PM Tooling

In powder metal compaction, quality tooling is essential to the efficient manufacture of quality powder metal parts delivered on time at the most reasonable prices.

Sterling Sintered designs 100% of all new tools in house.  Our ISO 9001:2008 Tool Room has Class A Journeyman Toolmakers with a combined experience of over 100 years.

With compaction happening at anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 psi, and repeating upwards of 2,000 times an hour, our level of skill and experience is what it takes to get it done right.

Doing it right starts with proper tool configuration and material selection for the many functions that the tooling performs. We’ve been designing tools for compaction and compacting parts since 1955, and that experience has taught us what works well. Count on Sterling for tool durability.

Of equal importance is the ability to achieve the fit-up and finishes required to handle the pressures and frictional forces involved. The near-zero clearances, and extremely fine micro-finishes, that we achieve routinely are what are required to maximize production quality and efficiency.

We are fully equipped with multiple CNC wire and electrode EDM, mills, lathes, jig borers, surface and ID/OD grinders. The toolsets we produce are used to manufacture everything from simple tiny parts to larger, complex, multi-cavity shapes.

Maintenance and Repair

Sterling Sintered is fully capable of maintaining and repairing all the tooling we utilize. A documented history is maintained for each tool, which insures timely maintenance and allows us to keep spare components on hand to prevent production interruptions.

Transfer of Tooling

SST accepts tools provided by our customers and can quickly adapt them to our equipment so that there is no disruption to our customers’ production requirements.

Call our office directly at (860) 379-2753 to find out more about order scheduling and custom capabilities.