Carbide Tooling

Tooling, used to produce customers' product, is made by GLE in many different configurations. We manufacture special wear parts, drill bushings, punches, dies and die inserts for forming, piercing, perforating, swaging, sealing, crimping and compacting. We produce die plates and die inserts for extruding, drawing and sizing. We provide special tools for burnishing, roll forming, grooving and broaching. We have manufactured locating pins, contact tips and pads, core pins, and many other details to customer print.

Some of the products manufactured by our customers that use carbide tooling are: Batteries, metal cans, ammunition, electronics, computers and peripheral equipment, fasteners (rivets, bolts, etc.), pharmaceutical products, (pills, band aids, etc.), wire springs, internal combustion engines, carburetion, transmission systems, pumps, compressors, bearings, aerospace engines, venetian blinds, ceramic products, foundries, screw machine products, food processing, stamping products, electric motors, generators, machine tools, EDM operations, appliances, semiconductors, and many other metalworking operations.