Engineered for Tight-Tolerance Applications
Boston Centerless supplies precision materials and pre-production blanks for your machining needs. We can precision grind bar material to your exact specifications from our extensive inventory. If we do not have the material in stock, we are experts at sourcing a wide variety of metals and plastics from high quality mills and distributors.
Our team is able to perform our centerless grinding services on raw materials that we procure as well as materials procured by our customers.
The high-grade materials that Boston Centerless procures combined with our grinding capabilities will ultimately reduce your manufacturing costs. The extremely precise straightness and roundness of AccuRod® enables increased feeds and speeds, as well as longer tool life, resulting in lower per part cost. By partnering with Boston Centerless, you can create parts that can be reliably manufactured in large volumes with outstanding OEE.
Our precision ground bar materials improve manufacturability and maximize shop throughput for our customers. In fact, yields are estimated to increase between 30-60% with Skilled Material from AccuRod®.
When partnering with an integrated service provider like Boston Centerless, value-added services become an extension of the precision grinding process, delivering a complete manufacturing solution. Our value-added services include heat treating, straightening, laser marking, and material testing and validation.
When combined with our precision grinding operations, these steps often reduce costs, decrease time to market, increase productivity, enhance quality, and improve responsiveness for our customers. Our company has 3 distribution centers that are strategically located across the United States. Our customers are able to take advantage of a myriad of finished goods that are held at these centers, minimizing the lead times of our products. Our locations include Woburn, MA; Minneapolis, MN; and Fort Wayne, IN.
All precision ground bar stock is machined using best-in-class equipment to ensure our customers’ specifications are met every single time. Our team supplies a range of precision raw materials including stainless steels, steels, premium medical grade alloys, plastics, and more. View the pages below for specific grades we can supply:
12 ft. Bars
12 ft. Bars
Cut-lengths or Components
Diameters
.040 to 3.00″
.005″ to 3.00″
Diameter Tolerances
to .0001″
to .000040″ (40 millionths)
Roundness
to .000020″ (20 millionths)
to .000020″ (20 millionths)
Straightness
to .003″ per ft.
to .0005″ per ft.
Surface Finish
to 8 Ra
to 2 Ra
We’ve answered your top questions about material sourcing here at Boston Centerless. Want to know more? Contact us today.
Boston Centerless provides a wide range of precision raw materials including stainless steel, carbon and alloy steels, titanium, medical-grade alloys, red metals, special alloys, aluminum, and plastics—each engineered for tight-tolerance machining.
Yes. Boston Centerless can perform precision centerless grinding on both customer-supplied materials and materials sourced directly from our extensive inventory, ensuring every bar meets your exact specifications.
