P & A Industries is one of the forerunners in the use of progressive tooling to produce a wide range of parts and components. It is a metal stamping operation in which several procedures are performed in a progressive press. The process involves multiple stages in a fixed order to transform a metal strip into desired metal parts. The material is automatically fed from a spool into the press and continues from one stamping position to the next with each press stroke. Each station along the path carries out a certain operation simultaneously as the die descends until the part is complete. Different steps are integrated within a single die, which allows for multiple tooling solutions in a quick, efficient and cost-effective manner.