Aerospace Tooling Manufacturing

Carbide Products Inc. provides precision carbide tooling and complex component manufacturing for aerospace applications where reliability, tight tolerances, and material performance are critical. With over 80 years of manufacturing experience, our team supports aerospace suppliers with advanced machining, grinding, EDM, and brazing processes all performed under one roof in central Kentucky .

Customers, Past and Present

• Fives Machining Systems, INC

• Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Northrup Grumman

• Parker Hannifin O Ring Division

• ShockForm Aeronatique, INC

Applications

• Tooling for aerospace component manufacturing

• Carbide wear components

• Precision ground components

• Complex tooling assemblies

• Reverse engineered legacy tooling

• Precision ground tool steel pins

Tolerances & Precision

We are capable of holding extremely tight tolerances depending on geometry and material requirements. These tolerances are often in the range of +/- 0.0002” (5 micron) for our grinding and EDM processes. More recently, thanks to our acquisition of a few high end machining centers we are quickly getting down to +/- 0.0005” (+/- 0.012mm) for our mill and turning work centers.

Capabilities Under One Roof

• Precision CNC milling

• Precision CNC turning

• CNC grinding

• Wire EDM

• Sinker EDM

• Brazing and assembly

Quality & Reliability

While our facility does not currently maintain formal certifications, quality control is embedded throughout our manufacturing process. We emphasize process consistency, experienced craftsmanship, and inspection discipline to ensure reliable performance in demanding aerospace applications.

To achieve the highest quality parts we have invested heavily in our inspection equipment. Each department has access to their own optical comparators, gauge pins, jo blocks, surface plates, and other metrology tools. Our milling department is equipped with their own Keyence optical inspection device allowing for easy setup validation and first part inspection and documentation.

Our inspection lab is equipped with a full range of gauge pins, jo blocks, micrometers, bore mics, and indicators. In addition to the traditional methods listed above our inspection lab is equipped with two state of the art Keyence inspection devices. Every inspection device that we have is serialized and subject to inspection and calibration on a regular basis.

Each job that goes through our shop is subject to inspection multiple times before process completion with final QC. Thanks to this process are able to create serialized and detailed inspection reports to ensure process traceability all the way to the material lot. Even if that level of inspection is not required for your parts we will record all final inspection data and store it on our server indefinitely because in our shop data is king.