Our Stamped Metal Parts at a Glance
- Extensive Metal Stamping Capabilities: With more than 50 years of experience, producing stamped metal parts in the United States since our inception, Valco offers custom metal stamping for various industries, utilizing presses ranging from 5 to 200 tons. This range allows our team to create diverse components like fasteners, hinges, brackets, and connectors, tailored to specific applications across numerous industries.
- Industry-Specific Solutions: Our stamping processes cater to a wide range of industries, including farming, construction, healthcare, automotive, aerospace and much more. Our stamped components provide high precision and durability, essential for sectors where reliability is key.
- Prototyping and Customization: Valco’s prototyping department is equipped to create custom metal dies, ensuring precise production runs. Our engineering team collaborates closely with clients to design innovative and effective prototypes for unique industry requirements.
- Supplementary Services: In addition to metal stamping, Valco offers CNC machining, screw machining, tool and die manufacturing, slide forming, and secondary operations like drilling, welding, and heat treating. These additional capabilities enable us to deliver truly comprehensive solutions.
- Global Distribution and Quality Assurance: We are able to ship stamped parts directly worldwide, providing a seamless process with reliable quality control. Along with our other certifications, we hold an ISO 9001:2015 certification, ensuring consistent and high-quality results.
At Valco, we are a leading manufacturing company in Cleveland, Ohio that provides custom metal stampings to perfectly suit your needs. Our metal stamping department is equipped with presses with a capacity ranging from 5 to 200 tons, enabling us to produce a wide variety of custom metal die stampings for essential products for just about any application you may need. Our dies are made in-house in our tool room, where we build and maintain single-station, progressive and four-slide dies.
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An Overview of Our Custom Metal Stamping Process
As industry veterans know, metal stamping takes a flat metal sheet and converts it into specific shapes. This process can be complex and includes different metal forming techniques like punching, piercing, bending, and beyond. The dies used in metal stamping are typically made of tool steel, which is strong enough to cut other types of metals while keeping the tolerances required by a project.
Custom metal stamping is essential in industries where complex parts are needed. These industries typically require large quantities of intricate parts that are produced quickly and cost-effectively, which is easily achieved by using a custom die.
What materials can successfully be stamped with custom metal stamping dies?
Our team uses custom metal stamping dies to shape different materials into their desired form, regardless of the complexity. Effective custom metal stamping can be accomplished on a variety of materials, including the following:
- Aluminum
- Cold-rolled steel
- Hot-rolled steel
- Stainless steel
- Spring steel
- Beryllium copper
- Brass
- Monel
- And more!
Reach out if you have questions on whether your material is a candidate for progressive metal stamping.
What can be produced with custom metal stamping?
Our custom metal stamping dies can produce a variety of parts. With its ability to create everything from hardware to electrical components and beyond, the process is extremely useful and versatile. Learn more about the creations you can achieve with our custom metal stamping dies:
- Hardware – Examples include custom Valco snap buttons, brackets, hangers, hinges, and washers for a variety of items like store displays, doors, signage, lighting, and more
- Specialty items – These include components that go into your household goods such as electronics, tables, locks, power tools, and more
- Electrical parts – Examples include cups, covers, fasteners, and clips
- Fasteners – These include snap buttons, clips, or other complicated contact elements
- Components for machines – Parts may be used for grills, ice machines, stoves, air fryers, microwaves, toasters, and beyond
What are the advantages of custom metal stamping?
Using a custom metal stamping die to create stamped parts can help you reduce downtime and boost ROI, as the process is quick and reliable. Check out some of the additional benefits of standard and custom metal stamping services:
- The costs of metal stamping are low, compared to other processes
- The process is highly automated which can enhance accuracy
- Secondary costs such as plating or cleaning are relatively low
- Increased precision is possible by way of the incorporation of highly technical computer programs
- Faster production and turnaround times
- Lower cost of labor, since the process is very automated
Valco’s Abilities as Your Custom Metal Stamping Manufacturer
Valco is willing to work with you on small or large production runs, tailored to your exact needs. Our team is committed to providing you with custom metal stampings that guarantee satisfaction and exceed your expectations. We are able to fabricate from both strip and wire, expanding our assortment of custom metal stamping offerings.
Read on to learn more about our custom metal stamping service and capabilities for Cleveland businesses, along with those all over the world.
Custom Metal Stamping for a Variety of Industries
For more than 50 years, we have worked to modify and perfect our abilities in creating custom metal stamping dies to tailor them to unique applications.
Throughout the course of our lengthy history, Valco has had the good fortune to be able to work with a diverse range of businesses in many essential industries. These include:
- Home Care
- Healthcare
- Construction, Mining, and Engineering
- Child Safety and Nursery Equipment
- Sporting Goods and Recreation
- Retail and Office
- Automotive
- Aerospace
And though we have many ready-made fasteners for all of these industries and more, we know that as new products emerge or old ones are modified, changes to their functionality may need to be made.
Our experienced team has been innovating in the manufacturing field for decades and we’re ready to take on your next project. We are committed to making sure your progressive metal stamping challenges have a solution, no matter how complex they may be. Visit our process page to learn more about our team, our operations, and how we can apply our skills to your products.
You can also learn more about our precision metal stamping operations and capabilities on our videos page. In select videos, we give comprehensive overviews of our product lines, provide product selection tips, highlight the endless advantages of working with Valco, and much more.
Developing Custom Metal Stampings
At Valco, one of the best aspects of our metal stamping service is our ability to customize metal components for our clients, taking their ideas from concept to design all the way through to a finished, functional piece. A large part of this process is because of our ability to create custom metal stamping dies that are specialized to your specific application.
When it comes to innovative solutions for custom metal stampings, we understand you may need to try a few options first. Our skilled prototyping department is dedicated to helping you craft exactly what you need and providing effective solutions for your blueprints.
Our progressive metal stamping department works in conjunction with our various departments, including our Tool Room, CNC Turning Center, Automatic Screw Machine Department, and more.
No matter what your industry or application is, we can craft a worthwhile solution through our custom metal stamping services to meet your essential requirements. We also work with a variety of product development firms, supplying them with key components to make their clients’ products functional.
Our Abilities Beyond Creating Custom Metal Stamping Dies
At Valco, our ability to provide additional services incorporating several different departments is the core to creating custom metal parts for your products. Our supplemental services for precision metal stamping include the following.
CNC Turning & Screw Machine Department
As part of our mission to fulfill your production needs, our CNC turning center and screw machine department can accommodate up to 1 5/8” diameter bar stock. Some of the products we can supply include:
- Specialty screws
- Fittings
- Pins
- Specialty nuts
- Caps
- Connectors
- Shafts
Valco’s slide-forming department is equipped with multiple metal forming machines, allowing for diverse products for a wide span of metal parts and products including:
- Cord clips
- Mining drill bit clips
- Snap buttons
- Specialty application fasteners
Our metal stamping team specializes in four-slide stamping products including flat springs, metal spring clips, and metal stampings. Our unique department has multi-slide forming capabilities as well, allowing us to produce intricately shaped stampings to cater to your exact needs.
To ensure our customers’ manufacturing needs are completely met, Valco proudly offers a full Tool Room, press room, and four-slide department, along with a host of secondary options, to develop high-quality, precision metal stamping for each and every client.
Additional Products at Valco
In addition to custom metal stampings, we offer specialty fasteners and a variety of other products designed for specialized purposes, such as:
- Snap buttons
- Sign hangers
- Cube and round stops for garment racks
- Collet locks
- Spring plungers
- Cord clips
- Spring button clips
If you don’t see exactly what you’re looking for, be sure to check out our PDF product catalog for more information about our full selection of products and services.
The Benefits of Using Our Custom Metal Stamping Services
Our team of engineers has valuable industry knowledge and custom metal stamping experience ready to be utilized to help you develop any metal stamping and screw machine assembly. When you choose Valco as your custom metal stamping service provider, you’ll receive numerous advantages, including:
- All products made in the USA
- Convenience of being a full-service manufacturer with a seamless production process
- Ability to ship to any location worldwide
- Diverse selection of products and services with little upfront cost for the customer
- Computerized production control for maximum efficiency
- Ability to develop prototypes with a variety of materials
- Large inventory of components readily available, allowing for same-day delivery
- Global supplier of products with a distributor in Europe, granting quick service overseas
Contact Valco Today for All of Your Custom Metal Stamping Needs
We have been a leading metal stamping service for more than 50 years, and we look forward to helping your company meet its own unique custom metal stamping needs. No matter what you’re thinking of for your products or your parts when it comes to custom metal stampings, we are here to help.
Contact Valco today so we can get to work on your custom metal stamping dies for products that fit seamlessly into your application.