Metal Stamping Equipment — What We Run, Why It Matters, and What It Can Do for Your Parts

Most equipment pages are lists. This one starts with a list too — but we want you to understand what that equipment actually means for your parts. Because the right press, matched to the right die, running the right material at the right speed, is the difference between a good stamping program and a great one. Here’s what we run, why we have it, and what it makes possible.

Heavy Tonnage — When Your Part Needs Serious Force or Serious Bed Space

Our flagship presses are a pair of E2-600 Hevi Stampers — 600-ton straight-side presses that represent the top of our tonnage range. These machines handle parts and dies that simply won’t fit anywhere else. One has a bed of 48″ front-to-back by 132″ left-to-right. The other runs a 34″ x 120″ bed. To put that in perspective: 132 inches is eleven feet. You could park a full-size pickup truck in that press bed with room left over for a toolbox.

Why does bed size matter? Because some parts — large brackets, long channels, complex multi-cavity dies — can’t physically fit into a standard press. And some dies, because of their complexity or the number of stations they require, need to be built in two pieces and run as a split die. We have video of exactly that — a two-part die that fills the entire bed of our 500-ton press, run as a time-lapse. That’s not unusual for us. That’s Tuesday.

Then there is the massive 168” bed on our 500 ton!

Our 400-ton Niagara straight-side presses (two of them, with 54″ x 108″ beds) and our 400-ton Chicago (with a 54″ x 168″ bed — nearly 14 feet wide) round out the heavy end of the fleet. These presses handle high-tonnage work across a range of part sizes, and their straight-side construction provides the rigidity and precision that complex progressive dies demand.

Material Handling — Getting Heavy Coil Stock from Dock to Press, Fast

Our production floor overhead crane system handles heavy coil stock safely and precisely — coils up to 40,000 lbs. — moving material from storage to the dereeler to the press. Combined with our coil handling equipment, material gets from the dock to a running press fast, controlled, and ready to produce.

• Production overhead cranes handle coils up to 40,000 lbs.
• Coil capacity up to 40,000 lbs. across multiple dereeler units
• Cone bridge cranes for coil positioning at presses
• Optimized material flow from receiving through press setup

Mid-Range Presses — The Workhorses Running Day and Night

The heart of our press fleet is the mid-range — 75 to 200 tons, running a mix of Minster, Niagara, Danly, and other proven press platforms. These are the machines that run hundreds of millions of parts per year for our customers. High-speed, reliable, and matched with our in-house progressive dies and coil handling systems, they represent the core of what Talan does every day.

Particularly notable in this range are our Minster straight-side presses — multiple units running at up to 300 strokes per minute on parts that demand both speed and dimensional consistency. The Minster name is recognized throughout the stamping industry as a benchmark for high-speed precision. Our fleet includes several Minster presses across multiple bed sizes, giving us flexibility to match the right press to your part’s geometry and volume requirements.

High-Speed and Precision Presses — Tight Tolerances, Fast Cycle Times

At the precision end of our fleet is the Bruderer BSTA 40 — a Swiss-made high-precision stamping press that engineers who know the industry will recognize immediately. The Bruderer is not a general-purpose press. It’s a specialized machine built for parts that demand exceptional dimensional consistency, fine features, and repeatable high-speed performance. When a part has tight tolerances and needs to run fast and flawlessly, this is the press we reach for.

Our Bliss straight-side press runs at 300 SPM — among the highest speeds in our fleet — for smaller parts where throughput is paramount. The Federal Variable Speed and Henry & Wright Variable Speed presses give us flexibility for parts that need stroke speed tuned to the material and forming requirements.

Coil Handling — Because a Press Is Only as Good as What Feeds It

A stamping press produces perfect parts only if the material feeding into it is perfectly controlled — straight, tensioned correctly, advancing at exactly the right increment with every stroke. Our coil handling system is designed end-to-end for precision and efficiency, handling material from 0.010″ to 0.500″ thick and strip widths up to 36″ wide

• Dereelers from 3,000 to 40,000 lb. capacity — multiple units across the press floor
• Powered pallet dereelers (60″ dia.) for large coils — 4 units
• Levelers from 10″ to 20″ width — Rowe, Durant, Woehr, Littell
• Servo roll feeds — 15,000 lb. Coe feed line, 24″ x 200″, servo feed, leveler, dereeler
• Electronic servo roll feeds — up to 0.500″ thick x 36″ wide — 13 units
• Air feeds up to 12″ x .125″
• Cone bridge cranes for coil positioning

This is not a bolted-together assortment of mismatched equipment. It’s a designed system where coil handling, feeding, and press operation work together. Combined with our new 20 ton KoneCrane overhead system, material moves from dock to running press with the speed and precision your program deserves.

Uptime — Redundant Capability and a Robust PM Program

Our preventive maintenance program covers every press on the floor — scheduled inspections, lubrication, tooling clearance checks, and press calibration on a defined cycle. Press maintenance records are documented in our Visual Manufacturing ERP system with Shop Floor Mobile giving our team real-time access to maintenance history and upcoming PM schedules from anywhere on the floor.

• Scheduled PM program on all active presses
• Documented maintenance history in Visual Manufacturing ERP
• Shop Floor Mobile for real-time floor-level PM tracking
• Redundant press capability across tonnage ranges — multiple presses can run the same class of work
• In-house tool room for rapid die repair and adjustment — no waiting on outside shops
• KoneCrane tool room crane enables faster die flipping and maintenance — less downtime between runs

The Tool Room — Where Your Die Is Built, Maintained, and Protected

Every progressive die at Talan is designed in SolidWorks, built in our in-house tool room, and maintained for the life of your program. We don’t outsource die maintenance. We don’t send your tooling to a shop across town and wait a week. Our die makers are on-site, equipped, and incentivized to keep your dies running perfectly.

Progressive dies are heavy. A large multi-station die can weigh as much as a small car — think Fiat, maybe a Mazda. Handling that kind of weight safely and efficiently inside a tool room requires the right equipment. Our KoneCrane dual-hoist system — installed specifically for the tool room — allows die makers to flip dies completely, rotating heavy tooling to access both faces for inspection, grinding, stone work, and repair. What previously required time-consuming manual blocking and repositioning can now be done by one or two people in a fraction of the time. The result: faster die turnaround, more thorough maintenance, and die makers who spend their time on the craft instead of the logistics of moving heavy steel.

Tool room equipment includes:

• 2-ton crane and 5-ton monorail crane
• 7 Bridgeport-type j-head mills
• PMC 4″ x 13″ radial drill
• Surface grinders — Harig 6″ x 12″, Sharp 6″ x 12″, Brown & Sharpe 6″ x 12″
• AMW 12″ x 24″ wet grinder
• Superior hone
• Monarch lathe 16″ x 56″
• South Bend lathe/polisher
• Leland Gifford drill press
• Grob vertical band saw
• Roll-in band saw (x2)
• A-B abrasive cut-off saw

Metrology & Inspection — We Verify In-House, Every Run

Dimensional verification at Talan is done in-house — no outside lab, no added lead time, no guessing. Our Zeiss Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) with a 24″ x 38″ x 14″ measurement envelope handles complex 3D geometries and tight-tolerance verification with the accuracy and repeatability that ISO 9001:2015 demands. Our Keyence visual inspection system adds high-speed optical measurement and feature verification for parts where speed and throughput in inspection matters as much as precision.

• Zeiss CMM — 24″ x 38″ x 14″ measurement envelope, in-house dimensional verification
• Keyence visual inspection system — optical measurement and feature verification
• In-process inspection at defined intervals on all production runs
• Full documentation and traceability on every job
• ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system

In-House Welding — Assemblies Completed Without Leaving Our Floor

We weld. In-house, by our people, with our equipment. For customers whose stamped parts need to be joined into assemblies or sub-assemblies, keeping welding in-house means faster turnaround, one throat to choke for quality, and no logistics cost between processes.

• American Industrial Spot Welder — 250 Amp
• Airco TIG Welder
• Lincoln Arc Welder
• American Industrial Butt Welder — 250 Amp
• Robotic welding cells for spot welding, MIG welding, and stud welding — see our Value-Added Services page

Have a Part That Needs a Specific Press Capability?

If you’ve got a part that’s been turned down elsewhere because it’s too big, too heavy, too fast, or too precise — talk to us. We’ve been solving those problems since 1986 with equipment that most stamping shops don’t have and expertise that comes from decades of running it.

Send us your drawing and tell us what you need. We’ll tell you exactly which press it goes on, what die it needs, and what it will cost to run it — honestly and without obligation.

Call toll-free: 877.419.2805

Or use the ‘Let’s Discuss Your Project’ form — include your drawing, volumes, and any specific press or capability requirements.

Talan Products Inc. | 18800 Cochran Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44110 | talanproducts.com