Metals

Our CNC machining capabilities enhance efficiency and precision through automated machine operations that minimize waste, improve accuracy, and accelerate production. Jabil operates more than 21,000 CNC machines across our global operations for milling, turning, and grinding a diverse array of raw metal materials, including stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, CRES, steel alloys, and bronze.

From automotive to aerospace components, intricate electrical parts to surgical instruments, Jabil’s stamping processes enable precision, efficiency, and cost-effective manufacturing. Jabil’s custom-designed tooling, dies, and fixtures enable precision metals processing techniques such as punching, bending, embossing, coining, and flanging for even the most complex customer projects.

Thixomolding, also known as magnesium injection molding, is a highly valued manufacturing process within industries that demand high-performance materials with superior strength-to-weight ratios, such as automotive, defense and aerospace, consumer electronics, and medical devices. Thixomolding uses less energy than die-casting and produces no harmful gases. The magnesium used is then recycled, improving the sustainability of the product lifecycle.

Jabil’s thixomolding capabilities leverage the advantages of magnesium alloys (75% lighter than steel and 33% lighter than aluminum) to deliver excellent corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity, and ultimately, higher performance at a lower cost.

Jabil uses a variety of surface engineering techniques to enhance the performance, durability, and aesthetics of metal parts prior to final assembly. Our offerings include:

• Passivation

• Electropolishing (EC)

• Anodizing

• Mechanical polishing

• Laser processes, including drilling, engraving, and plating

• Physical vapor deposition (PVD)

• Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and etching

Jabil’s assembly and finishing services provide the final touches necessary to deliver the highest quality metal products. Advanced techniques, like ultrasonic welding, and cutting-edge automation ensure superior finishes that meet industry standards while achieving the desired aesthetic and functional outcomes for your products. In addition to an extensive range of coatings, bonding, joining, and welding techniques, and secondary operations like deburring, polishing, and cleaning, our services include:

• Anodizing

• Electro-deposition

• Clean room integration

• Soft touch painting

• Ano-like painting

• Metal surface texturing

Jabil offers a complete range of quality control steps like automated X-ray inspection (AXI) in tandem with automated optical inspection (AOI) to reveal defects that are not visible to the human eye or with optical cameras. These high-performance, cost-competitive test solutions ensure metals manufacturing defects are captured proactively, saving you time, money, and ultimately, ensuring success for your products.

Jabil metals testing solutions also include:

• Optical measuring machines (OMM) 

• Coordinate measuring machines (CMM)

• 2D X-ray/3D X-ray testing

• Computer-aided verification

• Scanning electron microscope

• In-circuit testing (ICT)

• Boundary scans

As manufacturing technologies continue to improve and become more precise, the demand for consistent quality in manufactured products has paved the way for greater innovation. For more than a decade, Jabil has offered cutting tool solutions for advanced manufacturing in a variety of machining materials, including mold steel, stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and plastics. Our team specializes in the development of CNC cutter tools to support markets that rely on consistent, high-quality products, like semiconductor manufacturing, defense and aerospace, and healthcare.