Industries Served
  Production
  Patterns & Tooling
  Quality Assurance
  Services Offered
  Carbon Steels
  Stainless Steels
  Low Alloy Steels
  Heat Resistant Alloys
  Nickel & Nickel Alloys
  Copper & Copper Alloys
  Aluminum Alloy Castings

MARKETS AND CAPABILITIES

  Dickson Investment Hardware’s expertise is not limited to any specific industry. We’ve served virtually every market that requires cast metal parts. Our customers range from small job shops to Fortune 500 companies. Order quantities range from a few pieces to ten of thousands, in raw castings to completely machined parts.
 

INDUSTRIES SERVED

 
Architectural Hardware
The Arts
Boiler Repair
Compressors
Conveyor Systems
Cranes
Door Hardware and Hinges
Electro Mechanical
Flow Meters

Food Processing
Hand Tools
Hardware
Hoists and Chain Lifts
Industrial Clamps
Marine Hardware
Material Handling
Medical
Military
Mining

Packaging
Pneumatic Tools
Pneumatic Couplers
Pulper
Pumps & Impellers
Steam Traps
Super Heaters
Trucking
Valves
Waste Reduction

 
PRODUCTION
  Dickson is proud of its modern production operation. Production and quality are enhanced by the use of modern, automated equipment used throughout our investment and sand casting operations. Automatic wax injection, dipping, grinding, all monitored by our quality department featuring a state-of-the-art spectrograph.
   
Investment Casting
Casting Design & Engineering
Wax Injection
Shell Building
Foundry Operations
Finishing
Heat Treating
Machining
Testing
Sand Casting
Casting Design & Engineering
Molding
Core Making
Foundry Operations
Finishing
Heat Treating
Machining
Testing
 
PATTERNS & TOOLING
 
Casting Design and Engineering – Tooling

Dickson can create new tooling based on your requirements or employ customer supplied tooling. In many cases we can adapt existing tooling to run on our machines with little or no cost to you, the customer. Prototypes of your casting design can be made if required. Prototypes can be created by epoxy and rubber tooling, machined wax pattern or stereolithography.

Casting Design and Engineering-Patterns

Dickson can create new patterns based on your requirements or employ your supplied pattern. In many cases we can adapt existing patterns to run on our machines with little or no cost to you, the customer.

 
QUALITY ASSURANCE
 

At Dickson, we cast quality into every part we produce. Quality is at the core of each area of production. We continuously upgrade our systems to meet the ever-increasing demands for quality and consistency. We cast in accordance with ASTM, AMS, AISI, SAE, CDA, ICI and MIL specifications. Our modern analytical laboratory includes a wide range of testing equipment featuring our state-of-the-art spectrograph that uses NBS traceable standards. Alloy composition is tested and verified for each heat poured.

All Dickson vendors have been certified as quality suppliers. Material certifications are required on all incoming materials. Statistical process control techniques are used, starting with incoming raw materials and running through final product shipment.

Other testing services include hardness testing, magnetic particle, and liquid penetrant inspections, Charpy impact, physical properties (tensile, yield strength, area reduction, % elongation), and pressure testing

 
SERVICES OFFERED
  Patterns and Tooling - Our in house departments produce wood, plastic, metal or rubber types of equipment needed to meet your casting requirements.

Heat Treatment - We provide secondary operations such as annealing, hardening, carburizing.

Machining - We quote complete machined parts at competitive prices.

Finishing - Vibratory, painting, passivation and plating – we offer these value-added services at competitive prices.

Testing - We test your sample pieces to verify material type. Non-destructive testing, chemical analysis, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant. Destructive testing: charpy, impact, tensile & yield.

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