Fastener & Cold Forming Tooling

Carbide Products Inc. provides precision tooling and wear components for fastener manufacturing and cold forming environments where tool life, dimensional accuracy, and production up-time are critical to profitability. Our broad manufacturing capabilities allow us to support everything from prototype tooling development to high-volume production components used in demanding, high-speed forming operations.

With decades of experience machining carbide, hardened tool steels, and specialty alloys, we understand the extreme stresses involved in cold heading and forming applications. Our tooling is designed to maintain performance under high loads, repeated impact cycles, and abrasive wear conditions.

Customers, Past and Present

• ITW Ramset

• YKK Americas

• Paslode

• TIP-Top Screw Manufacturing

• Vogelsang Fastener Solutions, Inc.

Our Fastener Industry Engineering Support Includes

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for forming tooling

• Geometry optimization for tool longevity and performance

• Material selection consultation for wear resistance and toughness

• Surface finish and coating preparation recommendations

• Prototype tooling development and validation support

• Production tooling repeatability and replacement programs

• Reverse engineering and redesign of legacy tooling

• Continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives

• Manufacturing problem solving for premature tool failure

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.

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.