3-Dimensional Services Group

The 3-Dimensional Services Group is comprised of 3-Dimensional Services, Urgent Plastic Services and Urgent Design & Manufacturing. All three companies are full-service engineering, design and rapid prototyping firms that specialize in producing prototype parts and low-volume production runs for industries such as military, automotive, furniture, medical, communication, biomedical research, energy, household appliances, packaging and toys. 


Embracing and utilizing the most current technologies available, the group provides customers with capabilities to bring your designs to reality. 


Company History Highlights


+ Company founded in 1992. Started with five employees.


+ One of the first applications of laser systems was cutting 3/8_x0094_ thick armor plate for law enforcement vehicles.


+ In cooperation with Michigan State University, company developed and manufactured portable natural grass playing surfaces in 1992 for use at indoor World Cup soccer matches. Product is designated Turfbox Pallet More... System. From concept to completion, over 1,000,000 pounds of steel were processed in three months.


 + 1995 expansion doubled floor space. Additional equipment included expanded machining and laser processing capabilities plus forming systems. Employment increased to over 150 people.


 + Shortly after expansion, ceiling was raised and foundation set to accommodate acquisition of 7000 ton stamping press, joining a host of other, varying capacity presses and press brakes.


 + Achieved ISO 9001 certification in only eight months, approximately half the average time for design and manufacturing firms.


 + 1997 formed Urgent Plastic Services to handle prototyping plastic components.


 + Achieved QS-9000 compliant certification in August 1998. 


 + Formed Urgent Design & Manufacturing in 2000, a full-service engineering, design and rapid prototyping firm with specialty in assembly and fabrication/ forming.


 + 2004 facilities expansion to bring the total to over 250,000 sq.ft. of prototype and low volume production capability and capacity with over 250 employees.


 + Established European office in 2005 to service extended global market.


 + 2023 established South American office.

Mentco, Inc.

Mentco Inc. is a Texas based contract manufacturer, importer & distributor catering exclusively to OEMs. We offer a low cost solution from our machining facility based in Mumbai, India.


All our customers choose Mentco Inc. for the following:


Cost Savings: We routinely save our customers 25% - 50% over domestic suppliers.


Turnkey Solution: In addition to in-house machining, Mentco will manage the entire process from sourcing and procuring raw material all the way to export packaging and logistics.


Product Reliability: Mentco is highly experienced in maintaining traceability requirements all the way from production through documentation and shipping.


Experience: Over 60 years of manufacturing experience.


Supplier Network: Long standing relationships with "A" Players in India for supply of bar stock, forgings, castings as well as outside processes for manufacturing. We create a predictable, recurring process with on-time deliveries and quality assurance all the way down the supply chain in More... India.


 Delivery: Mentco utilizes a combination of ocean freight, air freight and courier services to have product available to our customers to meet their demand and their inventory metrics. We offer Kanban Programs both from our location in Mumbai or our warehouse in San Antonio, TX.


 Credibility: Excellent references for our ability to deliver quality products on time. Our customers include Fortune 500 corporations.


 Confidentiality: We are incorporated in the State of Texas which allows for binding NDAs and confidentiality agreements.


 Communication/Customer Service: We are based in San Antonio, TX with business hours in the same time zone as most of our customers.


 Outside Processes and Third Party Testing: Including annealing, anodizing, electroplating, passivation, die penetrant testing, ultrasonic testing, Positive Material Identification (PMI) and many others based on our customer requirements.


 Best Practices: Engineering, Project Managers, Programming, Operations, Quality Assurance and Logistics personnel onsite.

Protocast/John List Corp.

Since 1966, Protocast-JLC (John List Corporation) provided prototype and production investment castings and CNC machining services for the aerospace, medical, communications, defense and commercial markets. Both nonferrous and ferrous metals. Special processes are handled by an extensive list of NADCAP approved 3rd party sources. Protocast - JLC is ITAR registered and AS9100 certified. All parts are produced in the USA.

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Barron Industries

Founded in 1983, Barron Industries manufactures high-precision investment castings, rapid prototypes, machined components, and complete assemblies. An AS9100D certified company, Barron is also NADCAP certified for digital radiography, penetrant testing and welding; as well as GE yellow pages approved. With comprehensive single-source capability, Barron offers complete turnkey manufacturing of components for aerospace, defense, automotive, oil and gas, nuclear, medical, and other commercial industries. Barron provides concept-to-completion development and production of investment casting projects from a few ounces to 150 pounds. Precision cast parts are machined, assembled, plated, painted, tested, part-marked, barcode-labeled and securely packaged for shipping. All capabilities are located in-house. Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys poured include class II armor, stainless steels, tool steels, aluminum, cobalt, and copper-nickel alloys.

The Casting Company, Inc.

3 AXIS Development, Inc.

We specialize in Rapid Prototyping/Additive Manufacturing and Short Run Rapid Manufacturing


In these changing economic times we may be facing the requirement to do more with less. 


3Axis Development, Inc. offers you access to a single source buying option that can support their program efforts. The 3Axis Development team has grown as a service company by gauging the marketplace and delivering programs that fit your manufacturing requirements in our current domestic and global economy.

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Suppliers of Metal Working and Other Machines: Investment casting with AS9100 and ISO 9001 Certification

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