Our Company
The energy to perform well signifies an advance in the efforts embodied in the St. Louis Metallizing outlook: to be our customers’ preferred choice. That sentence is still the point. It is also the outlook of the affiliated companies that share the same stubbornness about doing the job once.
St. Louis Metallizing craftsmen have been working with a variety of industries over the past 50+ years to develop effective metal and ceramic coatings applied by thermal spray. Those coatings have become very dependable in minimizing wear and corrosion to parts and machine components. Power, chemical, petrochemical, construction, mining, and pulp and paper have seen component service life rise by 50 to 75 percent when the base metal was still worth saving. As an industry leader, the shop developed application methods with deposition rates from 3 to 60 pounds per hour so metallic and ceramic materials land as production, not as a lab trick. Customers receive higher quality, better pricing, and faster delivery when the gun, the grind, and the desk are in one building.
Achievements have to be fueled with continuous improvement. St. Louis Metallizing holds ISO 9001 certification and is an FAA certified company. Those papers are not wall jewelry. They mean travelers, gages, and shipping dates are treated as part of the work. The same consistency fuels the problem solving the shop is known for. Details of how inspection and grind documentation run sit on Quality. Process choices start at thermal spray.
The Customer Service Team, with a combination of 100+ years of service in the printing industry, interfaces between you and the production staff. Fast quotations, watched shipping dates, and calls when a job moves from strip to spray to grind keep a press from becoming a mystery. That is why printing and cylinder exchange have their own doors. Other industries use the same building without that specialized desk — see industries served.
Craftsmen have CNC grinding, CNC machining centers, dynamic balancing with documentation, a custom vision measurement system for gap radius, bore scoping of interior welds, Level II certified non-destructive inspectors, certified taper gages and instruments, plasma transferred arc welding, and a temperature-controlled building for close tolerances. Jobs open when those bays need people. News records when a cell changes. The map of the site is the home page. Contact if the part is already on a truck toward 4123 Sarpy Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110.