Huyett enables customers to streamline their supply chains, purchase custom metal components, and access in-house manufacturing support solutions.

MINNEAPOLIS, Kan., Jan. 19, 2026 — State-of-the-art Swiss lathes enable Huyett to continue serving the fastener community through precision machining services. These Swiss-style lathes deliver tighter tolerances and reduced cycle times compared to traditional lathes, making them well-suited for producing the highly precise or difficult-to-source components customers require. Additional details about Huyett’s Swiss lathes are available at .

Pin Failure Issues? Enhanced Tolerances Provide the Solution 

Huyett’s Swiss Turn machines assisted a customer experiencing pin failure issues with a pump assembly. In a food-processing installation, the pump assembly needed regular cleaning, causing pins to dislodge during disassembly. While press-fit pins would typically be selected to prevent movement, the pin’s fragile tungsten composition made this approach unviable. Huyett’s skilled team utilized Swiss lathes to design a custom component with enhanced and reliable tolerances, minimizing failure risk.

“Swiss lathes excel at producing precision components,” stated Dewey Oxner, Huyett’s Director of Sales. “Our customer required tight tolerances, and the lathes enabled us to manufacture the exact part they needed.”

Difficulty Sourcing Parts? Custom Components Offer an Answer

In another instance, Huyett’s Swiss lathes enabled a distributor customer to secure additional business from an end user. During a facility walkthrough, the customer’s on-site representative recognized a valuable opportunity. “I saw him have a revelation,” recalled Chris Bell, Huyett Regional Sales Manager who managed the transaction. “He asked me to wait, then dashed across the facility and returned with three components. He presented them and inquired whether we could produce them on our Swiss Turn machines—naturally, the response was affirmative.” Huyett promptly provided quotes for the parts and eventually secured all three for the customer. “This created a win-win scenario,” Bell noted. “The end user streamlined their supplier network, our customer gained more business, and we had the opportunity to support them using our Swiss lathes.”

Swiss-style lathes have experienced rapid adoption across automotive, medical, and aerospace sectors in recent years, with continued market expansion. For Huyett, this investment represents both a strategic technological upgrade and a reinforcement of the Company’s dedication to delivering Odd Parts, Odd Lots, On Time: providing hard-to-find or custom components in customer-appropriate quantities, accompanied by short lead times and expedited, traceable shipping.

To learn more about Huyett and its comprehensive selection of industrial fasteners, premium lifting hardware, and adhesives, contact or visit .

Founded in 1906 by Guy Huyett in what is known as the “other Minneapolis,” the company stands among Kansas’s longest-running enterprises. Huyett serves as a premier innovator of products and services designed to assist industrial distributors in the fastener and premium lifting hardware markets, provided by customer-focused professionals committed to a Culture of Excellence.

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