The Twin Cities metro is a major hub for medical device manufacturing — home to Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and hundreds of contract machine shops serving the med-tech supply chain. Swiss turning, micro-machining, and precision grinding dominate the local shop landscape.
Mill-Turn Capabilities
4140, 4340, 8620 alloy steels. 303, 304, 316L stainless. 6061/7075 aluminum. Brass, bronze. Ti-6Al-4V. Inconel 718. Delrin, nylon, PEEK.
±0.0005" on diameters. ±0.001" on milled features. Concentricity 0.001" TIR. True position ±0.002" on cross-holes relative to turned datums.
OD/ID turning, live-tool milling, cross-drilling, tapping, grooving, threading, knurling, keyways, flats, hex profiles, and C-axis contouring — all in one setup.
Live tooling with C-axis and Y-axis capability. Sub-spindle for complete backworking. Prototypes through production runs.
Industries in Minneapolis
Medical device OEMs and contract manufacturers, aerospace component suppliers, agricultural equipment producers, and defense contractors.
How It Works
Submit your project through the Axhera Network — upload a drawing or describe the work. The network matches you with verified shops in the Minneapolis area that have the right machines, the right experience, and open capacity. You get quotes directly from the shop doing the work, not through a markup layer.