This page contains general workholding information as well as links to pages from our extensive workholding catalogs. 3-Jaw Power Chucks Hardinge Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of spindle tooling. Our inventory of collets, feed fingers and other workholding devices is unsurpassed. Whether you require spindle tooling for automatic screw machines, lathes, mills, grinders, or fixtures, we are the workholding experts with the highest standards in the industry. They last longer than other collets because they are the hardest collets manufactured to 62 Rockwell C standards.
Collets are heat treated and spring tempered to ensure accuracy and longer life at a low cost.
Our products are available for immediate shipment from stock in several strategic locations throughout the United States. The main office in Elmira, New York has customer representatives dedicated to taking and entering orders. Once received, your order is processed, packaged and ready to be picked up by the delivery service within twenty minutes. Hardinge also has a select engineering group, and large manufacturing team, which custom designs and produces special workholding devices, systems, collets, feed fingers and pads manufactured to customer specifications. Our experienced engineers offer you their expertise and technical assistance in designing the workholding device that can make your tough machining jobs possible.