Our Mission & Values
Our investments have paid off. Our employee tenure is one of the best in the industry, ensuring the retention of institutional knowledge to the benefit of our customers. We safeguard our customers’ long-term interests by maintaining both die design and tooling build capabilities in house. We take a hands-on approach with our suppliers, ensuring their quality meets our customer’s high standards as well as our own.
Years of developing long term relationships with our business partners has allowed us to build a resilient supply chain that underwrites our on-time delivery expectations. Through recessions, pandemics, and shifts in the market, we seek to build a robust organization that will meet customers needs in challenging conditions.
Family Business
Engineering Expertise
Relationship Focused
Can-do Attitude
Full Service
Reliable and Resilient
Our History
In 1954, our founder Robert G. Woods opened Variety Tool & Die on 3115 Broad Street near downtown Dexter, Michigan, where for the next decade the business specialized in injection mold tools for the automotive industry. Then, in the late 1960s, the company acquired their first 35-ton press and began to run progressive stampings.
To reflect this strategic change in direction, the organization was renamed to Variety Die & Stamping Co. The shift proved to be a forward-thinking investment, allowing the thriving company to acquire additional floor space over the next few years to accommodate the flourishing progressive stamping industry.
In 1990, the original location could no longer serve the increasing size and scope of Variety’s stamping operation. The company moved to our current location and continued to grow throughout the 1990s, bringing the facility to 44,248 square feet. With subsequent additions in 2015, 2017, 2021, and 2022, the facility expanded to encompass 96,311 square feet.
Today, Variety Die & Stamping comprises over 70 employees and specializes in progressive dies and production stampings and assemblies. With a strong domestic and international presence in the automotive and lawn and garden industries, Variety Die & Stamping has become a shining example of American ingenuity and innovation in manufacturing.
Our People
Commitment to longevity is part of the culture at Variety. The average tenure of our team translates to deep levels of experience leadership all the way to our factory floor. From machine operators to management, we have dedicated team members who have been with the company for decades and ready to contribute their experience to your next project.
This level of dedication offers an advantage our competitors can’t match in terms of translating our combined experience into superior results for our customers.
Our Shop
At our company, we believe that a well-maintained work environment directly contributes to quality and productivity. Our commitment to organization ensures that our team remains focused, efficient, and dedicated to excellence.
We invite prospective customers to visit our facility, walk the factory floor, and engage with our skilled operators. See firsthand how our precision-driven processes—from stamping and assembly to rigorous quality control—set us apart. We’re confident you’ll be impressed by our standards and craftsmanship.
Once customers start working with us, they don’t look elsewhere.
Some of our customers have been with us for decades—for one simple reason: they recognize the value a high-quality partnership brings to their bottom line.
Intelligent automation: robotics, quality control, and supply chain visibility.
We invest in new technologies where they matter: to boost manufacturing output, enhance inspection systems, and streamline shipping and scheduling. Our efficiency is your efficiency.
Elite engineering support, from our team to yours.
It takes one set of skills to envision a design, and another to manufacture it. Our collaborative engineering approach allows us to ask the right questions and offer the high-level feedback you need to create essential parts.
We haven’t met a standard higher than our own.
From our due diligence during PPAP through our 8D problem solving approach, we follow the industry’s best quality control practices. We’ve even worked with our suppliers to help them bring their quality control up to our standards.