06/02/2026
A single-operation die does one thing: punches, bends, or forms in one press stroke. To make a complex part, you’d need multiple operations, multiple setups, multiple presses, multiple chances for dimensional variation to accumulate.
A progressive die does all of it in one tool. The strip of metal feeds through a mechanical press sequentially: pierced here, drawn there, trimmed, formed, finished, and a completed part drops out with every stroke.
The difference in throughput: a well-designed progressive die can produce over 90 parts per minute. Multi-op production might manage 10–15 per minute with changeover.
We build progressive dies with 20 separate operations in a single tool. A single progressive die can represent well over $100,000 in engineering and tooling, designed to produce millions of precision parts over decades.
Progressive stamping is automation before there was automation.
For volume production of complex stampings, progressive tooling isn’t just faster. It’s categorically different.
We design and build ours in-house.