Duonetics was formed in 1963, when Founder Charles Pernice made the move from New York to Southern California. As a sales representative in the balancing field, he saw the need for a company offering balancing services to the aerospace and related industries. Today, the company continues to develop new services and opportunities with acting President and Founder's son, Robert Pernice.

Polynetics owns its own 11,000-sq-ft building. The company operates a solid line up of precision equipment, including 3, 4 and 5-axis mills, precision turning centers, honing equipment, and 5 Hoffman balancers with capacities ranging from a few ounces to 1500 lbs.

“But even with all our equipment, it wasn’t enough,” Pernice says. “Some of our cryogenic customers have been asking for very complex machining, and I was having to turn it down. However, I knew I could capture a lot of that work, if I had 5-axis capability. So, I recently bit the bullet and bought a new Deckel Maho DMU 60 monoBlock 5-axis milling mill. It was a big move for us, but we’ve already booked a fair amount of work for it and prospects are good for more, especially once we let our customers know we have it. We bought the machine because we wanted to expand our capabilities, and it has. It’s been on the floor only two months, but it has already opened new horizons for us.”

Now that he has made the big move to 5-axis machining, how does Pernice see the future for his company? “Well, we have a really nice niche with our combination of balancing and machining,” he says. “And now that we have the DMU 60, I predict our company will grow rapidly from here on in. I have work booked already, and once I let our customers know of our new capability, I expect all the work we can handle. My long-term goal is to grow, and this machine is our first big step to getting there.”

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