Wire parts and metal strips

Connector systems and electronics

Axfil supplies manufacturers in the electronics sector with custom-made, precision-machined, repeatable parts. We help all our customers to develop their innovations, particularly those in energy management, electronics, and domestic and industrial electrical power distribution sectors.

We work with the main copper alloys with or without precoating, steels and stainless steels for retaining parts, and silver and aluminium for more specialised applications. We also offer silver, gold, tin, nickel and zinc plating through our network of partners.

Our modular production system can adapt to your needs, accommodating any non-standard parts (due to their geometry or material used), from small-scale production to large-sized batches in excess of 10 million parts per year. Our tooling costs are very competitive in relation to mass production machines used to make standard generic parts.

Working to customer specifications, our engineering and design team can help customers identify and optimise the product and/or process requirements in line with their objectives.

Drawing on our knowledge and expertise in forming and precision pointing, we can manufacture simple and complex parts in large-sized batches, meeting industry-specific requirements in terms of quality, safety, reliability, corrosion protection and logistics.

Work performed

  • Electrodes
  • Electric power transmission tracks
  • Non-standard battery connectors
  • Cable clamps, connectors, contact bridges
  • Contact rods
  • Press-fit spring contacts
  • Terminal blocks
  • Test probes, electrodes, electrical contact test pins
  • Connector parts
  • Custom-made connector locking clips

Examples of work

Pods
Assembly clip
Connector pins
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Beauty and wellbeing

Axfil is a long-standing manufacturer of tattoo needles used in the beauty sector, in farming and for veterinarian use. We also supply mechanical and electrical components for a variety of beauty appliances, such as epilators.

We make parts in line with your specifications in small, medium or large-sized batches. Drawing on our knowledge and expertise in forming and precision pointing, we can manufacture parts that meet all of your requirements in terms of compliance with health and hygiene standards.

Fields of application: beauty and reconstruction tattooing, permanent makeup, veterinary tattoos, etc.

Work performed

  • Reparatory surgery
  • Permanent makeup
  • Needles for radio frequency devices in the medical aesthetic sector
  • Tattoo needles and hoop rods
  • Shafts for electric epilators

Examples of work

Stainless steel inserts
Needles
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Pointing
  • Bending
  • Stamping, piercing
  • Polishing, surface treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Luxury and textiles

Our attention to detail and the quality of our manufacturing is valued by numerous high-profile names in the French luxury and textile industry with whom we have built a trusted relationship over many years.

Our engineering and design team has all the necessary tooling expertise to apply its delicate and precise marking, bending and drawing techniques to make items in small, medium and large-sized batches.

We use high-quality wires and strips and perform all the necessary polishing and surface treatment to deliver an end result that meets the industry’s highest standards of excellence.

Work performed

  • Rods for unique lighting objects
  • Pins in nickel silver for chandeliers
  • Medal hooks
  • Racks for military decorations
  • Special needles for leatherwork
  • Needles for weaving
  • Tin contact bridges
  • Headed pins
  • Clips
  • Wiring harnesses
  • Round-ended awls
  • Needles for leatherwork and upholstering
  • Pins for boxes and lids

Examples of work

Racks for military decorations
Medal hooks
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Electricity and home automation

Axfil manufactures components and subassemblies for electrical networks and home automation. Our customers are among the leading distributors and suppliers to construction companies.

We manufacture precision parts for electrical cabinets, power transformers and automated devices designed to improve everyday comfort and autonomy at home and work.

Work performed

  • Turbine shafts
  • Engine shafts
  • Rings
  • Cam needles
  • Stainless steel chamfered pins
  • Inserts
  • Circuit breaker pins
  • Stamped aluminium pins
  • Test probes, electrodes, electrical contact test pins
  • Electrical connectors and pods
  • Clips, washers

Examples of work

Aluminium pins
Electrical contact
Base plates
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Expertise

  • Soft wire-drawing
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Light drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Leisure

Axfil is a historical supplier to makers of musical instruments (wind instruments and phonographs), from artisans to large manufacturers. With our expert industrial process, we can supply standard and custom-made parts that deliver precision, stability and repeatability, all mechanical characteristics that are highly valued by performers and music lovers of all categories. We are also valued for the visual quality of our blued watch hands, which even entered the stratosphere on the wrist of Thomas Pesquet!

We also cater to DIYers and lovers of the great outdoors. Our parts are used to equip a wide variety of sports equipment from cycling, climbing and skiing to hunting and sporting guns, as well as hooks for recreational fishing. We also make a variety of parts for portable power tools.

Work performed

  • Needles for wind instruments (saxophone, clarinet, etc.)
  • Needles for piano tuning
  • Phonograph needles
  • Tips for hooks
  • Rods, clips and pins for mechanical parts exposed to all weather conditions

Examples of work

Blued watch hands
Stainless steel inserts
Pointing
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • Precision bending
  • Stamping, piercing
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, bluing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Industry

Axfil is a partner for all sectors of industry. For example, we make dye lapping tools for high-precision wire-drawers and for a variety of companies that manufacture tyres, production consumables, and adjustment and wearing parts for tools.

Manufacturers are particularly exacting in the precision, quality and dimensional stability of these components, which are integrated in their high-output robotic production lines or used to calibrate tools. Time and again, Axfil has demonstrated its capacity to mass produce these items.

Work performed

  • Wire-drawing dye lapping tools
  • Container ballast shanks for biological samples
  • Drive pins for industrial cutting systems
  • Turbojet nacelle perforation studs
  • Industrial needles
  • Stainless steel inserts

Examples of work

Dye lapping tools
Retaining Pins
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Aerospace

Axfil is a partner to numerous manufacturers in the aeronautics and space sectors. Our parts can be found in engines, vehicle structures, connector systems and interior fittings. Drawing on our knowledge and expertise in forming and precision pointing, we can manufacture simple and complex parts in small, medium and large-sized batches in accordance with the requirements for performance, quality, safety and reliability.

Working to customer specifications, our engineering and design team can help customers identify and optimise the product and/or process requirements in line with their objectives.

Our production method is a cheaper alternative to turning, ensuring high rates of output and high levels of precision, including materials that are difficult to machine.

Work performed

  • Straight and curved inserts for plastic injected parts
  •  Spring pins, rings, cremone locking bolts, special clips
  • Pins for actuators, shearing pins
  • Housing centring pins in foundry or plastic injection
  • Ejector pins, moulding spindles, piercing tips
  • Connector tracks for cable bundles and devices, tin-plated contact bridges
  • Electrodes, electrical contact test pins

Examples of work

Headed pin with tip

Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Medical Equipment

Axfil manufactures parts in accordance with your specifications, in small, medium or large-sized batches for the medical and microbiology sector. Drawing on our knowledge and expertise in forming and pointing, we can manufacture simple and complex parts with the level of precision and hygiene needed for use in generic and specialised medical procedures.

We can machine all materials used in surgical procedures, including those for implant components.

Fields of application: ophthalmology, urology, cardiology, pneumology, angiology, oncology, gynaecology, neurosurgery, dentistry, veterinary medicine, analytical laboratories and biological sampling, etc.

Work performed

  • Surgical pins and nails
  • All forms of needles: probes, surgical, polished, nickel-plated, phynox, stainless steel and needles for ionisers
  • Stylets for cannulas, catheters, neurosurgery
  • Varicose vein hooks, cataract needles
  • Ophthalmic implant injectors
  • Swab rods, probe tips
  • Pincer, plunger and guide pins

Examples of work

Phynox injector wire
Dental probes
Medical needles
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Stamping, piercing
  • Polishing, surface treatment, ultrasound cleaning
  • Long-profile stylets (>1 metre)
  • 100% inspected in line with specifications

Wire parts and metal strips

Furnishings and construction

Axfil manufactures parts in line with your specifications, in small, medium or large-sized batches for the furnishing and construction sector. With our knowledge and expertise in machining metal materials, we can make simple and complex precision parts at competitive prices for an equally competitive sector.

Precision and quality are key to extending the useful life of components that undergo repeated mechanical stress. With our expertise in straightening, cutting and polishing high-resistance stainless steels, we can deliver precise and repeatable dimensional characteristics, together with parts with long profiles and a state-of-the-art surface quality.

For cylindrical parts, our production method offers a cheaper alternative to turning, allowing us to work with materials that are difficult to machine while maintaining a high level of precision and high rates of output.

Working to customer specifications, our engineering and design team can help customers identify and optimise the product and/or process requirements in line with their objectives.

Work performed

  • Linear-motion shock absorber pistons
  • Guide components for folding systems
  • Lock pins
  • Chamfered and stamped pins
  • Grooved pins
  • Special clips for fastening partitions, flooring and equipment
  • Precision washers
  • Solid rivets, flat, convex, conical-headed rivets
  • Linear guide slides

Examples of work

Stainless steel grooved pin
Headed pin with tip
Stainless steel pins
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning

Wire parts and metal strips

Cars and transport

Axfil works with a variety of suppliers in the automotive, aeronautics and rail sectors, particularly in the production of interior and exterior equipment, upholstery, electronic and power connector systems, optics, batteries, tyres, mechanics, powertrains and power units.

Working to customer specifications, our engineering and design team can help customers identify and optimise the product and/or process requirements in line with their objectives. Our production method is a cheaper alternative to turning, but still delivers a high level of precision.

Drawing on our knowledge and expertise in forming and precision pointing, we can manufacture simple and complex parts in large-sized batches, meeting industry-specific requirements in terms of quality, safety, reliability, corrosion protection and logistics.

Work performed

  • Linear-motion shock absorber pistons
  • Opening pins: doors, bonnets, fuel or electric-charging flaps, glove compartment doors, retractable screens, door handles
  • Straight and curved inserts for plastic injected parts
  • Spring pins, shearing pins, rings for headrest support rods, fuel flaps, gearstick knobs, special clips, etc.
  • Housing centring pins in foundry or plastic injection
  • Pinion pins for window-opening mechanisms and activators
  • Connector systems and tracks for cable bundles, optics, BMS (Battery Management System)

Examples of work

Knurled pins
Stamped pins
Retaining Pins
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Expertise

  • Straightening / Precision cutting
  • Simple and complex pointing, chamfering, hemispherical finishing in line with specifications
  • An array of precision bending
  • Cutting
  • Drawing
  • Stamping, piercing, knurling, cold heading
  • Tribofinishing, polishing, surface treatment, nickel-plating, tinning, anodisation, gold-plating, silver-plating, cataphoresis, thermal treatment, ultrasound cleaning