Category: Considerations
Working With Alternative Materials: Consider Your Options for Stamped Components

By the time you’re ready to select a progressive stamper, your design is pretty well locked in, decisions about materials are made, and you’re ready to pull the trigger on production. Before doing so, it might be worth considering alternative metal materials or processes in the interest of saving money, time, or both. Won’t it…
Progressive Die Stamping vs. Fine Blanking Operations
Choosing the Right Option for Your Next Stamping Project Having options in manufacturing gives you an advantage. Take the example of miniature and small metal components for automotive, medical, electronics, or other applications. Depending on tolerances and specs for a given project, you may have the choice of multiple methods that are similar but different…
The Ultimate Guide to Rapid Prototyping
By using prototyping tooling to make proof-of-concept and “functionally representative” units, CEP Technologies Corporation can shorten the time-to-market for our customers’ parts and products. Below, our team has put together a guide to rapid prototyping to help existing and potential customers understand the process, especially as it relates to metal stamping. It highlights what it…
Plating 101 (Part 2): Tips for Selecting the Right Electroplating Method for Your Parts
In this blog, we take a look at what you need to know to select the right electroplating method that’s right for you.
EV Advances: Five Developments to Watch
Automakers continue to innovate battery weight, energy density and more for electric vehicle (EV) charging speed.
Plating 101 (Part 1): What It Is and How It Works
In this blog, we look at how electroplating works with progressive stamped parts.
What Influences The Cost Of Metals For Progressive Stamping?
As with any commodity, metal prices are influenced by a number of factors: mining and production costs, supply chain factors, tariffs, and more. Here’s a quick look at what drives prices of the metals that go into stampings. Raw metals and the products made from them commonly originate as mined ores, like iron or copper,…
What does e-mobility mean for progressive die stamping? Here’s our perspective.
E-mobility and battery electric vehicles are a hot topic lately. According to a recent issue of Today’s eMobility, major automakers have announced or begun $11.6 billion in plant investments in 2020 to support electric vehicles (EVs). And then there’s GM’s recent announcement of their intention to eliminate tailpipe emissions from their new light-duty vehicles by…
What You Need to Know About Metals in Precision Stamping
Precision stampers use many types of metals, including aluminum alloys, brass alloys, copper, nickel, steel, stainless steel, silver, and bronze. How do you know which is the right material for each project?