Packaging Manufacturing Tooling

Carbide Products, Inc. provides precision tooling and components for packaging equipment manufacturers and automation providers where reliability, throughput, and durability are critical. Our broad range of capabilities allows us to support prototype development, replacement wear components, and full production requirements across the packaging equipment lifecycle.

Customers, Past and Present

• Band-It Idex

• Ball Corporation

• OKL Engineering

• MBF North America

• Montebello Packaging

Engineering-Driven Packaging Equipment Manufacturing Partner

What differentiates Carbide Products, Inc. is our ability to operate as an engineering-focused manufacturing partner for packaging OEMs and automation equipment builders. We are not simply a contract machine shop. We work directly with engineering, maintenance, and production teams to improve component durability, reduce downtime, and ensure consistent machine performance across demanding production environments.

With decades of experience manufacturing precision components used in high-cycle industrial equipment, we understand the importance of wear resistance, tight tolerances, repeatability, and fast turnaround when equipment uptime directly impacts production output.

By combining engineering expertise with real-world machining experience, we help packaging equipment manufacturers extend tool life, improve machine reliability, and maintain consistent production quality in high-speed manufacturing applications.

Packaging Industry Support

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and cost-reduction analysis

• Wear component redesign and material optimization

• Tolerance stack-up review for machine reliability and repeatability

• Material selection consultation for abrasion, friction, and corrosion resistance

• Precision process development and tooling recommendations

• Prototype, validation, and production ramp support

• Replacement components for obsolete or legacy equipment

• Continuous improvement and lifecycle cost reduction initiatives

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.