We're building our verified tool & die network in Windsor. Tell us what you need and our team will source and match capable Canadian shops, usually within two business days. It's free for buyers, with no account required.
Request a quote →Windsor is the tool-and-die capital of Canada, built on the automotive industry across the river in Detroit. If you need an injection mould or a stamping die, this is the deepest talent pool in the country, with cross-border shipping into US plants under CUSMA as routine.
Tool and die makers build the moulds, dies, jigs and fixtures that produce other parts. Sourcing tool & die in Windsor? Made to Spec matches your job to vetted Canadian shops. Describe your part once, process, material, tolerance, quantity and any required certifications, and our team routes your RFQ to shops that can actually make it, then comes back with 3 to 5 quotes. It is free for buyers, with no account needed, and your drawing stays in Canada.
The attributes that decide a good match are the specific process, the materials a shop is tooled and experienced for, the tolerance class they can hold, and, for regulated work, their certifications. An AS9100 shop is effectively mandatory for aerospace parts, ISO 13485 for medical devices, and IATF 16949 for automotive production. We confirm those before we route your job.
Deep capability and a real backlog tied to the automotive model-year cycle. Windsor shops build production moulds and dies to tight tolerance and ship them south without blinking, but lead times move with the auto calendar. Start early and confirm the schedule before you commit steel.
Tooling is engineered work priced by complexity, cavity count, tolerance and steel selection. A simple single-cavity mould is far cheaper than a hardened multi-cavity production tool. It is a capital cost that lowers your per-part price downstream, so quote the tool and the part program together.
One RFQ instead of cold-calling ten shops. We only route to Canadian shops we have vetted for the specific capability and certifications your job needs, so the quotes you get back are from shops that can genuinely fulfill the work.
AS9100 is the aerospace quality standard and is effectively mandatory for flight and defence parts. It builds on ISO 9001 with added requirements for traceability, risk and configuration management. Tell us if your part needs it and we only route to certified shops.
Prototype and short-run work often turns in 1 to 2 weeks; production runs typically run 2 to 4 weeks depending on material availability, finishing and shop capacity. Share your timeline in the RFQ and we prioritise shops that can hit it.
Yes. Under CUSMA, qualifying parts move tariff-free across the border. Ask for cross-border-ready shops and we route to ones that already handle the customs documentation and freight.
The Controlled Goods Program (CGP) is Canada's domestic industrial security program under the Defence Production Act. A shop that examines, possesses or transfers controlled goods or controlled technical data in Canada must be CGP-registered. If your part or its drawings are controlled goods, common in defence and some aerospace work, we route only to registered shops.