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Carl Dekker: Founder, President & Owner
At Met-L-Flo, Inc. they have been asked on more than one occasion about their unique name. “Wait, don’t you do plastics” Yes, they work in plastic and metal. What you may not know is Met-L-Flo Engineering was founded in 1969 as a consulting firm for the metal forging industry. Carl Dekker, their current President, introduced Additive Manufacturing
in 1991 and the services they offered exploded. The consulting side of the business branched off and Met-L-Flo, the service bureau, was born.
Over the years their service offerings have continued to grow. Today they create parts in a wide variety of processes such as Additive (3D Printing) in SLA, SLS, FDM, Direct Metal and Polyjet. They also cast in urethanes, elastomers, silicones, and metals. Met-L-Flo offers Rotational Molding/Casting, Fiber Reinforced Plastics, Composites, and Vacuum/Thermo Forming parts as well. Many of their processes perfectly bridge the gap between custom prototypes and production. They offer Low Volume Injection Molding and Bridge Tooling in a wide variety of materials—putting end use product in your hands well before production parts are available.
