Customer Solutions Gallery
For Your Inspiration
When you couple the variety of customers we serve with the fabrication experience of our Applications Specialists and Custom Engineers, Mate has developed numerous creative solutions to help our customers solve their fabrication challenges. Whether it’s simplifying a process, eliminating a downstream operation or just getting more efficiency from the punch press, we can help you. For your inspiration, we provide you with ideas and thought starters on a variety of topics in the following folios in a slideshow format. We hope these ideas inspire you to greater success in your fabricating operation.
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Assembly Solutions
Minimize secondary jobs and lower costs by using your punch press more effectively.
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Bending Solutions
Not all bending operations require a press brake.
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Blanking Tools
Learn how to use a blanking tool to fabricate high precision parts with complex contour parts.
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Cluster Applications
You can gain more efficiency from your punch press using cluster tools to produce repeat holes or patterns.
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Contour Slitting + Micro Joints
Having difficulty removing parts, or dealing with sharp edges? See how Mate tooling can help.
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Emboss Tools
See the unique shapes and patterns our customers have created with Mate tools.
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Knockouts
While knockouts are common in sheet metal fabrication, Mate makes creating them easy.
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Logos and Numbering
Whether embossed or stamped, Mate has the tools to permanently affix logos, instructions, location markers and more.
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Louvers
See the variety of shapes and styles of louvers it’s possible to create using Mate tooling.
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Punching & Forming
Solve problems and expand the utility of your punch press by combining punching and forming operations.
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Rib and Offset Tools
Learn how Mate’s Rollerball™ tool and beaded emboss tools can add strengthening ribs to your parts.
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Special Forming Applications
Learn how Mate can help you do more with common lance and form tools.
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Special Shapes
Mate has more than 40 standard and special shapes, but as you’ll see in our gallery, we also make custom shapes for our customers.
