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Most shops avoid metals like Inconel, titanium, and cobalt-chrome because the heat, hardness, and tool wear make them exceptionally difficult to machine. The Elk Grove, Illinois, facility built its reputation on exactly that work.
Advanced machining strategies and decades of hands-on aerospace and defense experience let the team produce these parts with confidence, giving customers access to capabilities that few suppliers can offer. For medical device components, that same rigor extends to strict processing, cleaning, and inspection protocols.
That matters most when a program is stuck. Long lead times, high tooling costs, or a supplier unwilling to machine a difficult material are the problems this facility was built to solve.
The facility machines high-precision parts for demanding programs, including the following.
The heart of the operation is materials most manufacturers will not touch, including the following.
The facility is built for programs where tolerances are unforgiving and the materials are difficult, and its focus reflects that. Aerospace and defense, energy, and space sit at the core of the work, each one a natural fit for the hard-to-machine and superalloy specialty.
Precision machining here is built for unique, tight-tolerance geometries. Multi-axis milling, turning, and profiling produce complex shapes that would be difficult or impossible to make otherwise. Because multi-axis milling lets the cutting tool reach a part from several directions, more of the work happens in a single setup, which cuts handling and protects accuracy.
The capacity behind it runs deep. Thirteen three-axis vertical mills, one four-axis vertical, and two five-axis vertical cover work from the routine to the highly complex, while four two-axis and eight three-axis lathes handle turned and cylindrical parts.
Together, that range lets the team hold extremely tight tolerances across demanding, repeatable production runs, even in the toughest metals.
Combining CNC machining and high-precision grinding under one roof gives customers tighter control, better quality assurance, and lower production costs than splitting the work across suppliers.
The equipment grinds multiple diameters in a single plunge and produces mirror-like surface finishes, with eight tool grinders on site to keep the work moving.
Wire EDM is ideal for complex designs that are hard to produce with other cutting methods or standard machining, and it cuts sharp corners with minimal radii.
Sinker EDM creates blind pockets by sinking an electrode into the material, which suits the complex shapes needed for molds, dies, and tooling. On site, the team runs four wire EDM and one sinker EDM machine.
Some programs get turned away over the inspection, not the machining. Highly complex inspection requirements are exactly the kind of work many shops decline, and meeting them is a core part of what this facility delivers.
Every part gets 100% quality control, backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification and held to the medical-grade accuracy the facility is known for. The metrology lab is equipped for the toughest requirements, with three CMM machines, three laser inspection systems, a visual inspection system, and optical comparators for precise, repeatable measurement.
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The featured program shows how the team stepped in when precision components became a bottleneck, moving a demanding build through to production without slowing the launch.
From design concept validation and prototyping to production release, our experienced engineers work with you to optimize your designs for manufacturability and cost-effectiveness.
The facility provides 100% quality control on every product and adheres strictly to quality assurance procedures, backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification and a fully equipped metrology lab.
The Elk Grove operation is led by Kris Parzatha, known for turning near-impossible super-alloy components into precision reality.
With deep expertise in advanced machining and process development, Kris partners with customers across the full product journey, from early design and manufacturability guidance through precision production and final delivery, backed by decades of aerospace and defense manufacturing experience. Check out Kris Parzatha’s LinkedIn profile to see his full career background.
The facility specializes in hard-to-machine and superalloy metals, including Inconel, Hastelloy, Waspaloy, Rene alloys, Monel, cobalt-chrome, titanium and titanium alloys, tool steel, stainless steel, Kovar, niobium, molybdenum, TZM, CPM powder metal, aluminum, and plastics.
The facility offers profiling, turning, and 3, 4, and 5-axis milling, high-precision grinding, wire and sinker EDM, and full metrology and inspection. In practice, that covers complex, tight-tolerance parts from raw material through verified, finished components.
The facility is located at 1401 Brummel Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, and supports customers across Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa, including Chicago and Milwaukee, as well as companies nationwide.
Yes. Profiling, turning, and 3, 4, and 5-axis milling handle unique geometries, and wire and sinker EDM reach complex shapes, sharp corners, and blind pockets that other methods struggle with, all held to extremely tight tolerances.
The primary focus is aerospace and defense, turbine and energy, space and satellites, oil and gas downhole tools, and medical implants, with additional work in semiconductor, electronics, packaging, automotive, and metal stamping.
The facility is ISO 9001:2015 certified and applies 100% quality control on every product, supported by a metrology lab with three CMM machines, three laser inspection systems, a visual inspection system, and optical comparators.
That is often when customers come to the Elk Grove facility. When a part involves superalloys, extreme tolerances, or complex inspection requirements, the kind of work that brings long lead times, high tooling costs, or a flat no from other shops, this team takes it on. Machining the materials most suppliers avoid is the core of what the facility does.
Yes. CNC machining and high-precision grinding run under one roof, which gives tighter control and lower cost than sending grinding to a separate supplier. The equipment grinds multiple diameters in a single plunge and produces mirror-like surface finishes, with eight tool grinders on site.
Yes. The engineering team works with customers from design concept validation and prototyping through to production release, optimizing designs for manufacturability and cost along the way. That gives customers one partner from the first article through repeatable production.
