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dixonvalve.com100 Years of Uncommon Excellence
™
Dixon Innovation center opened 2012.
"
As
long as we focus on people, product and service, everything else will fall into place
and we will achieve
uncommon excellence
."
- R.L. Goodall, CEO
challenges back to the Innovation Center, where Dixon
engineers welcome the challenge of coming up with
creative solutions. To support their work, the center
houses technologically advanced machine tools, testing
equipment and computer-aided design using SolidWorks
modeling and simulation. In addition, the Innovation
Center conducts training sessions for Dixon distributors
and end-users in a large, interactive training facility
suitable for serving groups up to 50 people.
In recent years, the energy market has become a
key area of focus at Dixon. The company has developed
and acquired products that fit into every level of the
petrochemical lifecycle: Boss
™
Low Pressure System
products for exploration, bellows seal valves for
refineries, and API valves and dry disconnects for the
terminals. Additionally, Dixon has also expanded its
offering in the food and beverage industry to include
pumps and valve actuation.
Today, a century after Dixon’s founding, the
company continues to promote the perfect blend of
core hose accessories and solutions-based engineered
products—a strategy that effectively positions Dixon to
be a world leader in fluid transfer solutions.
What does the future hold for Dixon? Grace predicts
continued growth and reinvestment in the company's
infrastructure. "What's more," he says, "we'll continue to
focus on North American manufacturing, which is very
important to us, and we'll continue to innovate
ever-more sophisticated ways to manufacture, mostly
through automation."
CEO R.L. Goodall emphasizes the importance of
staying focused on the company's founding mission—
the mission his grandfather set out back in 1916. "We
know about manufacturing hose couplings. We must
continue to be the best at that," Goodall says. "As long
as we focus on people, product and service, everything
else will fall into place and we will achieve uncommon
excellence."
DIXON FACTS:
Number of North American
manufacturing jobs
792
2,800
small
parcel
shipments
per day
to
US
customers
of orders
ship same day
97%
More than
million AM6's
sold
since the 1920's
28
employees
worldwide
1,662
Dixon
Driller
published years
98
930
customers trained in a
Dixon Academy Workshop
since 2014