Metal turning shops are where metals are machined: today, of course, modern turning and milling techniques are used to produce mechanical components, but working metal is actually a very ancient practice. Metalworking was already present in the great civilisations of the Middle East, which knew well how to distinguish precious metals from those used for working.
In ancient times metals were worked to build structures of all kinds, using techniques such as forging and hot and cold hammering. From these processes came hammering, hardening, refining, grinding and, step by step, the more modern turning and milling technologies. Turning shops in Veneto – a region with an important tradition in this kind of work – machine metals such as steel, aluminium, bronze and brass.
Turning and milling can produce precision mechanical components of many kinds.
Steel turning shops near Verona: CNC equipment too
Modern turning shops can carry out both conventional turning and milling and operations on numerically controlled machines, known as CNC. Of the two, CNC is now preferred: it delivers high production quality and considerable savings in machining time. And, crucially, it guarantees great precision, with tolerances measured in thousandths of a millimetre.