At ACF we know how important planning is. Extra time spent tweaking the part progression and tool layout can shorten the time required during the part development phase. Add to this our depth of knowledge in the fields of metal flow, tool design, tool manufacturing, part development, secondary machining, and production cold forming, all contributing to the success of your projects. We understand the many facets of your business because we have worked in each one.

We have experience tooling parts from micro-former size up to as large as 50mm in diameter and everything in between. If you have a machine not listed here, we will design tools for any piece of equipment.

  Hydraulic and mechanical presses 
  National FORMAX - up to FXP76
  National cold formers including - up to 1875
  National No. 245 Forming Center
  National 204 and 205XL cold formers
  National boltmakers  - up to 1-1/4
  National progressive headers - up to 3/4
  National roller headers
  National cold headers - up to 3/4
  National 3 blow, 2 die headers - up to 1012
  National cold nut formers - up to 1"
  National No. 3 Micro-former
  Waterbury
  Hatebur
  Sakamura
  Schuler
  SACMA
  Nakashimada
  Asahi Sunac
  Jern Yao
  Nedschroef

We are also familiar with the following machines:

  Carlo Salvi
  Moroni
  Matsumoto cold formers
  Multi-Press slr
  Open-die machines

These are varying projects we have successfully designed or directed the design of over 40 years in the metal forming industry.

• All types of cold formed parts from basic standard fasteners to complex specials requiring as many as six forming stations in one machine

• Short and long parts

• Parts requiring flattening parallel to the centerline

• Parts requiring flattening and a thru-hole pierced perpendicular to the centerline (complete in the header)

• Parts requiring draw-wiping the O.D.

• Parts extruded with splines or involute tooth forms

• Parts requiring side-marking with logo or part number

• Parts requiring trimming

• Tubular parts

• Parts with special shapes extruded inside or outside

• Parts with a slot extruded over a blade

• Parts requiring segmented tooling to open and clear a part feature after forming

• Parts requiring forming a blank in the header followed by annealing and coating and then feeding into a press to complete

• Parts formed from low to high carbon steel, alloy steels, copper and brass, aluminum, stainless steel, lead, platinum, etc. 

• A full set of tools including die-set used in the power metal industry to form titanium horseshoes for race horses

• A full set of tools including die-set to trim a video disc master with 53,000 lines of information already on it. The information could not be touched at any time during the process or the master would be ruined. The I.D. and O.D. were trimmed within .0004 T.I.R. burr free.