Core Services
Every process that touches your part.
One partner. One timeline. One point of accountability.
Precision CNC Machining
Machining that stands up to engineering scrutiny.
Every component begins with the fundamentals: machine capability, process control, and attention to detail. From one-off prototypes to production batches, we manufacture precision parts with the tolerances, finishes, and repeatability demanding industries expect.
Complex geometries. Tight tolerances. Critical surfaces.
Low-Volume Manufacturing
Production without production headaches.
Not every program requires thousands of parts. Whether you're validating a design, supporting a pilot program or supplying ongoing low-volume demand, we provide consistent manufacturing without requiring high-volume commitments.
Scalable processes. Predictable quality. Reliable delivery.
Product Development
From concept to manufacturable hardware.
The best products are engineered with manufacturing in mind from the beginning. We work alongside your team to refine designs, select materials, reduce complexity, and prepare components for efficient production without compromising performance.
Engineering and manufacturing, seamlessly aligned.
Mold Making & Tooling
The tooling behind reliable production.
Tooling determines what production becomes. We design and manufacture molds, fixtures, jigs, and production tooling engineered for repeatability, durability, and long service life.
The better the tool, the better every part that follows.
Fuel Cell Manufacturing
Three decades building hydrogen hardware.
Core Tools has long served as the strategic manufacturing and development partner for Canada’s clean hydrogen sector, supporting companies through rapid commercial scaling, R&D, critical pivots, and major acquisitions. But clean energy lives in microscopic details: fuel cell and electrolyzer components leave very little room for geometric error. Traditional manufacturing methods often expose hidden material stresses, leading to critical stack failures.
Our process is built around dimensional stability: low-stress workholding and staged stress relief between roughing and finishing. Our processes deliver superior flatness and parallelism, ensuring true geometric stability. Finished components arrive assembly-ready, minimizing secondary processing. The uncompromising quality built for hydrogen now shapes every component we deliver.
The Work
Parts tell the story better than we can.
- Circular aluminum platen with a spiral-machined face and copper-alloy inserts
- Two large machined aluminum domes on a machine table, one concave and one convex
- Three knurled thumbscrews with shouldered threaded studs
- Row of L-shaped aluminum brackets with drilled mounting holes
- Copper plates with dense arrays of small drilled holes
- Assortment of small machined parts in plastic, brass and steel
- Matched pair of aluminum mold plates with machined pockets
- Large thin-wall aluminum cylinder with drilled side holes
- Workholding fixtures with wing-nut clamps holding sheet-metal blades
- Five stainless steel sleeves with stepped and grooved ends
- Production run of brass valve stems in a shipping box
- Dial indicator checking runout on a part held in a lathe chuck
- Aluminum housing with a large bore, sealing face and tapped holes
- Rows of threaded hex-flange fittings from a production run
- Brass grooved cylinder resting on the engineering drawing it was made from
- Long aluminum plate with fine parallel grooves and machined pockets
- Aluminum fittings with threaded ports and flanged bases
- Aluminum manifold blocks with bored and threaded ports, a cover plate and a flange
- Finned aluminum fixtures with clear acrylic panels
- Machined clevis brackets with bored eyes and slotted jaws
- Brass flare fittings with hex bodies and threaded ports
- Circular aluminum plate with a spiral-machined face and ported bosses
- Machined dome with a ring of ports and a central cone
- Folded and welded sheet-metal enclosure
- Large aluminum cylindrical housing with a bolted flange and side port
- Rows of amber polymer and steel discs with machined pockets
- Thin plate with a dense field of fine parallel slots
- Stacked plates with machined flow-field channels and ports