TOOLING TECHNOLOGIES

Forte offers a variety of tool and die services to help create custom projects for a variety of industries.

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Collaborate with customers from start to finish

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Use Solidworks CAD design to see projects in 3D

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Design from print or reverse engineer from sample

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Have ability to test tooling to ensure performance from the start

What we do

Tool Design & Build, Mold Making, Jigs and Fixtures, Prototype, Surface Grinding

Tool Design & Manufacture

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Our team can create the best solution for your manufacturing needs by providing you with premium tools, stamping, forming, and innovative ideas. We have decades of experiences using machines to create precision metal parts, instruments, and tools for a variety of purposes and industries.

We can determine the tonnage required for your project and can design around existing equipment. We are able to design and produce many different styles of dies, including but not limited to:

Draw
Progressive
Forming
Blanking

Shearing
Punch
Custom break tooling

Mold Making

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Our experienced journeymen can produce permanent, rotational, plastic injection, and lost foam molds. It’s another part of the process when it comes to casting many of our metal products.

Permanent mold for aluminum casting out of cast iron and P20

Patterns out of various materials for sand casting
Molds for investment casting

Jigs and Fixtures

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Ranging from simple drilling fixtures to complex welding and assembly fixtures, Forte produces a variety of innovative jigs and fixtures, to help bring your idea to life. Some projects require unique jigging requirements, but we have the expertise to make sure that the location and motion of all tools are fixed and controlled. Let us know what your needs are, and we can design the right tool to meet them.

Holding fixtures for production machining
High-precision inspection jigs and gauges, including thread gauges and go/no-go gauge

Various welding jigs for tacking and full welding, including balanced rotational jigs, sub jigs, stand alone or table top.
Can accommodate parts up to 15+ feet in length

Prototypes

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To ensure we get it right, Forte’s prototyping process involves testing iterations of a machine so that we know it’s ready for the production line.

Whether you’re entering a new market or you need a concept tested, we can assist your business in knowing what works and what doesn’t.

Quick turnaround
Complex geometries
Small runs
Reverse engineer samples

Countless material options
Flexible to design changes and testing
Confidential process

Surface Grinding

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Surface grinding is used to produce a smooth finish on flat surfaces. Forte can help service a variety of cutting tools.

Able to accomodate parts up to 12” x 36”
Obtain tolerances of .0001”

Use to sharpen and produce die components
Produce fits and finishes not possible with conventional machining

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Our demand exceeded our capacity and UltraSpan needed to find an alternative to meet that requirement. Outsourcing was a solution, and Forte helped deliver.

UltraSpan

I would highly recommend Forte to everybody without hesitation. They are a very professional organization and I can tell that they strive for customer service excellence. I have found them to be extremely competitive, courteous and knowledgeable, while remaining flexible and easy to deal with.

Assistant Branch Manager, Source Atlantic Ltd.