California Metal-X (CMX) is a privately owned corporation; originally known as Metal Briquetting Company (MBC) in 1979. The founders still share in the day to day business activity and growth of CMX. We value and take pride in our personnel, the greatest asset we have. CMX management has always recognized “Quality and Excellence” go hand in hand with its “People, Products, and Process.” CMX has a robust dedication to excellence which can be measured by its attitude, service and quality.
MBC initially processed and compressed brass chips/turnings into briquettes, promoting a product that yields greater efficiency and recoveries for brass foundries. With additional research MBC and CMX developed and manufactured “Mechanical Ingot,” an innovative product that offers cost savings over cast ingot. CMX produces and ships millions of pounds of Mechanical Ingot.
In the 1980s CMX began as a warehouse distributor of brass & bronze ingot on the West Coast. Major capital investments were made in the late 80s adding electric furnaces for manufacturing the CMX brand of brass & bronze ingot and engineered alloys. By the 90s our well established business added a rotary smelting furnace, giving us greater capacity in the production of red metals, brasses, and other bronzes. CMX currently has production capacity of more than 36,000,000 pounds annually.

Services

California Metal-X is a world class manufacturer of brass & bronze foundry ingot and provides many important services for our customers. CMX has two expert foundry consultants available, and a staff with more than 200 years of total foundry experience. We are ready to share our expertise and knowledge in technical, metallurgical, environmental, and general foundry practice issues. Contact our QA staff or management today if you require assistance.
CMX has an experienced professional staff that can assist you in providing technical help with alloys and metallurgical trouble shooting. Our complete lab facilities are available to identify samples, metal defects, or special chemistries. We are able to use both spectrograph and ICP methods.
Our experienced foundry staff can also manufacture your proprietary alloy requirements. Contact our management or QA staff, and we will work with your engineers to deliver your special alloy specifications. Special packaging, identification, and handling is not a problem.