services

DIX Metals offers a complete spectrum of material solutions and specialized processes designed to improve your bottom line. These cost-effective pre-machining services prepare materials for final machining, saving you time, helping control production costs, and enabling you to live up to delivery promises.

DIX Metals’ services include precision material removal processes such as Blanchard grinding, double-disc grinding, duplex milling, and others—all dedicated to the preparation of precision, made-to-order metal blanks.

Customers across the country partner with DIX Metals because the full-service relationship provides a competitive edge in material solutions for cost-effective results. Time and money are crucial in today’s marketplace.

DIX Metals has made substantial investments in process-specific equipment to achieve flat, square, parallel surfaces to .001 tolerances of virtually any material in any size. Machine shops (OEM and job shops) no longer have to resort to in-house flycutting or face-milling of raw stock prior to final machining.

Our services include:

• Blanchard grinding
• Double-disc grinding
• Duplex milling
• Bridge-mill operations
• Precision sawing
• Flattening and surface improvement
• Waterjet cutting

Another of DIX Metals’ precision services is precise water jet cutting with a dynamic waterjet machine that features active tolerance control and can:

• cut parts up to 400% faster than conventional flat stock waterjet cutting machines
• improve cut part tolerances and geometry
• accommodate a variety of materials, including metal, stone, glass and composites

Beyond the precise cutting provided by DIX Metals’ water jet cutting, our customers benefit from its’ sophisticated technology through reduced part costs through true part stacking ability and the time savings born of the machine’s easy programmability.  

DIX Metals is a full-service stainless steel distributor and services provider. In addition to offering 6061 aluminum plate and other materials, our services include precision material removal processes and cutting such as Blanchard grinding, double-disc grinding, duplex milling, waterjet cutting and others — all dedicated to the preparation of precision, made-to-order metal blanks.