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Though slowing, Gardner Metalworking Index still showing growth According to the Gardner Business Index (GBI): Metalworking registered 51.6, marking growth, but at its slowest rate of expansion since 2017. Index readings above 50 indicate expanding business activity while a value of 50 indicates no change and a reading below 50 indicates contracting business activity. Prior […]

TCI Precision Metals will provide custom Machine-Ready Blanks to the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), in support of the 2019 SkillsUSA National CNC Championship, June 24-28, in Louisville, Kentucky. NIMS will organize and run three CNC machining competitions during the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Student Conference. Talented high school and community college students from […]

When people think about trepanning they typically envision large, deep, round holes or hollowing of bar stock, but at TCI Precision Metals we provide a variation of trepanning, using plate stock, that we call Shallow Trepanning™. Typical trepanning is the process of drilling a large deep hole in a metal part leaving the core intact. […]

TCI Precision Metals, Gardena, California, in collaboration with the National Tooling and Machining Association and Tormach has donated a Tormach, PCNC 440 mill to the Downey High School, Striking Vikings robotics team. The new addition will help the team machine and fabricate their battlebot robots, which they enter into National Robotics League competitions.  Read More...

Gardena, Calif.-based TCI Precision Metals, in collaboration with the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and Tormach, has donated a Tormach PCNC 440 mill to the Downey High School Striking Vikings robotics team in Downey, Calif. The new addition will help the team machine and fabricate their battlebot robots, which they enter into National Robotics […]

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 […]

Many of the close tolerance Machine-Ready Blanks we produce at TCI Precision Metals are flat and designed to stay that way.  Demand for flat material that resists movement during machining is high for two reasons, one, part movement can turn parts into scrap, and two, creating flat material, on your shop floor, that resists movement […]

Media Preference Survey Results In December we conducted a survey among our customers to better understand their preferences for gathering information about new products and services.  The results were interesting and some of the data proved to be counter to what you hear in the general media, but we were not surprised.  You see, for […]

TCI Precision Metals has expanded its product offering of Machine-Ready Solutions to include Feature-Added Blanks, designed to deliver to shops near-net, Machine-Ready Blanks that include one or more features. The service eliminates the need for material prep and can include drilling, boring, turning, milling, roughing and hogging out features as specified. Read More...

TCI Precision Metals has expanded its product offering of machine-ready solutions to include feature-added blanks, designed to deliver shops near-net machine-ready blanks that include one or more features.  The service eliminates the need for material prep and can include drilling, boring, turning, milling, roughing and hoging features, among others... Read More...