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Customers & Products


    Desert Metal Works is at it's best when it has established a partnership with our customers. The partnership is complete when two goals are achieved. First, Desert Metal Works must get a broad knowledge of the customer, their people, product, and expectations. Everyone in our company must share in this understanding of the customer. Secondly we attempt to introduce as many of our employees as possible to the customer. This strengthens the partnership by developing numerous personal relationships. A complete friendly partnership between Desert Metal Works and a customer exists when the customer sees our employees and facility as an extension of their organization.

We  do projects directly for over 100 customers each year. IBM, Intel, Samsonite, Komatsu, Raytheon, and many other famous corporations around the world have used our parts. We have customers in every major sector of the economy. We regularly do work for manufacturing, electronics, construction, medical, aerospace and mining. We have successfully worked with a variety of quality requirements.

Our projects vary from complete enclosures and machines to small parts. We work with stainless steel, aluminum, steel, and plastics each week. We have handled projects approaching two million dollars in size.

The great customers of Desert Metal Works have helped us participate in projects all around the world. This partial compilation of the destinations and descriptions of our projects follows"


Outer Space

Desert Metal Works' reputation of high tolerance levels has allowed us to fabricate steel parts for the Hubbell Space Telescope. The quality of our work is not only superior to others, but also out of this world!


Everywhere Travelers Go On Earth

Desert Metal Works' fabricated over 900,000 luggage reinforcement bars for Samsonite luggage. As their demands for our parts increased almost overnight, Desert Metal Works responded to their requests without any late deliveries and without a single part being rejected.


Southwestern Homes Around The World

Desert Metal Works' Home Decor Department has over 12 years of experience in designing and manufacturing southwestern lighting & furniture. The demand for our Home Decor products has been so great that we included a 4,000 square foot showroom to display our products in the new facility.


Paris

We had the pleasure of fabricating brass elevator doors for the Eiffel Tower. We are very proud of the fact that we were able to beat out worldwide competition in price, service, and quality, in serving the needs of our customers                        


Euro Disney

When Euro Disney needed a show structure for their Wild Wild West theme show, they appropriately came to Tucson, Arizona, the home of Desert Metal Works. We were able to service their needs with the utmost quality and in a most timely manner.


Japan

Desert Metal Works Fabricated yokes for the Satellite Earthquake Warning System in Japan. The stability and quality of our work was essential to insure a sturdy foundation for the incredibly sensitive equipment that was affixed to it.


Hawaii & South America

Desert Metal Works was chosen over all others to fabricate the very complex bases and turntables for telescopic equipment at various observatories around the world. Among the list of observatories we have done work for is Tucson's very own Kit Peak Observatory, for whom we have fabricated several different high quality pieces.


New York

Desert Metal Works has fabricated several architectural panels in Times Square, and the railing partitions of the newly remodeled JFK International Airport.


New Jersey

Desert Metal Works earned a contract to produce Auto Emissions Checking Stations Hardware for different states throughout the nation. The quantity of pieces that this job contains is well over 200, and this job is ongoing to date. Even though these pieces have a large physical size and quantity, they are well within our shop capacity.


Washington, DC

 An "Ecosphere" in the Smithsonian Institute Of Technology is supported by a display base and turntable fabricated by us here at Desert Metal Works. We like to think that it is our base and turntable that are being displayed, and that the "Ecosphere" is a nice addition.


Cleveland Zoo

Desert Metal Works was honored to fabricate eight animal enclosures for the rain forest area in the famous Cleveland Zoo.


NASCAR  Racing

Desert Metal Works has fabricated aluminum display stand for the DuPont NASCAR Race Team. These stands were formed and laser cut with amazing precision. As with all of our jobs, quality levels are an essential part of our production line.

Disney World

For the second time, we here at Desert Metal Works, fabricated a show structure for the Walt Disney Company. Our structures that were made for the "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" show were built at a quality level Walt himself would have been impressed with.

Los Angeles

Desert Metal Works supplied and fabricated ornamental stainless steel for the Staples Arena.


Phoenix International Airport

Desert Metal Works produced many of the airport signs at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. They needed quality work done quickly, and economically, and Desert Metal Works fit those qualifications.


Biosphere II

When the Biosphere II needed stainless steel airlock doors to seal their inside environment from the outside atmosphere, they chose us. The high quality of the airlock doors was essential for the success of the experiment.


Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum

Desert Metal Works was proud to build for our neighbors, at the world famous Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, custom gift shop displays and ornamental steel.


Old Tucson Movie Studios

We had the unique job of producing jailhouse bars and doors for movie sets at the famous Old Tucson Movie Studios. We have also done work for several major movies while they were shooting on location in the Tucson area.

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