Engraving Tips

Custom Marking Dies for UN Certified Steel Drum and Pail Production A steel drum carries

A casting number stamped into an engine block or transmission housing has to outlast the process that made the part and every process that comes after it. Machining removes stock from the surface, paint and coatings cover it, and the finished component spends years under heat cycling and vibration…

Custom Bunters and Headstamp Tooling for Cartridge Case Production A headstamp bunter is one of

A remanufactured starter, alternator, or transmission housing carries two identities at once. It still needs to show its original casting or part number for core tracking and warranty crossover, and it needs a new mark proving it went through a rebuild process…

Steel Die Engraving for Custom Marking, Embossing, and Roll Dies Steel die engraving is the

Steel Stamps Built for Defense Part Identification and CAGE Code Marking A defense subcontractor delivering

A heavy truck or trailer stays in service for a decade or more, and the axle and frame identification applied at the factory has to remain readable through every mile of that service life. Road salt, vibration, and repeated loading all work against a mark that was specified without those conditions in mind…

Die Duplication From a Print, CAD File, or Part A die gets duplicated when a

Engraved Date Code Inserts & ID Plates for Tire Mold Tooling A tire mold carries

An aerosol can or small pressurized cylinder is a thin-wall container designed to hold internal pressure safely for its entire service life, and every mark stamped into that wall is a variable in the container’s structural performance, not just an identification detail…

Custom Branding Tools for Treated Wood Packaging Identification Wood packaging that crosses a border carries

Metal crown caps and twist-off closures move through capping lines at speeds that leave no room for a marking die to slow the process down, and every mark applied to a closure sits close to a sealing surface that has to maintain compression against the container it closes…

Cold Heading Marking Dies for Bolt Grade & Manufacturer IDs The marks on a bolt

Fabricated structural steel moves through blasting, priming, sometimes hot-dip galvanizing, and finally field erection before it ever carries a design load, and the heat number and piece mark applied in the fab shop has to survive every one of those steps…

Steel Stamps for Rated Lifting Hardware Without Weakening It Rigging hardware carries its rating on

Hand tools and small equipment move between trucks, trailers, and job sites constantly, and any identification method that can be scraped off, painted over, or simply worn away in normal use stops doing its job within a season…

Custom Roll Dies for Grade Marking on Bar & Reinforcing Steel Rebar and merchant bar

Cheese wheels, chocolate bars, and specialty baked goods sometimes carry a maker’s mark or logo stamped directly into the product itself, and that is a fundamentally different marking application than stamping a can, a piece of equipment, or a package…

Marking Dies Built for Pipe, Tube, and Fitting Identification A length of pipe leaves the

A forge shop running multiple presses and cavity inserts needs to track the tooling itself as carefully as it tracks the parts that tooling produces, and that identification problem gets almost no attention in general forging marking content…

Engraved Identification Tooling for Foundry Patterns and Casting Molds A casting carries identification that was