Case Study: Dixon Valve achieves 30x cost savings and 14x faster retooling with Markforged

Dixon Valve - Customer Case Study

Dixon Valve needed durable, chemically resistant end-of-arm tooling jaws that could withstand repeated clamping and exposure to corrosive fluids while keeping lead times short. Working with Markforged, Dixon Valve used a Markforged Mark Two printer and Onyx material to prototype and produce composite jaws that meet their chemical-resistance and durability requirements and can be retooled on a next‑day timeline.

Markforged’s solution—3D printing the jaws in Onyx on the Mark Two—eliminated the need to outsource or machine most grippers, delivering dramatic savings: 30x cost reduction and 14x faster turnaround, with fabrication time reduced from 144 to 9 hours (93% faster) and cost from $290 to $9 (97% cheaper). The printed jaws remain robust enough to move thousands of stainless steel couplings and passed Dixon Valve’s chemical-resistance qualification, proving Markforged’s impact on speed, cost, and tooling performance.

Dixon Valve

J.R. Everett

System Engineer