Today the number of custom metal stamping services have diminished from thousands after World War II to several hundred today. American metal stamping services are in direct competition with the likes of Mexico and China. Although some foreign countries make take the lead in manpower and sometimes tooling and part price, American companies lead the world in technology and innovation, not to mention efficiency.
Animated Manufacturing Company specializes in long-run custom metal stampings made to the design and order of our customers. We produce very simple custom metal stampings to very complex assemblies.
Any good custom metal stamping service can take a customer’s designs and produce either a simple blank die, a compound blank die, or very complex progressive dies. Some, like Animated, has four slide capabilities as well. A metal stamping service works with the customer to fulfill their needs. Custom metal stampings can range from the very small, using very thin material to the very large, using thick material. Custom metal stamping can be made of Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled, Cold Rolled Steel, High Carbon Steel, copper, brass, stainless steel or a wide variety of different alloys each formulated for a specific purpose in a particular environment.
Custom metal stamping are used in every industry everywhere in the world. From the simple, like a door hinge to the very complex—parts used on planes or even in missiles. Custom metal stamping that are made overseas have to be ordered in very large quantities to make it worth shipping around the world. Customers that are looking to fill orders of a few thousand parts to millions of custom metal stampings are wise to order from a local source.
Tool and die personal are trained to design tooling based on the custom metal stampings that are needed for that a particular purpose in mind. With fewer custom metal stamping services in recent times, there are fewer tool and die personal that can make tooling to make custom metal stampings.
There will always be a need for custom metal stamping services. As long as metal parts of all different shapes and sizes are needed, custom metal stampings will be around.
Custom metal stampings are the manufacturing art of the modern age. We would not have all the items that most households own without a metal stamping service producing them. Hours of tool designing goes into each and every custom metal stamping.
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