Capabilities · Lakeland, Florida
Cut. Formed.
Machined. Staged.

Four Service Lines. One Floor. Zero Handoffs.

High-definition plasma cutting, heavy plate forming, multi-axis CNC machining, and production staging — sequenced under one roof, on one work order, with one company answering for the result.

Why one roof

Every handoff is a place your tolerance can go missing.

Most metal work in Florida gets done in relay. A service center cuts the plate. Somebody else forms it. A third shop machines the holes. A fourth cleans it up. Every leg of that relay adds a queue, a freight leg, an invoice — and one more opportunity for a part to drift a few thousandths off the print.

DEC Metals collapses the relay. Cutting, beveling, forming, machining, deburring, and staging all happen in the same building, on the same job number, checked at each handoff rather than at the end. When something needs adjusting mid-run, it gets adjusted — not renegotiated across three vendors and two weeks.

The practical result: fewer suppliers to manage, a lead time that's ours to control rather than ours to pass along, and one phone number to call when a schedule moves.

Every operation below is quoted, run, and staged in-house. No brokered secondary operations. No third-party lead times layered on top of ours.
A job, end to end

What “one floor” looks like on an actual work order.

Take a structural bracket in ¾" plate, five hundred pieces, bevelled for a full-penetration weld and machined for a bolt pattern.

Relay version. The service center cuts it flat and ships it. A fab shop bevels the edges by hand — inconsistently, because hand grinding is inconsistent. A machine shop drills the pattern, working from the bevelled part rather than the original datum. Three queues, two freight legs, and a stack-up of tolerance nobody owns. Six weeks if everyone behaves.

DEC version. One work order. The plate is cut and bevelled in a single thermal operation, so the bevel is a machine feature rather than a grinder's opinion. It moves to machining referenced off the same datum. It's deburred, cleaned, counted, and kitted. It leaves ready to weld.

Same part. One vendor, one datum, one schedule — and one company to call if any of it is wrong.

Once real capacity figures are confirmed with the shop, this section gets rewritten with DEC's actual thickness range, tonnage and lead time.
How we quote

Send the print. Get a number.

01

Send it.

Drawings, a cut list, or a bill of materials — DXF, DWG, STEP, or a marked-up PDF all work.

02

We price it in-house.

Against our own floor and our own capacity, which is the only reason we can commit to a date and mean it.

03

You get a number and a date.

Both real. We don't quote lead times we can't hold.

04

Not a fit? We say so.

On the first call rather than the third week.

What we don't do

The work we turn down.

We don't do walk-in retail, single-piece orders, or general job-shop fabrication. We're a B2B processing operation built around repeat volume and scheduled production.

That filter isn't posturing. Every one-off order that jumps the queue is a delay for a customer who committed to a schedule with us — so protecting capacity for the shops running real volume is part of the service.

Start a job

Four lines. One number to call.

Send drawings, a cut list or a bill of materials and our estimators will quote the whole sequence as one number and one date.