Lathes are versatile and essential tools in modern metal fabrication, designed to shape and refine materials with exceptional accuracy. By spinning a workpiece against a cutting tool, lathes can perform operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, and polishing to produce smooth, precise finishes. Their adaptability makes them indispensable in industries requiring high-quality metal components, and at Prestige Metal Products, lathes are a cornerstone of our fabrication capabilities.

Our Lathes

MoriSeiki ZL150

Mazak QT 15

Clausing Colchester 15”

Clausing Colchester 11”

At Prestige Metal Products, we leverage the precision and efficiency of lathes to enhance a range of services, ensuring optimal quality for every project. Here’s how lathes contribute to our key capabilities:

Lathes are instrumental in preparing and finishing components for laser cutting. By creating precise cylindrical and round surfaces, lathes ensure that raw materials are uniform and ready for high-precision cuts. This preparation minimizes waste and enhances the accuracy of laser cutting for intricate designs.

Before shearing processes, lathes help refine and shape metal rods or sheets into manageable sizes and forms. This preparatory step ensures materials meet dimensional requirements, reducing stress on the shearing equipment and improving edge quality.

In our engineering processes, lathes enable the creation of prototypes and parts with detailed specifications. The ability to customize dimensions and finishes allows for seamless integration into larger designs, supporting innovative solutions for our customers.

Lathes contribute to welding projects by shaping components with tight tolerances, ensuring precise alignment and secure weld joints. They are particularly effective in preparing beveled edges and cylindrical parts that require uniform surfaces for strong, durable welds.

Lathes and grinding often work hand in hand. Lathes shape the initial form of a workpiece, while grinding refines its surface to meet exacting standards. This combination delivers superior finishes for components used in high-performance applications.

Lathes play a critical role in achieving a polished finish by removing surface irregularities before final polishing. This preparation ensures smooth, reflective surfaces ideal for aesthetic or functional purposes in end products.

Lathes contribute to press brake forming by crafting dies, punches, or other tooling components. Their precision ensures that tooling used in forming processes aligns perfectly, delivering consistent bends and angles across large production runs.

In punching and stamping, lathes shape tools and dies critical to the accuracy of these processes. By crafting components to exact specifications, lathes enhance the repeatability and efficiency of punching and stamping operations.

Lathes are central to Prestige’s machining capabilities, providing the versatility needed to create complex shapes, threads, and grooves. From small, intricate parts to large, structural components, our lathes ensure every detail is executed with precision.

At Prestige Metal Products, our state-of-the-art lathe equipment and skilled team ensure that every project meets the highest standards of quality. By integrating lathes into our comprehensive fabrication services, we deliver precision, efficiency, and reliability across industries. Whether you need finely machined components or perfectly shaped materials for further processing, our lathe expertise ensures your project’s success.

Contact us today to learn more about our capabilities or to discuss your next project.