Metal Forming Services

Forming metal by bending and trimming it to various sizes Norstan, Inc. specializes in meeting customers' critical tolerances from micro sizes to large stampings. Our in house expert die makers allow us to be both competitive and maintain high quality tooling for our customer's needs. We provide improved quality control utilizing electric detectors in-die and quality inspectors checking dimensions and tolerances with computer aided photo measuring devices and equipment.

Tooling is built to combine several operations thereby saving money and providing manufacturing processes with greater quality control. Norstan forms the stampings and also can in-die stake, weld and even in-die tap and perform other operations as required to meet our customers' needs.

Staking is a process to secure the contacts and rivets to another part by mechanically squeezing the protruding end of its shank in a die controlling form and dimension, therefore allowing it to clinch the back of the assembly.

Brazed composite heading marries two metals together by bonding them under controlled conditions in a furnace. The bonding material is called a brazing metal alloy, which is a low melting point metalalloy used to attach and metallurgically fuse two metals together after elevating the temperature beyond its melting point.