A collection of precision-machined aluminum and steel parts made by HPE

Engineering Services & Capabilities

From simple parts to complex tooling, HPE has the equipment and experience to handle your machining needs while minimizing start-up time and cost.

Aluminum thermoform tooling beside the clear and purple plastic trays it produces

Thermoform Tooling for Packaging

Form and trim tool design and manufacturing for food, medical and industrial thermoform packaging machines. Our background in plastics and thermoforming helps us design tooling around the way your machines and materials actually run.

Precision-machined aluminum spools, a spoked wheel and a slotted sleeve

Machine Parts & Components

Replacement and custom components for sealing machines, packaging lines and other production equipment, along with custom machine building. Send us a drawing, a sample part or just the problem you need solved.

Assorted precision-machined prototype parts in steel and aluminum

R&D & Prototype Parts

One-off and small-batch parts, materials consulting and product refinement. We help you get from an idea to a working part, then make the adjustments it takes to get it production-ready. Not sure what to make it from? Drawing on years of hands-on experience, we’ll recommend the material best suited to how the part will be used, how it needs to perform and what it will cost to make.

CNC control screen displaying a toolpath program for the HPE letters

Design, Drafting & Consulting

3D solid and wireframe modeling in SolidWorks, plus extrusion and forming consultation. Bring a finished design or a rough sketch—we can take it from concept to manufacturable drawings. Our consulting draws on decades of design and manufacturing experience. We’ll review your design for manufacturability, suggest changes that simplify machining or lower cost, and help work through problems before they turn into expensive changes down the line.

FANUC Robocut wire EDM machine on the shop floor

CNC Machining, Wire EDM & Grinding

In-house Mastercam programming drives our CNC vertical mills, turning center and wire EDM. Surface grinding and manual milling and turning round out the shop for tight-tolerance work.

Assembled spring-loaded aluminum rail component

Assembly

Many of the components we build are made up of multiple machined pieces. We assemble them in-house into a single finished product, whether that’s tooling, a subassembly or a complete machine, then package it carefully for delivery so it arrives ready to install.

Equipment

  • FANUC Robocut C600iB wire EDM2019
  • FANUC Alpha-1C wire EDM1999
  • Haas ST-30 CNC turning center21″ × 26″ · 2012
  • Haas ST-30 CNC turning center21″ × 26″ · 2019
  • Haas VM-3 CNC vertical machining center40″ × 26″ × 25″ travel · 2011
  • Haas VF-2SS CNC vertical machining center30″ × 16″ × 20″ travel · 2016
  • Haas VF-8 CNC vertical machining center64″ × 40″ × 30″ travel · 2014
  • Okamoto ACC 16 × 32 surface grinder2020
  • Miller Syncrowave 250 DX TIG welder
  • Millermatic 200 MIG welder

Technical Services

  • Thermoforming form & trim tool design
  • Thermoform tooling manufacturing
  • CNC programming
  • CNC vertical machining
  • CNC turning
  • R&D / prototype parts
  • Surface grinding
  • Wire EDM
  • Manufacturing of customer-designed projects
  • Assembly

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