Large Progressive Die Stamping

Dowding Industries can accommodate your stamping needs and have presses ranging from 105 tons up to 1000 tons with bed sizes up to 72” X 108.” We can also coil feed up to 1” thick mild steel.

Short/Medium Run Stamping

Dowding Industries possesses the capability to produce prototype, short run, and medium run stampings through a variety of processes including progressive die stamping and laser cutting technologies.

Lasers

Dowding Industries utilizes 8, 3-Axis, Laser cutting centers. Our lasers have bed sizes up to 72” X 144” and cutting speeds up to 70 inches per minute. Dowding Industries can cut up to 1” thick cold rolled steel and ½” aluminum plate. 

Dowding Industries can meet your needs from one off custom parts, one time runs, and service parts production. We can use your material or can include it in our quote.

Our customers find this service to be a cost-effective way to run service orders mitigating the need for large coil orders and costly tooling investments.

Machining

Dowding Industries has a stable of 18 vertical machining centers. These work centers accommodate bed sizes up to 65” X 35.” We utilize state of the art Fadal and Johnford machining centers.

Assembly

Dowding Industries can also support your value-added needs with spot, robotic and manual weld centers. We can also insert fasteners and provide complete assembly. We can manage the build and inventory for you or use customer supplied components.

Robotic welding

Dowding Industries also boasts several robotic weld cells providing added value to our customers.  
We utilize state of the art Lincoln robotic weld cells and have the capability set up parts on our
Motoman weld center with positioning table.

Metal Fabrications and Welded Assemblies

Dowding Industries can accommodate all of your fabrication needs. We can press brake parts up to 143 tons with 10’ beds. We also offer laser cutting, welding, double disk grinding and roll forming.

In our laser department we have 8 state of the art machines and can cut up to 1” mild steel at 22” per minute with bed sizes up 72” X 144.”

Dowding Industries also has the capability to extend the value chain for its customer base with mig, robotic, and spot welding capabilities.

Dowding Industries utilizes a 914.4mm (36.00") grinding wheel and grinds components that are 1219.2mm (48.00") long. The technical solution that Dowding Industries provided this off highway truck manufacturer solved numerous quality problems for this tightly toleranced engine application. We also offer roll forming on our Imcar 8” wide roll former.