The dies are built here. That changes everything.
Evans began as a tool and die shop in 1948, and three generations later the craft still lives in-house: 15 master tool makers with over 400 years of combined experience, designing, building, and maintaining the tooling behind every part we make.
A Small Business Rock Star.
Tool and die is the origin of Evans and the reason buyers trust us with production. Very few stampers still cut their own dies. Most outsource the tooling and inherit the delays, hand-offs, and variable quality that come with it. Keeping it in-house is our oldest advantage and our customers' quietest insurance policy.
Design, build, tryout, maintain, in one building
We design, build, and maintain every stamping die internally. Your program avoids the delays, hand-offs, potential miscommunication, and variable quality that appear the moment a stamping vendor sends tooling out of house.
Keeping tool and die work in-house means shorter turnarounds and higher volumes, because the tooling never leaves our control. Dies are built and ready sooner, adjusted quickly when needed, and repaired and back in the press faster.
- Die design & DFM support
- In-house build & tryout
- Progressive & transfer tooling
- Ongoing repair, maintenance & storage
A craft passed down, not outsourced
Evans employs 15 master tool makers whose combined experience exceeds 400 years. They produce molds, dies, cutting tools, and the machine tools that manufacturing depends on, and they mentor the next generation through a modern apprenticeship program.
That depth is why a stamping buyer can trust Evans over a broker. The people who build your tool are the people who run it, and they're here for the life of the program.
A full die-making department: EDM, CNC machining, grinding, and precision measurement.
| Master tool makers | 15 |
|---|---|
| Combined experience | 400+ years |
| Tooling | Progressive, transfer & single-hit dies |
| Services | Design · build · tryout · repair · storage |
| Established | 1948 · third generation |
On the floor
- Wire & sinker EDM
- CNC mills & lathes
- Surface & jig grinding
- CMM & precision measurement
- Die spotting presses
- Heat-treat coordination
Your tooling stays yours: built, maintained, and stored here, ready for your next release.
What our tool room delivers
We approach every stamping project individually, assessing part features, tolerances, and material before we cut a die.
Dies we design & build
- Progressive tooling
- Transfer dies
- Single-hit dies
- Secondary dies
Maintenance & repair
- Preventive maintenance
- Emergency repairs
- Die modifications
- Performance optimization
We engineer for
- Stamping material characteristics
- Tooling material
- Tonnage
- Precision manufacturing techniques
- Production speed & volume
- Tolerances
- Validation & future scalability
What you get when the die maker and the stamper are the same company.
Shorter turnarounds
Tooling never leaves the building, so builds and adjustments happen on our schedule, not a subcontractor's.
Continuity of quality
One team owns the tool from design through every production run. No hand-offs, no finger-pointing.
You own the tooling
The die is yours. We build it, maintain it, and store it, ready for the next release.
Faster repairs
When a tool needs attention between runs, it moves across the floor, not across the country.
DFM from day one
Our tool makers and engineers refine the part for manufacturability before a chip is cut.
Built to last
Dies engineered and maintained for the long haul, so your program stays reliable for years.
The reason the other two work.
Laser cutting gives you speed. Stamping gives you scale. Tool & die is what makes both of them dependable, the in-house capability that lets Evans carry a part from first prototype to a production program without ever handing your tooling to a stranger.
It's a softer sell than a laser quote, and that's the point. This is the part of Evans you lean on for years, not the part you buy once.
Frequently asked
Yes. Evans designs, builds, and maintains every stamping die in-house with 15 master tool makers. It's how the company started in 1948 and it's still core to how we work.
You do. We build and maintain the die, store it here, and keep it ready for your next production release. There's no offshore lock-in.
Yes, we repair, maintain, and refurbish tooling, including tools built elsewhere. Bring us the die and the part it makes and we'll assess it.
Because the tool never leaves the building, we build faster, adjust faster, and repair faster. There's no shipping tooling out and waiting for it to come back.
Absolutely. Our tool makers and engineers provide design-for-manufacturability support to optimize your part for tooling, material, and tolerance before the build begins.
Single-hit, transfer, and complex progressive dies, matched to your part geometry, volume, and material.
Let's talk tooling.
Whether you're starting a new program or need an existing die maintained, our engineers are glad to talk it through.