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Northfield Precision Instruments

Leading manufacturer of Precision Workholding Solutions for close to seventy years.

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Northfield Industries

Northfield’s workholding solutions can be found in any industry with products that requires high precision, tight tolerances, or surefire repeatability.

Chucks & Jaws Blanks

Northfield Precision Air Chucks, also known as sliding jaw chucks, are the benchmark for high precision chucks.

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Why Northfield Precision Instruments?

As a leading manufacturer of precision workholding solutions for over seventy years, Northfield offers the most accurate, reliable, and easy to use workholding solutions in the world, along with complete engineering support. All Northfield Precision products are proudly made in the USA.

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Northfield Resources

  • What “Precision” Really Means in Hard Turning and Grinding
    February 10, 2026 Rabin Mahmud

    What “Precision” Really Means in Hard Turning and Grinding

    Precision is not a single number. It is the combined effect of machine capability, spindle behavior, workholding, tooling, process control, environment, and measurement. Here is a concise framework for teams running hard turning and grinding with micron-level requirements, and how...

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  • a custom internal-grip collet chuck
    January 22, 2026 FCD Team

    High Precision EDM Workholding

    When a global medical-device manufacturer incorporated wire EDM into production, they required equally precise workholding. Northfield developed a corrosion-resistant, high-accuracy solution purpose-built for the EDM environment.

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  • powder-metal transmission component
    January 19, 2026 FCD Team

    Gripping Non-symmetrical Transmission Components

    An automotive manufacturer producing a unique powder-metal transmission component needed a reliable way to finish-turn both faces in a fully automated, lights-out cell. The part’s irregular outer profile (multiple ears/lobes) made conventional jaw gripping impossible without risking interference or mislocation.

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