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For the fourth year running, Apple Die has been named one of the largest Wisconsin-based women-owned businesses of the last fiscal year by the Milwaukee Business Journal. Based on revenue, Apple has been ranked #31 out of #66, up from #35 last year.

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Q: Why gasket dies from Apple?

A: Apple is the largest manufacturer of gasket dies in North America, as such, we have decades of experience in crafting gasket dies. We utilize a vast database of materials to ensure that our dies are made to maximize both your output and to live up to the highest quality standard.

There is no need for you to labor over specifications. Let our 35 years of experience be your guide. Just a few of the added features we provide:

• We can produce gasket dies with welded and/or brazed joints.
• Rule heights from .937 to 4” with a wide variety of die bases.
• When steel rule dies will not or cannot achieve your needs, we manufacture machined dies.
• We have a state of the art inspection process to ensure that all dies meet or exceed our highest standards.
• With almost all of our dies shipping the same day or next day, you will receive your dies on time, every time.

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This is a difficult time for all of us as our world has changed, what seems like overnight.

We want to remind you Apple Die is here if you need us.

Apple is considered an essential business because we are making dies used to cut everything from masks and shields to hospital gowns and respirators, in addition to our normal business operations.

We want to take this time to give our first responders, nurses and doctors on the front line our deepest and sincerest gratitude. They are the real heroes.

Apple takes the health and safety of not only our team members but also our customers extremely seriously. We have increased cleaning and sanitation, and have implemented social distancing in the shop.

Contact us for any new project you have. We are still running full staff and 98.7% of all orders ship the same day or next.

We’ll get through this together!

July 2020 marks our 35th year in business and we want to thank YOU, our loyal customers, many of whom have turned into friends. We would not be where we are today without you.

Jim Ippolite, current COO, started Apple Die 35 years ago with a jigsaw and a hand bender. Since then, Jim has grown the company from a startup to one of the largest specialty steel rule die manufacturers in the U.S., with multiple locations and the industry’s most diversified steel rule dies (12 mm up to 6 pt high rule dies). In 2013, Barb Wambold, who started as an office clerk in 2001 and worked her way up, bought Apple Die and expanded the company even further. She opened a new location in South Africa, bought three different companies merging them into Apple Central, and added flex dies, rotary dies, magnetic cylinders and more to the company’s ever-growing product line-up. Under Barb, Apple Die has also been named a top 50 largest woman-owned business based on revenue in WI by the Milwaukee Business Journal for the last three consecutive years.

Today, Apple Die maintains one of the fastest turnaround of any die company in the U.S. with 98.7% of orders shipped the same day or next and holds some of the most competitive pricing in the industry. With more than two centuries of combined craftsman experience in the manufacturing of close tolerance dies, Apple excels at medical dies, flexible circuits, displays, folders, gaskets, heat sealing, labels, decals, nameplates, overlays, membrane switches, packaging, vacuum forming and more. Cheers to another 35 years!