Tools are our passion, small dimensions are our specialty and hard-to-machine materials are our challenge. The everyday life of Mikron Tool is around these attributes.

Credo

We are working daily to achieve a leadership position worldwide in high precision machining of small dimensions and challenging materials. This includes both the regular introduction of new and unique metal work tools on the market and the development of concrete solutions directly with the customers. In everything we undertake, the high level of competence is important. We are keeping up with that, whereby we concentrate on our strong points. Strong points such as best trained and motivated employees, intensive development activities or investing in most advanced production technologies.

Innovation

"Mikron Tool shows healthy growth due to its innovative products"

A product is considered NEW at Mikron Tool only when it is unique and with high added value for the user. Without doubt, this is true for every single CrazyLine product. The proof: Twice already new developments of Mikron Tool were distinguished with the Prodex Award, a Swiss innovation prize for the best new developments in the field of manufacturing and production.

Our goals are clear: To surprise every year with original "crazy" novelties, to expand regularly the product lines, to optimize the existing boring tool examples and develop new ones. To achieve all that, it is necessary to actively pursue innovation in all areas of the company. Therefore, we use the latest technological knowledge, constantly optimize our processes, train ourselves regularly and exchange our knowledge among us. In addition, we rely on the collective intelligence of a motivated workforce. Our employees bring not only their proposals for improvement but  also accept the responsibility for the realization of their ideas.

The offer

Our offer is always about the adequate processing solution with tungsten carbide cutting tools: the customer selects either a solution that is specific for him or a product from the standardized tool program, which is available directly from stock. The main emphasis is on small dimensions in the drill bits sizes with diameter from 0.1 to 6 mm (.004" to .236").

In the area of customer-specific tools, the offer comprises the centering and chamfering, milling, turning, grinding or deburring and up to complex combination tools in the diameter range between 0.1 mm and 32 mm (.004" - 1.260"). These tools, with a focus on the machining of difficult materials, offer a high degree of precision and applications. A single customer-specific tool can often replace a number of standard tools, reduce significantly the processing times while increasing precision. Hereby not the costs per tool but the costs per manufactured part are in the foreground.

The standardized tools of Mikron Tool come with highest performance, best quality, and precision directly from our stock. The offer comprises not only various types of drill bits, but also tools for centering, milling and deburring in the diameter range from 0.1 to 6 mm (.004" to .236"). However, the flexibility and adaptation to the requirements of the client is of a major importance here. Drill bit size, best suitable geometries, the right coatings - the possible variants are practically endless.

The segments

Our customers come from a wide variety of industry segments, wherever high volume production or where the precision repeatability is crucial. Also where small dimensions require extreme tolerances and when difficult to machine materials are an issue.

Automotive industry, watchmaking and jewelry industry, aerospace technology, medical and dental technology, machine and apparatus construction, tool and mold making, transport and conveyor technology, electric and electronics, writing instruments, food industry, petrochemical industry, fittings, hydraulic and pneumatic devices, household appliances are some segments where our tools are successfully being used.

Part of the Mikron Group

The Mikron Group develops and sells manufacturing and automation solutions for high-precision manufacturing processes. The Group, which is anchored in the Swiss innovation culture, is a worldwide active, leading partner of companies in the following industries: medical and pharmaceutical devices, consumer products, writing instruments and watchmaking .

The two divisions Mikron Automation and Mikron Machining have their main locations in Switzerland (Boudry and Agno). Additional production facilities are in Germany, Singapore, China and the USA. The around 1'100 employees of the Mikron Group can draw from more than 100 years of experience in providing manufacturing solutions for the production of high precision components in large volumes. The stock of Mikron Holding AG is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (MIKN).

Mikron Tool has achieved an excellent reputation as manufacturer of innovative tungsten carbide tools in the highest quality field. To justify this reputation and to maintain it in the long run requires the constant efforts of the entire team. Machining with carbide means for us everything, from defining the geometry, through the grinding and up to the coating as well as the pre-processing and post-processing of the tools. 

Innovative and specialized

Important for us is a high competence in everything we are doing. This is possible by specializing ourselves in a core area. Our strength is in the machining of smallest drill bits (from 0.1 mm (.004") drills), with focus on materials that are difficult to machine (e.g. from drilling of stainless steel and up to deburring of stainless steel, also drill bits for hardened steel, including all possible processing operations). To this purpose, we always offer new maximum solutions to our customers. In order to achieve highest precision, process reliability or processing speed, we are looking for the right raw materials and coatings, define the perfect geometries, test the cutting parameters and optimize the processes. 

Repeated precision in the µ-range

Thanks to the most modern means of production and measurement instruments, we are in a position to manufacture not only tools with a precision of +/- 0.0005 mm (.00002") but also to maintain the precision of the processing within this tolerance spread. And this not only once. At any reordering, the customer has the guarantee to receive an identical tool which obtains the same results when used with the same cutting parameters. This is unique worldwide. 

High performance

The tools of Mikron Tool always guarantee the highest performance, no matter if it is for customer-specific solutions or standardized products. Here "High Performance" means high processing speed, long tool life, high process reliability or excellent quality results. These arguments often go hand in hand and offer a clear added value to the user. He can reduce significantly the cost per part. 

Top quality from A to Z

We owe the high product and service quality to a motivated team which consists of developers, tool specialists, materials scientists, grinding specialists and technical sales representatives. For us the quality is more than the manufacturing of top products. The quality appears during the first contact with a potential customer, passes through the offer up to the grinding of the tool, from the packaging and shipping, through the image at trade fairs and up to the means of communication. Every employee in our company has a commitment to the quality, everyone bears the full responsibility for his work. 

We require top quality also from our partners and thus we work only with the best carbide suppliers and coatings specialists. 

The certification according to the ISO standards is self-evident for us. Since 2000, since the first ISO 14001 certification, we have been working continuously on the quality of our processes, their reliability and environmental compatibility. 

We are now in possession of all important certificates in our industry (ISO 9001; ISO 14001 and OHS 18001). 

We are learning from and with the customers

An important element of our way to work is the customer contact. Customers have confidence in our solid carbide drill bits with their long lifetimes and excellent cutting properties. For many the comprehensive tools engineering is very important. Mikron Tool is particularly strong and flexible in this respect. Together with our customers, we develop products, perform machining tests and consult with them for the high-volume production. And our commitment does not end here; when we say engineering, we understand also the observation of the manufacturing process as well as the optimization of the processes and the tools during their use in the production. 

Service is in the center

In short, we implement the comprehensive service principle: We accompany, consult and support our customers in the course of the entire lifespan of the product.

Together with the engineering, the further offerings build a multi-service package: The testing of the tools as well as QC records belong to it just as the re-sharpening of worn tools and the customer-oriented logistics service. 

Logistics means close to the customer

The fast and easy delivery channels to the customers are important to us: The complete product palette is available also from our stock in Germany and is distributed quickly and without customs formalities within the entire Euro area. Our subsidiary in the USA has its own inventory for the customers throughout North and South America.