General Information
As a leading manufacturer of precision workholding solutions for close to seventy years, Northfield Precision Instruments Corporation offers its customers the finest products in the world, along with complete engineering support.
All Northfield Precision products are proudly made in the USA.
General Information
As a leading manufacturer of precision workholding solutions for close to seventy years, Northfield Precision Instruments Corporation offers its customers the finest products in the world, along with complete engineering support.
All Northfield Precision products are proudly made in the USA.
Key Features
Unparalled Precision
Northfield’s chucks are the most accurate in the world with guaranteed accuracies from 0.0001" (one tenth) (2.5µ) to 0.000010" (10 millionths) (0.25µ) on all standard chucks.
Universal Manufacturing Capabilities
Accommodating all metal, composite, ceramic, and glass parts for a wide variety of industries including: automotive, aerospace, electrical/electronic, medical/optical, machine tool, plastics/ceramics, appliance.
Turnkey solutions
Our products can be integrated into almost any machine and are highly customizable. Whether you’re a job shop or large production facility, Northfield can tool up your new and/or existing machines.
Precision Air Chucks
Northfield Precision Air Chucks, also known as "sliding-jaw chucks", are the benchmark for high precision, quality, efficiency, and easy-of-use.
Precision Air Chucks
Northfield Precision Air Chucks, also known as "sliding-jaw chucks", are the benchmark for high precision, quality, efficiency, and easy-of-use.
Diaphragm Air Chucks
Northfield Diaphragm Chucks are considered to be the most accurate chucks in the world and are the fastest to actuate (open and close) out of all available chuck types (scroll, manual, hydraulic, sliding-jaw, etc.).
Diaphragm Air Chucks
Northfield Diaphragm Chucks are considered to be the most accurate chucks in the world and are the fastest to actuate (open and close) out of all available chuck types (scroll, manual, hydraulic, sliding-jaw, etc.).
Key Features
Specialized Gripping
Specialized for OD-gripping, with an infinitely-adjustable grip force while maintaining extremely high accuracy and repeatability (.00002" TIR) - For ID-gripping, we offer Reverse Diaphragm Chucks - Ties to specialty order
Maintains Precision
No maintenance required; No metal-to-metal moving parts. Minimal wear, More actuation cycles vs. other style chucks & Completely sealed.
Easy to Maintain
Maintains precision at high RPM
Balancing Chucks
Drive Shaft Balancing: Northfield is the world’s premier manufacturer of ultra-precision balance chucks for prop shafts; with chucks that weigh less than half as much as those of our competitors. We are also the only chuck supplier to be recommended by major balance manufacturers.
General balancing : With ever-increasing speeds used on today's rotating machinery, balancing is becoming increasingly important. The trademark accuracy and repeatability of Northfield chucks allow our customers to take their designs to the next level.
Balancing Chucks
Drive Shaft Balancing: Northfield is the world’s premier manufacturer of ultra-precision balance chucks for prop shafts; with chucks that weigh less than half as much as those of our competitors. We are also the only chuck supplier to be recommended by major balance manufacturers.
General balancing : With ever-increasing speeds used on today's rotating machinery, balancing is becoming increasingly important. The trademark accuracy and repeatability of Northfield chucks allow our customers to take their designs to the next level.
Precision Collet Chucks
Simple workholding applications for a variety of part sizes that require anywhere from a light to a significant amount of clamp force.
Precision Collet Chucks
Simple workholding applications for a variety of part sizes that require anywhere from a light to a significant amount of clamp force.
Key Features
Unrivaled Precision
With all critical components hardened and ground for ultimate accuracy and durability, you can trust Northfield’s collet chucks to deliver consistent, precise results every time.
Effortlessly Accommodates
Whether you’re working with standard 5C collets, or any other standard industry collet, our collet chucks effortlessly accommodate a wide range of workpieces.sizes.e.g., 5C, 16C, 3C, 3J, 20, 22J
Variety of Features
Available as a pneumatic or hydraulic chuck, with a wide variety of features also available.
Precision Internal Grip Collet Chucks
Custom Collet Chuck solutions for tough-to-grip ID chucking applications requiring ultimate precision.
Precision Internal Grip Collet Chucks
Custom Collet Chuck solutions for tough-to-grip ID chucking applications requiring ultimate precision.
Specialty Application Chucks
Northfield is continually developing new products, custom-designed to solve the most difficult workholding problems for all kinds of materials, including metal, composite, ceramic and glass.
Specialty Application Chucks
Northfield is continually developing new products, custom-designed to solve the most difficult workholding problems for all kinds of materials, including metal, composite, ceramic and glass.
Jaw Blanks
Top jaws are a critical part of a precision workholding system. The same attention must be paid to jaw design and their manufacture that you would to that of the machine itself if maximum accuracy is to be achieved at the workpiece.
Jaw Blanks
Top jaws are a critical part of a precision workholding system. The same attention must be paid to jaw design and their manufacture that you would to that of the machine itself if maximum accuracy is to be achieved at the workpiece.
Air Tubes & Rotor Unions
Provide us with your machine dimensions and we'll build an air tube to meet your needs.
Pneumatic Actuators
If you need to feed part through spindle and chuck, we make actuators that accommodate it.
Miscellaneous
Other accessories for maintenance - Grease, grease guns, A2, adapters, loading pins.