-controlled machine achieves […]

3/20/2020 RE: Open for Business To our valuable customers and suppliers, I would like to share with you how Governor Newsom’s executive order will affect our status to remain open and working. Executive order N-33-20 states that; ”To protect public health, I as State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, California, announces Matt Erickson (pictured) as director of sales for the company effective immediately.  Matt brings with him extensive experience in industrial operations, sales, program management, and a customer-first management style...More

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, Calif., has named Matt Erickson as director of sales. He has extensive experience in industrial operations, sales, and program management. The company is a family-owned precision manufacturer producing close-tolerance, machine-ready blanks from aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys.  

Continued Investment in High-Volume Solutions Improves Customer Value TCI Precision Metals announced, today, it has completed installation of its new high precision plate saw, the Schelling fm8.  The saw is the latest in a series of investments the Company has made over the last 12-months in precision, high-volume equipment intended to reduce turnaround time to […]

  TCI Precision Metals announced Matt Erickson as Director of Sales for the Company effective immediately.  Matt brings with him extensive experience in industrial operations, sales, program management, and a customer-first management style.   “We feel Matt is a perfect fit for TCI Precision Metals and are looking to him to provide expanded hands-on customer interaction, […]

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] Make or Buy? Near net size pre-machined materials, or what we refer to as Machine-Ready Blanks, are designed to increase the efficiency of production machining by eliminating material prep.  Machine-Ready Blanks can be virtually any size or shape and can include added features, but typically they are square, rectangular or round stock milled […]

TCI Precision Metals has announced a line of Machine-Ready Blanks designed to eliminate material preparation, and support automated loading and unloading of machining centers engaged in light-out or semi-lights-out operations.  Machine-Ready Blanks for lights-out operations pull from TCI Precision Metals' experience in producing close tolerance, pre-machined blanks... More-West  More-Midwest  More-Northeast

Helps Reduce Buy-to-Fly Ratios- Buy-to-Fly Ratio (BTF) is a term used mainly by additive manufacturing suppliers to substantiate the efficiencies of 3D printing.  The BTF analogy is a good one, all things equal, but they are not.  There are many different manufacturing methods available today, each with inherent strengths and weaknesses.  One of the tenets […]