Profile: Lakes Precision, Inc. offers wire processing perishable tooling. We are an ISO 9001:2000 certified company. We provide a wide variety of value added services and programs to assist our customers. Our services include application engineering, certificates of compliance, custom blade design, engineering design and wire sizing evaluation. We have in-house manufacturing capabilities to allow complete part manufacturing. These manufacturing processes include sub contract manufacturing, and customized premium coating. We provide physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating process. This process produces a metal vapor deposited electronically on conductive material to provide coatings that enhance surface hardness, wear resistance, friction reduction, and finish. We provide a number of different coatings to meet the needs of industrial, medical, or decorative applications. Whether it is the simplest or the most complex form, these coatings have excellent adhesion and uniformity. PVD coating thickness varies according to the application. Each application is unique depending on its functional or decorative purpose, and the type of coating applied to the substrate. We have the ability to customize the coating requirements to fulfill specific application needs.