Fasteners & Cold Forming · Georgetown, KY
Tooling Built for
High-Volume Cold Forming.
CPI manufactures precision tooling and wear components for fastener manufacturers and cold forming operations where tool life, dimensional accuracy, and production uptime directly impact your profitability.
Why CPI
Your Tooling Performance
Is Our Niche.
CPI operates as an engineering-driven manufacturing partner for fastener manufacturers and cold forming operations. We don't just supply tooling — we work directly with production engineers, tooling managers, and operations teams to optimize geometry, improve material flow, and maximize tool life in high-volume forming environments.
With over 80 years of experience manufacturing precision carbide tooling for demanding forming applications, we understand the pressures of high-speed production: wear resistance, dimensional accuracy, and process efficiency. Tool performance directly impacts your uptime, scrap rates, and profitability — and we engineer to those outcomes.
When a tooling problem is costing you production time, CPI is who fastener manufacturers call.
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How We Support Fastener & Cold Forming Operations
From tooling geometry optimization to high-volume replacement programs, CPI brings engineering expertise directly to your challenges.
Engineering
DFM for Forming Tooling
Process and geometry review before tooling is cut — identifying preventable failure modes and optimizing for material flow and tool longevity.
Performance
Geometry Optimization
Tooling geometry engineered for the specific demands of your forming operation — improving die fill, reducing wear, and extending service intervals.
Materials
Material & Coating Selection
Expert guidance on carbide grades, hardened steels, and coating options for the specific abrasive and impact conditions of your application.
Development
Prototype & Validation Support
Prototype tooling development with engineering input throughout — so you're not learning about a design flaw at production speed.
Production
Tool Design For Re-manufacturing
Design a tool that can be easily re-manufactured, extending its useful life and reducing cost and downtime.
Troubleshooting
Premature Wear Analysis
Root-cause investigation and redesign when tooling isn't lasting as long as it should — identifying material, geometry, or process-driven failure modes.
What We Deliver
Capabilities, Applications & Materials
Processes
- Precision CNC Milling
- Precision CNC Turning
- Precision CNC Grinding
- Wire EDM
- Sinker EDM
- Brazing & Assembly
- Heat Treat Applications
Tooling Applications
- Cold heading dies
- Carbide inserts
- Punches & ejector pins
- Trim dies
- Wear components
- Tooling holders & support components
- Wafio & point dies
Materials
- Tungsten Carbide
- Hardened Tool Steels
- High-Performance Alloys
- Top-of-Line Coatings
Tolerances & Precision
Tight Tolerances That Survive High-Speed Forming.
For grinding and EDM work, we regularly hold ±.0002″ (5 micron). Our high-end milling and turning centers are dialed in to ±.0005″. In cold forming, dimensional accuracy isn't a spec — it's a production requirement. We deliver it consistently.
Quality & Reliability
Documented Quality at Every Stage — Not Just Final Inspection.
Each department runs its own Keyence optical inspection, gauge pins, and comparators. Every job is inspected multiple times before final QC. Inspection data is serialized and stored indefinitely — so when a production issue surfaces, the data is already there.
Ready to Start?
Let's Talk About
Your Forming Tool Challenge.
Tell us what's wearing out too fast or costing you uptime. Our engineers have solved this problem before — probably for someone in your industry.